Similarities Between A Worn Path And Harrison Bergeron

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A strong emotion usually exists when a baby separates from their mother due to their separation anxiety. Emotion influences our behavior and seems to control our actions every moment. A Worn Path and Harrison Bergeron have similarities using emotion as the stimulatory factor to convey both story and develop the characters. Emotions by oneself or the society either help or destroy a person’s well-being by contributing to the choices they made.
In both of the stories, emotion leads the main characters to achieve their goals by enduring through difficulties and showing courage. In A Worn Path, the main character, Phoenix Jackson, has a grandson who swallowed lye and she has to get a medication for him in the town very far away from where they live. Phoenix’s love for her grandson has driven her to walk the path to the …show more content…

In A Worn Path, a hunter pointed a gun at Phoenix giving her a sense of fear which may have stopped her from pursuing her goal. Another occurrence attempts to prevent Phoenix to get the medication she needed when the attendant gave her an unwelcoming emotion which may have lowered her dignity and caused her to leave. Many people in our society abandon their dreams because they feel that it would lower their dignity if people judge what they choose to do. In the other story, Harrison Bergeron, envy had encouraged the society to pass such laws that limited the people with more advantages like intelligence, strength, and good looks which the main character possessed. When Harrison and the ballerina died, the handicapper general also used fear in order to keep the situation of equalizing people by aiming the gun to the people who took off their handicaps as well. Similar in today’s society of some parts of the world, the people use the concept of “fear” in order to prevent women from practicing their basic human

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