Harrison Bergeron

Harrison Bergeron was a very enjoyable short story to read, and brings about many open-ended questions. Will our society become similar to the society written about in Harrison Bergeron? This could be argued about in many different ways. If we keep giving out trophies to our children for participating in things then they might grow up thinking that competition is wrong. Some of these children will grow up to be government officials and leaders that will determine what new law will be, and they might outlaw competition. Others might argue that since we are writing about this faulty society today and see the wrong that it brings forth, then we will not follow down that path and become like them.

Other questions might arise, too. If Harrison was so intelligent and superior to the other citizens, then why did he not understand the risk of escaping jail and throwing off his shackles on live television showing the government where he was and how to kill him? His plan was very smart in the first place to try and get people to let him be the emperor, but this strategy could have used a lot more planning yo prevent himself from dying. And if hazel was mentally average, then how does she forget that her own son is shot and killed on live television within a minute of it happening. I have a bad short term memory, but if forgetting something that quick in their society is "average", then many of the people must have a mental disease. This means that the government has put some device inside of peoples brains so they can not see the flaws in their society.