Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut and Searching For Sunshine written by Joan Aiken are very similar, and different at different parts of each story. They both had similar time periods. In Harrison bergeron, their happiness was taken away by the government. In Searching For Sunshine, their happiness is taken away by the weather. In these stories, all the characters that are oppressed try to come out of the oppression from either the government, or weather. Some succeed, others fail, and get a consequence for trying to leave the oppression.
Harrison Bergeron is in 2081. Searching For Sunshine is around the year 2080. Both stories have terrible tragedies during their lifetime. In Harrison Bergeron, everyone has been made to be the same
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He broke out of the prison and went to his empress’ ballet show, where he showed the people that he was able to have freedom by taking off his weights, red nose, and headset: “He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder ”(43). That is also when his empress took off her weights, and mask. In Searching For Sunshine, everyone was trying to find sunlight even if it was only for a few minutes at a time: “ Every now and then they switched on their portable radio and listened to the forecast. Inverness had seen the sun for ten minutes yesterday, and Southend for five minutes this morning, but that was all” (68). The old lady, Mrs. Hatching, went all the way into the middle of nowhere so that she could find blue sky. These stories show that the only the thing people want is happiness. People will do anything possible to find it, whether it be travelling, or people. These stories have both been trying to find happiness, and get away from oppression. They have found it by different ways, in Harrison Bergeron was finding happiness through getting rid of the oppression of handicaps, and in Searching For Sunshine tried to find it by travelling all of the place to find blue sky, which was their