Harrison Bergeron Rhetorical Analysis

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Irony is everywhere. We use it in our everyday speech as sarcasm. We see it in the shows and movies we watch. It is even in the books we read. In ""the Future of Luxury," "There Will Come Soft Rains," and "Harrison Bergeron" there is lots of irony to be found In "The Future of Luxury", the very things that we now take for granted, are what the author claims will become luxuries in the future. Among these are space and time. Both are things we all have, but how we chose to use them is going to greatly impact our mental and physical health. He claims that, soon, we will have to chose between the different luxuries and can never have all 6 that he mentions. In "Soft Rains," the irony is that a house, built by man, is serving a family that is not

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