In this year 2017 everyone is equal and i think is better like that because people get to learn new things from others. A theme that will go along with the story will be “In a perfect society not everything is and dont have to be perfect ” which is presented on Harrison Bergeron story. Harrison Bergeron is a story by Kurt Vonnegut,J.R that is told in the future in the year 2081 where everyone was handicapped so like that they could all be equal.
In the beginning of the story there's a conflict between Harrison Bergeron and a smart boy who got some good skills against the government that makes everyone equal by handicapping them. Harrison constantly outgrows his handicaps faster than the government can create them …show more content…
Hazel tells George that she thinks she looks tired she says “All of a sudden you look so tired. why do you stretch out on the sofa you can rest your handicap bag on the pillow honeybunch”. “Go rest the bag for a little while. I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while”. “You been so tired lately kind of wore out if there was just some way we could make a little hole in the bottom of the bag, and just take out a few of them lead balls. Just a few”. George responds by ‘saying 2 years in prison and $2,000 fine for every ball I took out. I don't call that a bargain”. In that part it shows that the more intelligent George, Of many intellectual handicaps still can reason better than his wife who isn't handicapped.The wife tries to persuade him and convince him that he should take off his handicaps for a while and rest. Through that part people can learn that even in this handicap society of EQuAlity not everyone is truly equal. If everyone was equal George Wouldn't have been able to make a more correct reasoning than other people and choose different actions based on knowledge and reason. Once again this also proves that not everything in society is