“Showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches. He was exactly seven feet tall. Noody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances… wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses…intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches. Scrap Metal was hung all over him”.
Harrison Bergeron, the son of George and Hazel, was shown a phtotograph of him on televsion after he has escaped prison in order to overthrow his government. Due to Harrison's enormous size, he is forced to wear handicaps which restirct his mental and physical abilities. The quote shown above supports the authors use of characterization in the story.
Gleiten: 2
“ A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts feld in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm”.
George who has an overachieving IQ from the rest, is forced to wear a menta handicap to keep his thoughts away from him and make him unfocused. All of this is in hopes to make his inteligence weaker. This quote shown above as well develops the authors use of similie in the story.
Gleiten: 3
“ It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double barreled ten gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor”.
Soon after Harrison's escape, he takes a ballerina who as well has been handicapped, and he runs away with her to a studio to announce their ruling together as Emperor and Empress. Then arrives the Handicapper General to stop this revolt. This quote again demonstartes how the author uses situational irony in the story.