Harrison Bergeron And Tequila Worm By Viola Canales

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A moment of truth can be like if I just applied for a job, and the moment of truth is if you get the job or not. Many stories and movies have examples of moments of truth, just like in The Hunger Games. In the texts Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonneggut, and Tequila Worm by Viola Canales, characters experience moments of truth that change their lives. In the story, Tequila Worm by Viola Canales, Sofia goes through a main event that has several effects on their life. In this story, Sofia is embarrassed to be Mexican and eat tacos at lunch. First, Coach Clarke offers to eat lunch with Sofia. “The next Monday, Coach Clarke stopped me in the hall. “Sofia, how about we eat lunch together in the cafeteria?” As a result, Sofia sat with Coach Clarke. Then Coach …show more content…

However, if Coach Clark never sat with her then Sofia would get bullied.So, she would keep eating tacos in her bag. Therefore, she would keep being embarrassed about her race. Consequently, she would be lonely with no friends for the rest of her school years. In the story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegg, Harrison Bergeron goes through a life-changing moment. In the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegg, people live in a world where people have disabilities to make them equal “They are equal every which way. Nobody is smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” At first, in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegg, Harrison escapes from jail. Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a grackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.” Therefore, the government was scared that everything they did would go down because of this Harrison. So then Harrison went and broke all his handicaps. Consequently, he went to a balerna show that was live and picked one of them to dance with him live, breaking all the rolls on live