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often make things seem more perfect than they really are. Kurt Vonnegut shows that perfection on the surface isn’t always true, and it can be hard to make sense of that. In the story “2BRO2B” Kurt Vonnegut develops the theme that surface perfection isn’t always real through the elements external conflict and setting. Vonnegut uses setting to display surface perfection through the painting and the utopia. In the beginning of the story, Kurt makes the audience think that this world is perfect and…

Bergeron" "The worst form of equality is to take unequal things and make them equal, " is a quote by the well known Aristotle. This statement can also be a theme found in the story "Harrison Bergeron.”Written by Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a dystopian universe. Kurt Vonnegut seems to want to get across his point of equality not been for the best when taking too far. In "Harrison Bergeron", the idea of equality is taken out of perspective. We see the possible effects of…

Journal Entry #9 September 12, 2014 Topic: My reading since September 2nd Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut – pp.275 (Book finished) Slaughterhouse-Five is an antiwar satire following Billy Pilgrim, a former World War II veteran who has become “unstuck in time.” The novel has a nonlinear narrative, constantly jumping between Billy’s war time, pre-war, and post-war experiences as he lives the events of his life over and over again. The plot mainly focuses around the war and Billy’s…

1. The fact that the government had added 213 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution shows us they they got really serious about rules, what you can and can not do, and very serious about making everyone equal. 2. The narrator says that Georges ¨thought fled in panic like danits¨ it pretty much is saying that his thoughts just go all over the place and he can't ever quite remember what he was thinking about. 3.In the story for people that need to be handicapped because of the way they look or how…

Imagine a world where people lived to be 200, and where in order to have children someone would have to volunteer to die. In the text 2BRO2B by Kurt Vonnegut, this is the society people live in. Vonnegut made it easy for the reader to see the painter makes his own guilt in anger. In this short story we see that the painter isn’t proud of his worker. IN the text it says “You think I’m proud of this daub?” Which the order responds, “You're a gloomy old duck, aren't you?” These two times shew…

Harrison Bergeron Paper Harrison Bergeron is a story about equality and total government control. No one is allowed to be different from each other in anyway. People have to wear handicaps so that everyone is the same height, speed, and even amount of beauty. The author is trying to say that total equivalence is dangerous. People not being able to think about thoughts more than 20 seconds, very talented individuals throughout the story are held back by handicaps like the ballerinas, and people…

think any better than anyone else. You are forced to wear weights so that you are not faster or more athletic than them. You even have to wear a mask to hide your face if you are considered attractive. This is the society that Harrison resides in, in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” Harrison is the smartest, the strongest, the best. He does not want to hide himself. He wants to be able to show who he is and how much he can do. He creates an uprising with few people. When he…

One of the main themes of Cat's Cradle is the role of religion on people. Vonnegut concerns himself with the idea that religion is a means to restore optimism to a world damaged by the cold truths of science and reality. A good example of this is the religion of Bokononism in San Lorenzo. When telling about past of this religion, Julian Castle explains, "when it became evident that no governmental or economic reform was going to make the people much less miserable, the religion became the one…

society. There is gender equality, economic equality, and political equality, among others. While people consider the favorable aspects of an equal nation, they tend to disregard the severe limitations. In a story called “Harrison Bergeron,” the author, Kurt Vonnegut, does just that. He portrays the several negative effects of equality that are overlooked by many. Like Vonnegut described in “Harrison Bergeron,” forced equality wastes potential, makes human life pointless, and turns people…

In his story, “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., mirrors major governmental ideas displayed during the Cold War. The three major ideas that are most evident are oppressive dictatorship, suppression of personal opinion, abilities, and beliefs, and the governmental system of communism. The government in the story “Harrison Bergeron,” was run by Diana Moon Glampers, known as the Handicapper General. She was very iron-fisted, in a sense that she had the authority, and if one disobeyed her,…