Friday, September 18, 2009

Harrison Burgeron, by Kurt Vonnegut; fiction, pgs. 1-9

It was 2081, and everybody was finally equal, although it wasn't what it seemed. Everybody except for a few people wore handicaps. One day, two people, one named George, with a handicap, and another with no handicap, named Hazel, were watching ballerina's on the television together, and talked about them, how one specific one was good, and beautiful. When it came to the news in the studio, it all happened. They were talking about a man that carried 300 pounds of scrap metal on his back, named Harrison Bergeron. They said," if you see this man, do not try to reason with him". Then, coincidentally Harrison Bergeron showed up, Everyone was screaming, then he ripped the door off its hinges, and said,"I am the emperor, you hear me, I am the Emperor!!!!!!". Then he stomped on the ground and made the ground shake. This is where it gets weird, he chose his empress, which was a ballerina, and they all started dancing to music, and became one with it. Then, the handicap general came in with a 10 gauge double-barrel shotgun and killed the empress. She demanded they all put on their handicaps, and that's where the TV went out. George and Hazel said it was a doozy, and that's the end of the story.


I thought this story was so completely random. It was hard to tell where exactly they were, but it was really funny. I thought the whole story was really random because at the end, they all just suddenly danced for no apparent reason. It was just completely unexpected. I don't really understand the moral of the story though. Anyways, that's pretty much all I have to say.


consternation: great agitation, dismay, or fear.

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