Harrison Bergeron Equalizer

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Diana-Moon Glampers, or as other people call her, the handicapper general has defeated the world’s most intelligent and athletic man, in the year 2081. Harrison Bergeron was killed by Diana-Moon Glampers. His annihilation was caused by a one pull of the trigger of Diana’s double barreled shotgun, and it spurted out its lethal bullets. Collapsed in ease, Harrison plummeted to demise. This tragic death was caught on live television news, where millions of people are watching. Of course, his parents, George and Hadley Bergeron, saw his own son get shot without hesitation. It should be sad to watch their own son die, especially when it is shown directly into their eyes. In contrast, Diana bets that his parents are stupid enough to forget everything …show more content…
In all of her ideas, only one of them stood out to her and probably was the most realistic idea of them all. That idea was to make machines that would eventually be distributed all across the globe. She would call them “Equalizer”. There would be different types of Equalizers with different purposes. For a young girl, she is amazing at programming, which will help her create the Equalizers. She might have gotten this talent from her parents since they work for a company that produces electronics. In order to start making the Equalizers, Diana had to list different types of Equalizers. This is what she got: People who are smarter, people who are stronger, people who are handsome or pretty, people with better eyesight, and people who are shorter. She thought that making the Equalizer for the people who are smarter is interesting. She started on it right away. This type of Equalizer’s purpose was to make people lose their train of thought by making loud and sounds that will capture one’s attention. Think back to her parents, her parents made a lot of electronics for the company, such as phones, headphones, earphones, and computers. That would give her a head start. When she got one of these electronics, she would already have a model that is already built and she would need to do only one task. She just needed to reprogram it. Diana thought that earphones would be the best since it is small, light, portable, and people can easily hear it. So, she stole one of her parent’s earphone prototypes that they brought home. It was an easy task for her, since she steals all the time. Most of her theft act was a success. Re-programming the earphone would be the hardest of task. It took her a while to program her first prototype. She spent hundreds of hours trying to make it function correctly as she wanted it to be. It kept making random noises every second that is loud as an elephant trumpeting. After countless

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