Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote a futuristic story, ¨Harrison Bergeron¨, the characters are all ¨Equal every which way.¨ The year was 2081 and everybody in the Utopia claimed to be equal with one another. If you were above average in intelligence you were forced by the handicapped general to wear an earpiece to stop your train of thought, if you were athletic they would put weights on you so you can’t perform your best. In the text Harrison is viewed as a superior person that is so called better than everyone else, because of this the citizens of the Utopia see him as a threat because, they cannot change his extreme abilities to become more like everyone else.
As Kurt is writing the story he explains why everyone is equal. ¨Nobody was smarter than
As Kurt is writing the story he explains why everyone is equal. ¨Nobody was smarter than