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.