Literary Analysis Collection: Harrison Bergeron

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Literary Analysis Collection 1 This is an essay about how the characters in all three stories “Harrison Bergeron,” “The most dangerous game,” and “Liberty” were fearless and didn’t care what the outcome was or what happened in the long run.
Most of the characters were fearless in “The most dangerous game,” “Harrison Bergeron,” and “Liberty.” In “the most dangerous game” Rainsford had to face being hunted. The characters were forced to do things they did not want to do. Some of them were so fearless they didn’t care what the outcome was. Some of the characters were arrogant like Rainsford when he knew he was going to win the most dangerous game. With “Harrison Bergeron” when he knew he was strong and didn’t care how he broke the law when he

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