Harrison Bergeron Descriptive Language

The year is 2081, this was the time when everyone was finally equivalent. “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anyone else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than everybody else.” In the short story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, uses descriptive language to show tension, suspense, and drama within this story. Vonnegut uses this tool to show the people's need for freedom from both the handicaps and the government. This reveals both the drama and suspense.
In the beginning, he uses this descriptive language to outline how the government has too much power. “Every twenty seconds or so the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.” This quote explains the relationship between the people and its government. It is as if the government has complete and utter control over them. Vonnegut describes the people to be “like bandits from a burglar alarm..” This symbolizes the people, and their ability to be called out on their irregular traits. “ George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his eyes.” This quote shows the pain that the people with handicaps go through. They are captives without thought.

Vonnegut also uses this descriptive language between the relationship of the people and the government.

“Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.” This tension and crisis leads the the attempt of the overthrow of government. Harrison is tired of being controlled and wants to be free, to use his mind freely. “ ‘even as I stand here’ he bellowed. ‘crippled, hobbled, sickened- I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived!’ “ Vonnegut uses this to show the tension that Harrison has against the government and its

handicaps.
Vonnegut uses this implement to further show the suspense and drama in the story. “It was the Diana Moon Glampers, the handicap general,came into the studio with a double barreled shotgun. She fired twice, and the emperor and the empress were dead before they hit the floor.” He uses such suspense into the text to further express this idea. Vonnegut describes the people's need for freedom from the government and the handicaps. Although the handicap is preventing the people to produce the idea of freedom. The people can not comprehend the idea of freedom.
In Harrison Bergeron, the author describes the people’s need for freedom. The very beginning shows how the government has too much power over the people. This leads to Harrison, he shows his need for freedom by rebelling against the handicap general. Although what many of the people saw on the television was tragic, they could not understand it. This leads the reader thinking about what will happen next. Will another brave soul rebel? Or will they just stand in the shadows and wait for a spark.