Doesn’t it drive you crazy when people tell you what to do and you can’t do anything about it or you’ll get in trouble. Well in this story you get shot. In this story, ” Harrison Bergeron “, a brave young man fights for his freedom against the over controlling government. This fascinating story written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. kept me interested throughout the whole story. He tied it all together with interesting ideas that’ll keep you interested to.
I found that the government is completely unfair. They gave people who were better than the average person and gave them handicaps. These handicaps limited beauty, strength, and intelligence. While the common people have to wear the handicaps, the government doesn’t wear the handicaps themselves making it unfair to everyone else. To top it all off, they shot Harrison Bergeron with no hesitation at all. After reading all this, I thought that the government was unfair because it meant that they are more capable than the common folk.
Personally I feel pretty bad for Harrison Bergeron. First of all, he was arrested, put in jail, and taken away from his parents. Second of all, he had to wear more handicaps than anyone could imagine. Because of his brute size, he had handicaps completely different than everyone else. He wore …show more content…
One of which is that Harrison Bergeron took control of everything as soon as he got there. What I mean by this is that he declared himself the emperor, the ruler of everyone. He was also very demanding of everyone around him, commanding the musicians to play and one ballerina to be his empress. To my last point, he seemed in a sense ignorant because he announced that he was the best saying that he was most capable over all the other people in the society. What i’m getting at is that there would in a sense be no improvement in society if his plan had succeeded therefore leading to the fact of him all by himself creating a monarchy in which he had ultimate
I found that the government is completely unfair. They gave people who were better than the average person and gave them handicaps. These handicaps limited beauty, strength, and intelligence. While the common people have to wear the handicaps, the government doesn’t wear the handicaps themselves making it unfair to everyone else. To top it all off, they shot Harrison Bergeron with no hesitation at all. After reading all this, I thought that the government was unfair because it meant that they are more capable than the common folk.
Personally I feel pretty bad for Harrison Bergeron. First of all, he was arrested, put in jail, and taken away from his parents. Second of all, he had to wear more handicaps than anyone could imagine. Because of his brute size, he had handicaps completely different than everyone else. He wore …show more content…
One of which is that Harrison Bergeron took control of everything as soon as he got there. What I mean by this is that he declared himself the emperor, the ruler of everyone. He was also very demanding of everyone around him, commanding the musicians to play and one ballerina to be his empress. To my last point, he seemed in a sense ignorant because he announced that he was the best saying that he was most capable over all the other people in the society. What i’m getting at is that there would in a sense be no improvement in society if his plan had succeeded therefore leading to the fact of him all by himself creating a monarchy in which he had ultimate