Unknown Story
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- The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal.
- And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.
- Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers.
- he tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.
- Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds. And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggletooth random.
- The largest exaggeration of all of them is in the first grid: That everybody was finally equal. In this world, the people have equality and balance mixed up. The difference being that balance is what they truly desire, where people all have the same value, just in different areas. Thus, they suffer the consequences of being in a non-competitive world such as announcers that have trouble annunciating. Another thing that was ridiculous about the story, was that Harrison was only fourteen throughout the entire ordeal. One of the strangest parts of the story, was that the author made a point of the fact that Hazel looked a lot like the person who ordered that her son was taken away. The author was trying to say that the pursuit of equality is one that leads down a dark path, and that we are the closest we have come to the next best thing anyway: balance.
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