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	'Main points of the movie Harrison Bergeron' by Brent Garrison
		Marek Vit epitomizes the beliefs of Harrison Bergeron's world with a quote from his review: "...uniformity (of any kind) leads to the loss of individuality, and therefore to absolute deformity of humanness."(1) Another theme in the movie is that ignorance of the past leads to a bleak future.
		Where Harrison is chastised and mocked for his intelligence, secretly he is being monitored by an agency of highly intellectual individuals that run the country, akin to the "Wizard of Oz." The ironic part is that there is a necessity for highly intelligent persons in this "perfect" society.
		Harrison Bergeron acts as the outsider in Plato's cave, venturing into the world apart and returning to tell the others of his vision.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_bergeron_movie.html (1159 words)

	Harrison Bergeron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Harrison Bergeron" is a dystopian science fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1961.
		Welcome to the Monkey House The story is told from the viewpoint of George Bergeron, who watches TV with his wife Hazel.
		The ensuing hullabaloo is televised, with the Handicapper General herself eventually shooting Harrison and his dance partner to death; Bergeron's parents, Hazel and George, are at home watching television, and see the whole thing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harrison_Bergeron (467 words)

	Untitled Document
		In “Harrison Bergeron,” no one can specialize in anything because they are all the same on a level playing field.
		Bergeron suggests to her husband that he remove some of the weights from his own handicap sacks, he says, “Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I take out.
		In Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” the United States in 2081 are not a society, but a Panoptic prison where the citizens are held and guarded like inmates, and this is no way to live.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~hagle/midterm.html (1663 words)

	purevolume™ \| Harrison Bergeron
		Harrison Bergeron reminds you why you liked punk and hardcore in the first place, before all the 17 year olds started playing it.
		Harrison Bergeron brings the rock their guitar riffs are infectious, their drumming clean and expert and their singer is skilled in the nuance of mixing screams with song.
		Harrison Bergeron formed in the summer of 2003 when hard-working members of several local touring bands, including Laymen Terms, united to play the music they love and ended up creating the strongest band to come from Colorado Springs.
	www.purevolume.com /harrisonbergeron (409 words)

	"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
		“Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
		Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with marvelous delicacy.
		Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/hb.html (1912 words)

	Uniformity and Deformity in "Harrison Bergeron"
		Uniformity and Deformity in "Harrison Bergeron" An exploration of the main theme of "Harrison Bergeron" Marek Vit In this essay, I will attempt to explore what Kurt Vonnegut illustrated in his short story "Harrison Bergeron"--the fact that uniformity (of any kind) leads to the loss of individuality, and therefore to absolute deformity of humanness.
		In "Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut presented a scary view of a future society, where everyone was equal.
		She was ugly, stupid, and boring." (Vonnegut 1978:56) In "Harrison Bergeron" she got a position at the top of the society and she wanted to keep it.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/bergeron.html (890 words)

	Studies in Short Fiction: The politics of Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" - Critical Essay on LookSmart Junior High
		According to all commentary on Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," the theme of this satire is that attempts to achieve equality are absurd.
		In a letter to me, Vonnegut indicated that the foregoing sympathy with "Losers" influenced "Harrison Bergeron." If the misreadings of this text were valid, then the implied author's sympathy would be for Harrison Bergeron and his antipathy would be for Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General striving to prevent privilege.
		("Harrison Bergeron" first appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.) Just as Twain could not have sold Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson if their sympathy with African-American characters had been obvious, so Vonnegut could not have sold a story overtly sympathetic to leveling.
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_4_35/ai_91040892 (1346 words)

	apophenia: Harrison Bergeron
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr's "Harrison Bergeron" was one of those short stories that blew me away as a kid and i find myself still referring to it.
		George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have-for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune.
		Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while-listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it.
	www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2004/10/17/harrison_bergeron.html (2364 words)

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		"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a gackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
		George Bergeron correctly identified the earhtquak, and well he might have - for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune.
		Harrison placed his big hands on the girl's tiny waist, letting her sense of weight- lessness that would soon be hers.
	textfiles.planetmirror.com /uploads/bergeron.txt (2005 words)

