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Harrison Bergeron (2000)

by Kurt Vonnegut(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

review 1: I had to read this story for school and it was terrible. I felt like the characters were just a normal family and there was nothing special about them. This story seemed like it was written in 15 minutes and the author didn't care enough to finish the story so he just shot Harrison and the ballerina. It was like I don't feel like writing any more so bang bang the end. Overall this story just sucked and having to write an essay on it just made me hate it more!
review 2: Though I have read 'Harrison Bergeron' several times, every re-reading still evokes feelings of great outrage and provokes deep thought. It tells the story of a future America where all are rendered 'equal' by placing handicaps on those with various superior traits, such as masks for the beautifu... morel, ear radios to scramble the thoughts of the intelligent, weights around the necks of the physically strong. And yet their society is equal for none as the more skilled are given more burdens than the less skilled, given burdens merely because they were born better in that particular area. Mr. Vonnegut wrote 'Harrison Bergeron' to warn of a world where people try to make everywhere equal-- for such a world can never be without inequality resulting from such extreme measures. less

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