Examples Of Handicaps In Harrison Bergeron

In science fiction books there is at least a couple things with a society and they seem to have no freedom and the government is controlling what all the people are doing. In the giver there is a boy named Jonas who living a world under a community and gets selected for the receiver of memory and he learns a lot about his community and how it is not very fair to all people. In Harrison Bergeron people wear these handicaps and they are forced to wear them, the government requires it, so there is no difference in people for being smart, so Harrison was escaping he handicaps to show people in his world how unfair it is.

Jonas was living a life under a speaker, bikes, and the threat of being released. One day the ceremony of 12 happened and

"Every 20 seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to people like George from taking unfair advantages from their brains." (1). The handicaps are a good example of this because the handicaps take advantage over people. Then you forget that thought so that means that they don't want smart people in Harrison Bergeron and they cover the people that look more pretty than others with masks so everyone is equal in the story and if you take off your handicaps you got to jail and pay a fee. "Harrison age 14, he said in a squawk, has just escaped from jail, where he held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government." (6). So Harrison breaks out of his handicaps and he goes to a audience on TV and he gets the TV shutdown then he turned it back on with a bomb and made people see how smart he is and how unfair the government is. "Diana Moons Glampers loads the gun, she aimed it at the musicians and told them that they had 10 seconds to get there handicaps back on. It was then the Bergeron's TV that has burned out." (11). This shows that all the government is cruel and not that good in Harrison Bergeron because they shot Harrison for taking off his