The short story “Harrison Bergeron” by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. typifies the characteristics commonly associated with dystopian literature. In the exposition of the story, Vonnegut creates an “imaginative universe” (ReadWriteThink 1). First, the reader is introduced to a governmental agent known as the “United States Handicapper General” (Vonnegut 1) and the how there have been the “211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the Constitution” (1). Since a “Handicapper General” (1) is a fictitious governmental position and the number amendments to the Constitutions makes it a document that readers are no longer familiar with, these attributes distance the world of the story from that of the reader’s. While the reader is introduced to the supporting