	Free Essays on Harrison Bergeron
		In the movie, Harrison is mocked and branded as an outcast for his intelligence, yet he is secretly being monitored by the secret Administers organization.
		Unfortunately, Harrison later learns that only 1.3% of the public actually heard the true meaning of his program, which was a scream in the dark for an up rise to revolt against this tyrannical government, and removed their bands for good.
		In the movie Harrison Bergeron, and in the short story "Harrison Bergeron" there are a number of differences, as well as irony and symbolism.
	www.123student.com /3986.htm (1274 words)

	Harrison Bergeron (1995 TV) Detailed Movie Review
		Harrison Bergeron is a smart kid in a future America where everyone is supposed to be equal, which is interpreted as "the same".
		When he impregnates his romantic interest and she runs away, Harrison is devastated to find that the secret government has had her brain altered so that she will not be able to pass along information to the dumb society to which she must return.
		Harrison Bergeron is an exciting adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s classic short story by the same name.
	www.allscifi.com /topics/info_8804.asp (639 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - George W. Bush as Compared with Certain Characters in Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
		First published in 1961, “Harrison Bergeron” has often been interpreted as a parable of the dangers of Communism, understandable given the political climate of that era.
		In the United States of 2081, this means he is required by law to wear a mental handicap radio in his ear “to keep people like [him] from taking unfair advantage of their brains." He is also required to a “handicap bag" which are weights designed to keep him from using his full physical strength.
		Near the end of “Harrison Bergeron,” the title character is killed — gunned down by Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers with a “double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun." The murder is committed on live television while Harrison’s parents watch.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A3025900 (1477 words)

	analyzation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison Bergeron is told by a non-participant narrator in the objective, impartial omniscience point of view.
		Harrison Bergeron could be a way for Vonnegut to express his disapproval and protest of Communism.
		In this way, Harrison Bergeron can be seen as an Allegory, or a narrative in which literal events are a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas, many times historical.
	www2.carthage.edu /~mvarvodi/analyzation.html (780 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on A summary of "harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
		A summary of "harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
		"Harrison Bergeron," a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, details how the future could look for out country.
		As witnessed throughout the story, Harrison's abilities present a danger to the current society.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/A_summary_of_harrison_Bergero-137136.html (203 words)

	Nigel Bennett Featured Performance Page
		Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron is a satirical drama chronicling a society in which excellence and achievement are systematically suppressed by a secret government.
		On the even of surgery, Harrison is sent by his doctor to a Head House, an intellectual brothel where people of extraordinary abilities go to furtively explore complex area of human thought: philosophy, literature, music and science.
		Moments later, the police raid the establishment and Harrison heroically protects Phillipa from severe penalties by removing his band and placing it on her.
	www.blackhatstation.com /Film/jun97.htm (961 words)

	Harrison Bergeron [Free Republic]
		“Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
		Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers.
		I think this is the only good piece of work by Vonnegut- He is certainly left-wing, and some reviewers take a different outlook on Harrison- The believe it is satire of American conformist culture- a little different from affirmative action- since affirmative action/ADA and all the others were not in law when this was written.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a9336e46dd1.htm (2779 words)

	Vonnegut Freaked Me Out :: Quantum Philosophy.net :: Linearly Accelerated Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I knew from the point we ran across Harrison Bergeron in a high school that English class I should keep my head low, and not make too many waves.
		A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen-upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up.
		And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with fl caps at snaggle-tooth random.
	www.quantumphilosophy.net /Article1240.html (875 words)

	Amazon.ca: Harrison Bergeron [IMPORT]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison Bergeron (Sean Astin) is a smart teen whose intelligence is initially seen as a threat to the status quo.
		One of his better-celebrated pieces of writing is a short story of just a few pages called "Harrison Bergeron." This 1995 movie is a 99-minute adaptation of that brief short story.
		Predictably, Harrison Bergeron has such a high IQ that his mind control collar cannot effectively inhibit his intelligence and he must make a choice between a surgery similar to a lobotomy or disappear from society.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6303801919 (1233 words)

	essay two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Frankenstein, a human is ultimately defined as a social construct, while in "Harrison Bergeron," a human is defined as an individual that defies social convention.
		For instance, suppose you were using "Harrison Bergeron" to prove the accuracy of the definition of science fiction as "the search for the definition of man." Your task would be to re-read the story carefully to find the instances that you can use for evidence.
		For instance, Bergeron defies the imposed social restraints of the "handicapper general." He first distinguishes himself with his athletic prowress: "They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun.
	wings.buffalo.edu /courses/sp00/eng/201p11/essay2.htm (1232 words)

