Harrison Bergeron Essay The short story “Harrison Bergeron” takes place in 2081 in the United States. Everyone and everything is now equal due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments of the US constitution. People are required to be equal people callee handicapper generals assign handicaps and manage them to make sure no one takes them off. The story is about a 14 year old boy named Harrison, and his parents Hazel and George. It was a bad month for George and Hazel there son Harrison was taken to jail. Harrison escapes jail one day and threatens the system by saying that he is the emperor and needs an empress and he ripped off his handicaps. After that he is shot down by a handicapper general. The author has the handicapper general kill …show more content…
This shows why the author killed Harrison because they didn't want him to get away with taking off his handicaps and challenging the system. Then if he did more people would do it and they would go back to the dark ages. This shows the cost of an equal society for citizens. Another example of a cost of an equal society is the handicaps Harrison has on. Harrison was apparently under handicapped according to the government. He wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and thick spectacles that made him half blind and gave him big headaches. He was so good-looking they had to handicaps for his looks. He had to wear a red rubber ball on his nose at all times, he also had to shave his eyebrows off, and cover his white teeth with black caps. Nobody had ever worn heavier handicaps than Harrison. These examples were Harrison’s cost to an equal society. A final example of the cost of an equal society is when Diana Moon Glampers the handicapper general shot Harrison after he was dancing. Glampers shot Harrison because Harrison threatened to take over the government and he tore off all his physical and mental handicaps. At that moment he was so much more at an unfair advantage than everybody else Glampers had to shoot Harrison because Harrison broke the laws of the land, the laws of gravity, and the laws of motion. In the end Harrison payed the price of equality in