Harrison Bergeron

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Prereading: What is eternity?

Eternity is the whole big picture of time, it never ends.


Plot/Reaction:

1. who is harrison bergeron?
The son of George and Hazel bergeron, a rebel against the 2081 Government.

2. how does harrison challenge the government's handicap program?
Harrison is extremely gifted, making it hard for the government to disable him. He also says he's done with the government.

Questions: 2 questions you have
1. Whats the point of the weights?
2. Could this actually happen?

Quote: one significant quote that reveals something important.

"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a grackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."

This gives a basic idea of what the government is like at this point in itme.


E-book page 21

Some Handicaps:
Masks
Radio Transmitter
sandbags/birdshot
chains
hardsire
red rubber nose
shaved eyebrows
speech impediments



Plot Line
Exposition: Harrison is in Jail, parents are disabled, its 2081 and everyone is equal

Rising Action: Harrison breaks out, he's on tv, he say's hes the emporer, diana walks in

Climax: Harrison is shot

Falling actino tv turns of, hazel and george dont remember it,


Quote Sandwich

Claim: The community at this point in time is very unfair, and communist.

He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good – no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.