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Harrison Bergeron Summary & Study Guide Description
Harrison Bergeron Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Harrison Bergeron Plot Summary
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"Harrison Bergeron" is set in the future, when Constitutional Amendments have made everyone equal. The agents of the Handicapper General (H-G men, an allusion to the practice in the 1940s and 1950s of referring to Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service officers as G-men, the G standing for government) enforce the equality laws.
People are made equal by devices which bring them down to the normalcy level in the story, which is actually below-average in intelligence, strength, and ability. These devices include weights to stunt speed and strength; masks, red rubber clown noses, or thick glasses to hide good looks and to make seeing difficult; and radio transmitters implanted in the ears of intelligent people, which emit sharp noises two or three times a minute to prevent sustained thought.
In April, described as "clammy" and driving "people crazy by not being springtime," H-G men take Harrison Bergeron—son...
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