Justin Millerson

Mr. Young

ENG 4U1

18 September 2006

A Dire Society, a Dire Story

Natural curiosity leads people to make predictions on how their country

could be run in the future Whether they are good or bad predictions depends

entirely on the individual. Kurt Vonnegut the Writer in this story, describes what

his idea of the government in the Future would be. Harrison Bergeron is a short

story of a possible government ideology presented in everyday life in the year

2081. The ideology is presented in the United States, a non-communist country

in which this story's government is loosely based on. The philosophy of the

government demonstrates that all citizens in the country are of equal status in

everyway possible. This is controlled by "handicaps." Handicaps in this story are

attachments to your body that shade your advantage in anyway to the average

person. The author chose few characters and a short length to exhibit his......

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