Harrison Bergeron: Comparing The Book And The Movie

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Harrison Bergeron 2081 Compare and Contrast Analysis
One similarity between the text and the movie was that everyone was equal in every way. It was important that the filmmakers keep this in the movie because it’s the most important detail in the story. In the short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, it says, “They were equal in every which way. Nobody was smarter than everyone else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than everybody else” (1). If the filmmakers had never kept the equality part in 2081, the storyline would not make any sense. In the movie, everyone that needed handicaps had them including George, Harrison, and the ballerinas.
A difference between the movie and the text is that in the short story, Kurt Vonnegut makes Harrison seem more

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