Harrison Bergeron Essay

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In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, which explains the life of Harrison Bergeron. Harrison Bergeron is the antagonist of the story because he is the main character. An antagonist is the someone who is hostile to someone or something. The story is told in third person point of view. Third person point of view is when the author uses pronouns, such as he, she, it or they. The story describes how equality can not happen even by setting the story in the future. The author uses satire to explain how to persuade the reader how difficult equality is. In the story, you will see how equality can change a person’s view on the government.
Harrison Bergeron was talking out of his household by the government. His mother Hazel, was intelligent and …show more content…

The hearing aid in the story basically controlled the people who were more intelligent than the others. If everyone is equal then how come everyone can not be themselves and just have the same rights as each other. You can not have people hide their intelligent because they could know something on how to fix the community. For example, there is this girl that is only in tenth grade and she is already taking college courses because she is very intelligent. She works hard so everyone knows that she is equal to everyone else in her grade but she can change the future for our generations. Also, you can not have people feel intelligent because they know the simple things. For example, there is this boy that is in college and he only knows the basic stuff that his school district taught him over and over. He has a hard time understanding how to write essays because they only taught him how to write a paragraph. We can blame the government because the girl should be able to move up and the boy should have gotten more information to succeed in life. The government should stop the no child left behind program because that is not helping the student learn how to work in college and in

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