4-Harrison+Bergeron

= = Neetu Dahiya 1. Sash weights – noun – A weight attached by a cord to each side of a window sash to balance it at

any height. George along with others was burdened with weights attached to them.

2. Clammy – adjective – Unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch. This month in particular

was very clammy because they had to take away Harrison.

3. Birdshot – noun – The smallest size of shot for sporting rifles or other guns. Along with sash

weights, they had bags with birdshots.

4. Peen – noun – The end of a hammer head opposite the face, typically wedge – shaped, curved,

or spherical. This part of the hammer tends to very dangerous. When they were talking about it

in the story they wanted to be described as very sharp and dangerous.

5. Glimmering – noun – a faint or unsteady light. George was uncertain about Harrison was

abnormal, since he was now in jail.

6. Padlock – noun – A detachable lock hanging by a pivoted hook on the object fastened. There

was a bag of birdshots that was padlocked around George neck.

7. Impediment – noun – A hindrance or obstruction in doing something. The announcer on the

television program had a speech impediment while giving a serious speech.

8. Luminous – adjective – Bright or shining. The ballerina had a very soft, bright, and

noncompetitive.

9. Hindrances – noun – A thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or

someone. Harrison had outgrown any hindrances faster than any of the H-G men could even

think up to.

10. Cowering – verb – Crouch down in fear. Harrison was very angry and looked down at the people

who had then feared him. Neetu’s Costa’s Level of Questions: 1. Based on the text, in the first paragraph on page 4, what does the word whanging mean?

2. Analyze 3 ways that Harrison had changed throughout the story.

3. Following Ann’s third question, how do you think the story might have changed in the

Bergeron’s would have known it was their son? = Character Tracker: Lisa =
 * I would consider George to be annoyed because his "intelligence is above normal" it is considered a handicap and has cause him to have a device in his ear that makes a different noise every twenty seconds so that he does not have much time to think. I think that in the moments that he has to think he gets very annoyed because he knows he will only have this time and then he wll have a whole new train of thought and have to start over.
 * George and Hazel's son, Harrison has been in jail and broke out to show the world that while trying to make everyone equal, it has made them stupid and that same time. I think that makes him fearless and brave becuase he is not afriad to show the world the truth behind what they are doing.
 * Hazel is very cooperative because she puts up with George's handicap everyday and doesn't give up on caring about him or loving him. It also shows that she is loving, because she loves George for who is is and has become and not for what he used to be.
 * Although the world is not necessarily a character I think that this story has shown that the world is very corrupt and that we all have to be somewhat unequal in orfer for the world to work. By trying to make the world an equal place for the poeple it made it almost imposible for anyone to be smart or good at anything. We are better off the way the world is now, which shows that what we think isn't good is also what helps let us survive.
 * The Empress mentioned toward the end of the story naive because she randomly and without thought agreed to being the empress with Harrison. Not that it woule have ended badly, but she made a decision without a thought about it at all. I think that she could hae gotten herself in a lot of trouble if it had been a different situation or is Harrison were trying trying to do something bad.

__ Lisa's Costa's Questions: __
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 * 1) What is Mr. Bergeron's handicap and why does he have it?
 * 2) Give an example of a handicap and explain it.
 * 3) Imagine how the parents of Harrison would feel if they knew it was him on the televisoin, how do you think they would feel?
 * The story "Harrison Bergeron" is like the song Break Away by Kelley Clarkson, because both are about someone knowing that they can achieve greater than what they have already been given. In the song, Kelley describes leaving every thing she's ever known and going to show the world who she really is. This is a lot like Harrison leaving his home and taking off all of his handicaps and fighting for the right to be who he really is.
 * "The Hunger Games" movie can also be compared to the story of Harrison Bergeron because the government controls its citizens by forcing them to send two children from each district into a fight to the death. This is like Harrison Bergeron because in this case the government controls its people by giving them handicaps, like weights to carry if they're strong and a noise making earpiece if they're smart, to make sure all the people are equal.
 * The book "Divergent" by Veronica Roth is also like Harrison Bergeron because in Divergent, people are divided into groups based on certain qualities they poses and people minds can be controlled by simulations which only a few people can overcome. This is like how in Harrison Bergeron Harrison's parents keep forgetting about their son and who he is and why their sad because the government doesn't want them to remember and care. They just want them to be exactly like everyone else.
 * Harrison Bergeron can be related to real life communism in North Korea. In North Korea the government controls everything people do. What job they have, how much money they get, who they marry, and where they live is all determined by the government so that supposedly everyone is equal. Just like in the story how pretty people have to wear a mask, strong people have to carry weights, smart people have to have an earpiece that makes loud noises so that they can never think straight, people with good vision have to wear glass with thick wavy lenses, all to try and make people more equal.

Mickelle's Costa's Questions

 * 1) What was a pretty persons handicap?
 * 2) What were some of the different handicaps and what were they meant to do?
 * 3) What would be some advantages and disadvantages in a society like this? Would it be worth it?

**Image Finder: Ann**
For my first image I chose a ballerina because In the introduction of the story George and Hazel Bergeron are watching ballerinas on TV. It's a normal broadcast except for the dancers are fitted with handicaps such as weights, masks, and earpieces so that they are equal to everyone. Since they have those handicaps they aren't as good as they could be at dancing.

I chose chains and weight for my second image because of the weights that the government makes it's citizens wear. This is done so that everyone is average. When we are introduced to Harrison Bergeron he is shown in a mugshot like the one above. His handicaps were bigger than anybody else's and he was a giant standing at a whopping 7 feet tall!

I picked this picture of an orchestra because Harrison orders the musicians in the room to play as well as they can so that he and his beautiful new "empress" could dance.They stop though, when the handicapper general threatens them to put their handicaps back on unless they want to die.

A shotgun is important in the story because the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers, storms int the studio with it and shoots Harrison Bergeron and the ballerina and they were "dead before they hid the floor".

Ann's Costa Questions:
1. In the beginning of the story how many ballerinas collapsed to the floor after they heard a 21 gun salute in their government issued earpieces? 2. Compare and contrast the the handicaps of the ballerina versus the handicaps of the newscaster. 3. Do you think that the Bergerons ever knew that it was their son that they were seeing on television?