The way an author writes can almost be related to the way people talk each other and are very deliberate in the words they choose to say even if it just a sentence. Even a person's tone when talking is similar to the tone in a story but the only difference between the two could be the vocabulary size. Kurt Vonnegut Jr is the author of the story Harrison Bergeron and the story is about a world where everyone is equal in every way beauty, intelligence, strength, speed, and anyone who has a advantage over people is given handicaps to keep the playing field leveled. The message that Vonnegut wants you to take from this is that society is trying to trying to take away qualities that would make you your own individual because with them gone you, become easier to be influenced.Vonnegut dose many purposeful things in this story to give you hints on the message …show more content…
“I don't mind it,” he said. “I don't notice it any more. It's just a part of me now.” (Vonnegut 2) The information he presented is very symbolic. They way how George describe the weights, how they are now apart of him could be inferred that when society change the way you act or feel it slowly will become apart of you for better or worse. When an author describes a character, each feature a character has is purposeful (even down to their eye color) and the character in a story all have their own traits for a reason and that is to get the author's message across. In Harrison Bergeron,Vonnegut writes “Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.” (Vonnegut 5) These are some of the description we get of Harrison it implies that Vonnegut has to think of Harrison as monstrous they way he's describe make you think of a person who has qualities befitting a monstore and that what Vonnegut wish you to