Kurt Lewin

“Nobody was smarter… nobody was better looking… nobody was stronger or quicker,”(Vonnegut 1) everyone was equal. All of this is achieved in the short science fiction, “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story is about a 14 year old boy named Harrison Bergeron who is beyond “normal” and how everyone who ever ‘above average’ have to wear handicaps. Handicaps prevent them from using certain abilities, it made people’s strongest abilities weaker. But, Bergeron is considered dangerous…

Films often portray the collective conscience of society. This perspective lends Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) a resonating voice in the film genre. By utilizing comedy, one of the most powerful tools in fiction, he created an exceptionally savage film. Kubrick’s political satire is a landmark film and one of the most significant pieces concerning the cold war. The film’s satirical spirit is every bit as caustic now as it was over…

it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds” (5). If anyone were to rebel, they would be killed. In the year 2081, everyone is equal in every single way. No one is better than anyone else. This is the short story, “Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.” Anyone with too much power is afraid of societys true intelligents. In this short story one of the conflict. Everyone must be equal so no uniqueness is acceptable. George, one of the characters, is extremely smart. The handicap…

Kurt Vonnegut helps create a futuristic idea of what the world could be like, and portrays it through his dystopian short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Using Irony, simile and personification, Vonnegut enlightens readers about how power isn’t always used properly and to spread a better idea and to show that misusing power with therefore leave society worse off. Several examples of this can be found in the short story, in an effort to create a “perfect society” they blindly follow certain practices…

to convince someone that your opinion is the right one to have? Would you burn someone’s opinion in a furnace? That is what Charles McCarthy did to a book that he did not want students in his school district to be reading. In response, the author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote a letter titled, I Am Very Real to McCarthy. In this letter, Vonnegut effectively persuades McCarthy that burning his books was un-American and wrong by using ethos, pathos, and logos. By appealing to pathos, Vonnegut makes…

Xayd Magana Period.2 Cat's Cradle Writing The novel Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is driven on the topic of wonder. Wonder is used by everybody at some point in their life. Many people wonder to find information, or just to pass time. Mentioned several times throughout the novel is the Cat's Cradle. From the beginning of the reading, throughout the novel, and even towards the end; there is a lot of talk over the silly game of Cat's Cradle. There is also a lot of talk over the bomb and Ice-Nice…

individuals in positions of power. Most societies view differences as an indisputable issue of mankind. Despite this, there are societies that do not tolerate differences and only view them as threatening to authority. In the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, people in positions of power employ the notion of inclusion…

belonging typically to a person, place or thing, and serve to identify it. There are three characters symbolized by The Mafia, a bitter writer and an advocate for children. Mob action is characterized by Paul Lazzaro in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut who is described as a polka dotted car thief from Cicero, Illinois (162). “Lazzaro said that he…

Understanding Slaughterhouse-Five’s Unique Structure Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five details the struggles of an American draftee and prisoner of war (POW), Billy Pilgrim. The story, partially based off of Vonnegut’s own experiences as a POW during World War II and the bombing of Dresden, takes a fantastic turn as Billy learns that he can travel through time. Yet, it is the lack of structure in Slaughterhouse-Five that sets this book apart from common anti-war or time-travel novels. The…

could observe the best and worst attributes are use these short stories to critic the behavior of humans to improve our negative aspects and show our positive side. The two short stories, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, and “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., both accurately depict the flaws and beauties of human nature. Through characterization, mood, and imagery, the best and worst attributes of human nature is presented in “The Lottery” and “Harrison Bergeron”. The selfish and…