Indledning
The short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is happening in the future, in 2081 to be correct. It Is about a new way of looking at the societies challenges by not everybody being handled equally. People here are finally equal after many years of nonequality.
The society have made a law so nobody stands out, just like describe in (L:2-2, P:1) “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else.
Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” To explain this, it means that when a child is born, and grows up and people discover that this is a very beautiful child, society gives the child an ugly mask
or some bags full of heavy weight they have to carry around everywhere, so the amount of prettiness they are born with, gets turned down so they seem uglier.
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Uddrag
The third protagonist is Harrison Bergeron who we hear about in the television that Hazel and Georg are watching. Harrison has been put in jail, and has now gotten out, so everyone is being told to take care if they see this man running loose around town.
Hazel sees Harrison in the tv. But do not exactly recognize him, this is because she can only think in short bursts, and cannot remember that her child got taken away from her.
She starts crying because something in her mind remembers him, but when Georg asks her why she is crying, she cannot tell, because she does not know.
"You been crying" he said to Hazel.
"Yup, " she said.
"What about?" he said.
"I forget," she said. "Something real sad on television."
"What was it?" he said.
"It's all kind of mixed up in my mind," said Hazel.” (L:14-19, P:5).
In the television that hazel is watching Harrison comes into the hall, and starts taking off his baggage, and mask. He is described as this:
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