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KURT VONNEGUT JR

• Born on November 11, 1992
• An American Writer
• lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union

SUMMARY

• It is the year 2081
• Everyone is equal, no one is smarter, or more attractive
• 14 year old Harrison is taking away from his family
• Television is very important and the government contrals it w/ handicaps
• Harrison is one of the few who still wants to work hard in life

Themes
Danger of Total Equality
&
The power of television

PLOT DIAGRAM

• Exposition= Harrison gets arrested for being "to awesome"
• Rising Action= Hazel starts thinking what she would change in her life
• Climax= Harrison escapes then gets shot on tv by handicap general
• Falling Action= when Hazel and George forget what happened to HB
• Resolution= there isn't one because nothing changed afterwards

MOOD

The setting is in middle America in the year of 2081

FORESHADOWING

DUE TO THE ENVIRONMENT MAN LOST HIS FREEDOM

LITERARY TERMS

• Metaphor= "There was a reveting gun in his head"
• Simile= "They leaped like the deer om the moon"

The connection between this story and the real world is everyone is different and you can't put a handicap on a person

WORK CITED

• http://www.shmoop.com/harrison-bergeron/literary-devices.html
• http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/harrison-bergeron/summary.html
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut