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Harrison Bergeron Compare And Contrast

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In the strict world of 2081, citizens were forced to hide their uniqueness behind masks, and their smartness with buzzers that sounded in their ears almost every second of the day. The dreadful story of “Harrison Bergeron” was very popular and was created as a short movie. There are some similarities and differences between the story and the movie, but they are mostly similar to each other. The beginning of the story started out the same, but changed as the movie progressed in events. The story of “Harrison Bergeron” is pretty much the same, like the plot, but the characterization and conflict are slightly different in the movie than in the story. The story and the movie is introduced with George and Hazel, the parents of Harrison Bergeron, watching a ballerina dance, which is the same in both the movie and the story. Their son, Harrison, was not home because of the fact that the H-G men took Harrison away. Since, in the movie, the ballerina’s were made to put on masks and metal handicaps, they didn’t look their very best while performing. The music sounded bland, and the ballerinas were doing the same dance day-by-day. The author describes the ballerina’s in the text as “burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and …show more content…

In the movie, Hazel gets up from the couch to wash the dishes as George watches television. She ends up missing the whole broadcast, where a man struggles to announce that Harrison had broken out of jail, and is dangerous to everyone. However, in the movie, he tries again, and succeeds, but in the story, one of the utterly beautiful ballerinas has to say it for him. This is one example of the difference in plot, since the two are different. The suspense carries on as Harrison Bergeron, himself, enters the dance studio. The movie and the story are the same as it carries on at this point. Essentially, the middle of the story is where it starts to

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In October 1961, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story called “Harrison Bergeron.” It took place in April 2081 and it’s about a 14-year-old boy who escaped from jail and is somewhere in the area. There are many reasons why I think the government will do anything to stop you if you don’t follow the law. First, everyone has handicaps to keep them equal, Harrison Bergeron is a giant, he is 7 feet tall and strong.

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Furthermore in the movie 2081 when Harrison arrives at the theater in a welcoming manner he says, "Now...my apologies for interrupting this evening’s entertainment, hopefully I can provide you with some of my own. My name is Harrison Bergeron"(2081 Script). This shows that the portrayal of his character differs between 2081 and Harrison Bergeron since in 2081 he seems to have a more calm and patient demeanor signifying that his character differs from the more rude

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Harrison Bergeron was a book written in 1961 that portrayed an abnormal child defying the dystopian government; in 2009 a movie was made, based off of it called 2081 that changed the character both physically and morally. The differences in how Harrison Bergeron, the main character, appears in each story changes how the audience perceives his morality. These changes are easily highlighted in Harrison’s age, dialogue, and appearance. The tone of the story is also changed, resulting in similar changes to what the audience interprets. As both stories continue these differences become more and more apparent and by the end, there is a clear split in what the audience ‘takes away’.

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In a lot of stories, the characters are what makes a “great story,” but most characters a very different from each other, just like in the three stories, The Sniper, The Most Dangerous Game and Harrison Bergeron. They all share the same trait. Even though the characters share the same trait, they differ in their own ways. A way the Characters all share a similar trait is that Rainsford, Harrison and The Sniper are all very “brave.” One way the Harrison is very brave is that he stood up against a government who kills and locks up people that are “over average” “(different or better than normal).”

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