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The Censors By Harrison Bergeron

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When it means to be free, it means you have the power to make decisions that influence good, to not have an opposing force telling you that you can’t make that decision. The ability to make your own decisions, to learn and grow from them is a power no one should take from a person. In Harrison Bergeron it shows that the government doesn’t allow you to make a choice for yourself, they downgrade citizens to the point where they don't have the ability to make their own choices, they control their citizens by using handicaps, and different items to conceal the attractiveness of different people, for everyone to feel equal. “They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody …show more content…

The government “censors” any mail that has any impropriety in its containments. The author of this story mainly wrote it because of Argentina’s troubled history with censorship and violation of human rights, Argentinian government struggled with giving freedom to its citizens, they took the ability of making their own choices away, they took ability to have a relationship with people away, they took a lot away from the freedom that the citizens deserved. “all this time the freedom, maybe even the life, of both sender and receiver is in jeopardy” (The Censors P.2). The different types of governments that show their country's freedom is …show more content…

If they do another crime, as in killing a clans member. They are exiled for a certain amount of time. They are allowed to make most of their own decisions, “Okonkwo’s second wife had merely cut a few leaves off it to wrap some food, and she said so. Without further argument Okonkwo gave her a sound beating and left her and her only daughter weeping” (T.F.A Pg. 38). This “crime” only affected Okonkwo because he beat her during the week of peace, it was disrespectful towards the clan. The different types of ways that the clan took crimes shows that freedom was given in the weirdest ways. “The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed must flee from the land…Okonkwo had committed the female,...he could return to the clan after seven years.” (T.F.A Pg. 124). The way that the clan took about Okonkwo killing a clansman was different than how they took him beating his wife, Okonkwo didn’t get a big punishment for beating his wife like he did for killing a

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