Comparison Of Harrison Bergeron And The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

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Have you ever read a book and noticed one key part that changed the direction of the entire story? In the story of Harrison Bergeron, one person’s brave and heroic efforts to rebel against government oppression, which resulted in the person being shot and killed, changed the course of the entire story by revealing a significant new truth. Similarly, in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, a boy living in an African village that did not consistently have access to electricity bravely and heroically tackled this challenge and changed the direction of the story by realizing a significant new truth that he could use wind to generate power and making it his mission to create a windmill to generate power for the community. Both Harrison Bergeron and The …show more content…

As a means of oppression, the state disabled the parents and caused them to barely be able to think or move. Observing the parents unable to comprehend or grieve their son’s death changes everything because, from this, we see how the characters in this story are so oppressed that they can’t even remember the death of their child. For example, after Harrison was killed by the government, his parents, Hazel and George, state, “‘You been crying?’ he said to Hazel. ‘Yup,’ she said, 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. ‘Forget sad things,’ said George.” (paragraphs 78-93). This shows that the characters are being subjected to oppression because we see that the parents are unable to process the death of their child due to having government-issued devices implanted into

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