This week at home we read three short stories. The titles were Harrison Bergeron, A&P, and To Dah-Dah in Memoriam. The one that I felt was the best was Harrison Bergeron. The short story was about a dystopian society that is equal in every way...literally! They are equal because if a person has any strengths they have a thing called handicaps.These handicaps bring the strength level back down to average.
The main characters George and Hazel are the parents of Harrison Bergeron. Harrison is a man with an enormous amount of strength, good looks, and pretty much he is great at everything. George is a smart and strong man. His handicaps is that he has to have a heavy bag of bird shot around his neck. Also, he has a handicap on his ear that makes him lose his thoughts when he is thinking. Hazel was a very challenged lady, but was very sweet.
So George and Hazel are watching TV as they see a news anchor say that Harrison has escaped from prison. He was in prison because he is to powerful for any handicaps. Well Harrison barges into the news station and chooses a ballet dancer with a mask -because she was very pretty- as his empress. They begin to dance and levitate then they get shot by the handicap officer. I really liked this short story because of the action and the characters.
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