HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Thomas Kemery
Mrs. Noble
Bell 6
3/23/15
     
       This book reminded me an awful lot of The Giver. It takes place in a world where society is
controlled by the government. But it a overwhelming control. Everyone must remain the same. Anyone who is physically or mentally advanced are placed with handicaps that decelerate their advanced ability. And what ends up happening is a man who has handicaps placed on him, takes them off and claims himself emperor. This might have been his way of getting back at the corrupt government. But it ends up backfiring because the handicap general comes in and kills him with a shotgun.

Satire

       I would say that this is an example of  horation satire. Its horation because it ridicules the absurdities of humans and does make people have a "wry smile". In this cartoon, the cartoonist is simply making fun of the fact that college graduates will be in debt. They either don't have the money to pay off their college funds or they were not ready for a world with debt in it. It is laughed at because of the acceptance of the graduate. He knows what he has gotten himself into, making the reader have a laugh.