Harrison+Bergeron+-+Literary+Devices

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Harrison Bergeron

Point of View: 3rd person

Protagonist: Harrison Bergeron What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, and Dynamic Antagonist: H-G People

Describe the setting The setting of this story was in 2081, in middle-America.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Environment

Describe the main conflict: The conflict of this story is Man vs Environment because Harrison Bergeron has great intelligence, height, strength, and beauty so he has to wear big handicaps because the H-G people made everyone equal. Because the environment has to be equal, this makes the exceptional people having to cover their greatness with objects such as masks, and handicaps.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story was when Harrison was choosing someone to marry, and took off all his equipment, and she took off her mask that hid her beauty, and Diana shooting them because of it.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? The protagonist started following the rules about equality, but then in the climax of the story, he took it all off, not scared of the dangers of it, and acting all mighty by forcing the musicians to play music and take off their handicaps.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship between the title, "Harrison Bergeron", and the theme, "Freedom" is related because Harrison Bergeron has no freedom of anything, and is forced to wear big handicaps, and other tools to make him looks equal with everyone else.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict of Man vs Environment helps illustrate the theme of "Freedom" because the environment was the thing that caused the Man to lose his freedom from being better than others in certain things.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax of when Harrison was choosing someone to marry helped illustrate the theme of "Freedom" because Harrison at that time was free from his handicaps, and the ballerina free from the mask that hid her beauty, ignoring the risk of being shot dead, and loving the moment.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "They leaped like deer on the moon"

Metaphor: “There was a riveting gun in his head. "

Personification: "Having no mental handicap himself..."

Symbol: Handicaps are a symbol of being locked away, the opposite of being free, trapped.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): There were many examples of foreshadowing in this story. One example of foreshadowing was when Harrison took off his handicap. We as the readers know that something is going to happen because of this... a consequence for Harrison.

Irony: When Harrison got killed, her mother was really sad, and crying but when George asks her why, she forgets.

Imagery: “Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen” she said in a grackle squawk."

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. There are many relationships between the class theme of "Humanities", and the story "Harrison Bergeron". One relationship between these two are that Harrison Bergeron is human, so he must contain humanities. His emotions are trapped away inside his mind about these horrid handicaps, and because he is human, he has the urge to take them off, in which he does.