Harrison Bergeron

I wanted to grow up and become the best soccer player in the world. Have the speed of a jaguar, be built like a horse. I wish the world would have been made so every person doesn’t have to be equivalent to another. But wishes don’t always come true, not in this case. Not now, not ever. I would pray every night for the day to come, but I doubt it will ever come. Not now, not ever. If you were one of the people stuck in this complex world in "Harrison Bergeron", you would know how it feels to be no different from another.

This story had tons and tons of different mindbottleing symbols. One of the symbols is the handicapped materials that the people have to wear Which represents the people like their living a different life then what they always wanted to live. It also represents life and death. Keeping the handicaps on kept the people alive but in misery and depressed. Knowing that they can’t go far in life and become anything good. Just another person. If the people take the handicaps off, they will most likely get killed cause they can’t be more talented then another.

Another symbol in this story is the double barrel shotgun. The shotgun is the symbol of Harrisons death. Everything that has happened in his life ends with a single bullet. It all goes to waste because of the lady who shot him. Which makes me wonder what would have happened if he lived? If the rules weren’t that everybody had to be the same. He could have became a person who could have accomplished the world.

This book sent me in many different directions. On how the world would be if everybody was no different from another. Also, how it would be if we had to wear materials if we were handicapped or had a strength. I want to be one of the best soccer players known to man. I want to become the greatest. In this world, I have a chance to capture that and make it happen. Harrison Bergeron also has dreams and wishes like mine, but instead, they cannot ever come true.