	HARRISON BERGERON
		Harrison Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an
		Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with
		Harrison placed his big hands on the girls tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/stelmo/248/harrison.html (1535 words)

	English 101 On-Line Reading and Composition I
		In "Harrison Bergeron" Kurt Vonnegut gives an exaggerated view of government control and social sameness suggested by Marx and Engels and other proponents of communism.
		He was also wary of social programs in the West where government interfered in mandated equality/sameness--socialized medicine and welfare, for example, and he was anticipating other programs such as Title IX and affirmative action.
		In "Harrison Bergeron" he does not deny that people are "created equal," with opportunities to rise from rags to riches or to blow all of those riches and descend to rags.
	home.earthlink.net /~jcorbally/english1/lect14.html (759 words)

	Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
		When Harrison Bergeron is completely free from his handicaps, he defies the laws of gravity and motion.
		How are the results of Harrison's efforts an ironic reversal of what happens in the traditional heroic stories.
		Imagine that Harrison is NOT killed and he becomes Emperor.
	mh034.k12.sd.us /harrison_bergeron__by_kurt_vonne.htm (653 words)

	Lit127 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dystopian stories often caution about current social trends by exaggerating them in some mythic future — that is by taking them to their extreme possibility.
		Consider both the time the story was written (post-WWII) and contemporary issues.
		"Harrison Bergeron" is set in the United States.
	virtual.parkland.edu /rbusker/lit127s05/hb.htm (134 words)

	Harrison Bergeron
		George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have - for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune.
		Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood - in the center of the studio.
		"Harrison Bergeron" is copyrighted by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1961.
	www.tnellen.com /cybereng/harrison.html (1853 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What is the significance of the real Harrison suddenly appearing on the TV set where his escape from prison was being reported?
		What is the meaning of Harrison and the ballerina being shot down by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General?
		J.P. Mayer, that seem especially appropriate for "Harrison Bergeron.": "There is indeed a manly and legitimate passion for equality which rouses in all men a desire to be strong and respected.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /english/fajardo/teaching/srp435/vonnegut.htm (1058 words)

	Harrison Bergeron
		Examine the relationship of Harrison's parents: George and Hazel.
		Perhaps you wish to draw a picture of what Harrison looks like from the description of him from the story.
		In BlackBoard: Select at least 3 sentences from the story that were important, relevant, key, supportive of your reading and understanding of this story and explain why.
	www.tnellen.com /05iths/HB.html (480 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT: Vonnegut on Showtime's adaptation of 'Harrison Bergeron'
		KURT VONNEGUT: Vonnegut on Showtime's adaptation of 'Harrison Bergeron'
		Now his vision and one of his more popular characters, Harrison Bergeron, will take on cable TV viewers in a new movie.
		Kurt Vonnegut's ''Harrison Bergeron'' imagines the United States 60 years from now, following a second American Revolution.
	www.vonnegutweb.com /collections/wttmh_vonnegutharrison.html (558 words)

	harrison bergeron
		Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the pad that secured his
		Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her
		Harrison placed his big hands on the girl's tiny waist, letting her
	www.msjhs.org /staff/brunak/bergeron.html (1476 words)

	Lesson 2: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first task is to write down a major event from "Harrison Bergeron." We'll then discuss as a class the basic plot of the story.
		For task three they'll write down themes from "Harrison Bergeron" which are similar to The Giver.
		Homework: Take one of the themes which is shared by the two stories, then tell whether you think each author did a good job of presenting that theme in their story and explain why.
	www.k12.hi.us /~mkulas/lesson2-hb.htm (244 words)

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