Authors sometimes get ideas from other authors. Both Harrison Bergeron and The Most Dangerous Game are wonderful books. Although they bear some minor similarities the differences between Harrison Bergeron and The The Most Dangerous Game are noticeable. They are different books because one is based in the past while the other is in the present. In both of the books, the antagonist is truly evil. One book it was all equal the other was not very equal. Harrison Bergeron was based in the future while The Most Dangerous Game was based in the past. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. (pg 1). “Surely your experiences in the war” (pg 9). Harrison Bergeron was based in the future while The Most Dangerous Game was based after the first …show more content…
The Handicapper General way murderous and General Zaroff hunted humans for a sport. “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice.” (pg 4). "Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder." (pg 9). Both of them murdered people for no reason and had psychotic ideas about what to do with people. Both books demonstrate the point each author was trying to make. In Harrison Bergeron the whole point of the book was equality. While in The Most Dangerous Game there was no equality in the hunting that General Zaroff does. “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” (pg 1). “I will supply you with hunting clothes, food, a knife. I suggest you wear moccasins.” (pg 12). The law was that everyone was equal in Harrison Bergeron, but in The Most Dangerous Game that was all Rainsford got while General Zaroff got hounds guns and his whole mansion to sleep and