John Scott Harrison

because there are no loose ends, but that isn’t how it works. The narrator's flaws build the story, it leaves room for the mind to wander on it’s own without being told everything. In three stories we have read this year, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Harrison Bergeron”, and “The Sniper”, all have had narrator flaws and unexpected jaw dropping moments, but that builds the story into a fascinating story. All three of these stories have flawed narrators that build the story in their own way, by not…

I read the novella “Flatland” by Edwin Abbot. It tells a story of a land that is completely two dimensional. There is two parts to this novella. The first part is all about the world Flatland, and the different characteristics of this world. The second part of the book is about A Square (the narrator of the novella) traveling to three other worlds that he has never imagined before. There are some main characteristics you have to know to be able to understand flatland. If you set a penny on a…

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…

be like if you got the threw rocks at people or you lived in a world where people weren’t really alive, they were just doing their job with no care. People seem like they’re dead. That wouldn’t be the best society to live in would it? In the book, Harrison Bergeron, people had to be equal in order to have the perfect utopian like society. In another book, The Lottery, was about people who would be thrown at by rocks (if you received the card with the dot on it). The dot symbolizes death or bad…

issue. One’s purpose in life can be found by maintaining an ideology and expanding on it. This can be supported by the characters of three different literature pieces. Meursault in The Stranger, the narrator in The Invisible Man, and Harrison in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” each exemplify having ideologies and becoming who they are meant to be by following their ideas. Though Meursault is not one for truly believing in something, his ideas about life still show how he demonstrates an…

shine a LIGHT...so that AT LAST, ALL THE WORLD CAN SEE!’” (Tuttle 2009). This quote creates a huge change in the main character than we see in the short story “Harrison Bergeron.” In both the short story “Harrison Bergeron” and the movie “2081” there are many similarities and differences. One similarity that stood out to me was that Harrison announces a speech on television in both the short story and movie. In contrast to Harrison’s speech found in both the short story and movie, there is a…

What is it like to live with constant restraint and no higher knowledge? Those in Anthem and “Harrison Bergeron” could tell the experience. In both pieces, everyone in the society is considered “equal” ;however, the governments in both dystopias only make it seem that way when, in reality, equality is not achieved in the way they hoped. The novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is similar to “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut, because both stories evince complacency to laws, evince opposition to rules…

Kurt Vonnegut’s imaginary dystopia depicted in his short story “Harrison Bergeron” is a perversion of the equality principle in that it pushes equality to an unfounded extreme—an extreme that crushes personal freedom. In this paper, I will argue that in “Harrison Bergeron” the equality principle is taken to mean the deprivation and literal handicapping of the privileged, while in reality the pursuit of equality is taken to mean the elevation of the underprivileged. In order to prove my thesis,…

The “Doctor Who Theme Song” was constructed by an Australian composer named Ron Grainer in 1963. The “Doctor Who Theme Song” was realized by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This song is one of the first electronic theme songs for television. The theme song was originally written in an E Minor. The current “Doctor Who Theme Song” is arranged by Murray Gold. Doctor Who is a British television show about a time lord (currently played by Peter Capaldi as the 12th doctor) who…

to accomplish this would be for the political power (i.e. the government) at hand to invent a means that impeded on any one individual’s advantage in society, whether it be intelligence, beauty, creativity, etc.. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron”,…