Reflection Paper On Harrison Bergeron

Last week we received two short stories on Tuesday and I noticed that I already read one of the stories in high school “Harrison Bergeron” which I am sick of analyzing because I read it in three different classes trying to take a new look/ perspective at each occasion I read it for class discussion. However, I read it again and this time I was not feeling like I could really find anything new to pique my interest I read it thinking about how a five-page story is not enough to get me thinking on a deeper level. Even though the story is relatively interesting with the concept pertaining to a dystopian future where the idea of equality is not pleasant.
However, as I observed in class when we went over it all that our class thought of was what …show more content…
Then on the other hand in Sonny Blues we are given a little too much information on the characters and how they think and behave that although the messages and themes of the short are present and there are several more provided than in Harrison Bergeron given that there is more to digest than just a quick description and brief backstory on characters giving focus to the events that unfold in real time while most of Sonny Blues is a flashback giving us a history on the relation between Sonny and his brother along with history on their parents and the kind of childhood they had. I’m not trying to say that you won't find a clear message in Sonny Blues just that because of the length and amount of background information that there are several arguments that can be made and several ways to analyze it but we lack concrete evidence to truly disprove other