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- The year is 2081 and everyone is the same as everyone else, and those who are superior must pretend they are not so that they don't make anyone feel inferior to them. They have devices in their ears that tells them when they are thinking or doing something that might make someone else feel bad about themselves. People who are smarter must refrain from showing it, people who are stronger are weighed down to make them as weak as everyone else. People who are more beautiful must cover their beauty. 
- This is Mr. and Mrs. Burgeron. Mrs. Burgeron has average intelligence, and Mr. Burgeron has above-average intelligence. Because of this, he wears an earpiece that emits a loud sound every 20 seconds to remind him not to be smarter than normal.
- That was a nice dance they just did.
- The ugliest masks are on the prettiest dancers and the strongest ones wear weights to make all the dancers appear equally.
- Mhmm...
- Anyone could've done it...
- I wish I could have a mental handicap. He's lucky!
- I think chimes would be a nicer sound than what Diana Moon Glampers is doing. I'd be a great Handicapper General!
- The noise really hurts!
- Just as good as anyone else would be...
- This is Mr. and Mrs. Burgeron's son, Harrison, who is stronger, smarter, and better-looking than everyone else. He has been arrested and imprisoned because of this.
- I would hate a competitive world with unequal people!
- Harrison Burgeron escaped from prison...
- The dancer has to apologize for her unfair voice and make her voice uglier so that it is equal and uncompetitive when compared to the voices of other females.
- In the short story "Harrison Burgeron", Kurt Vonnegut, the author, makes the subtle point that an equal world without competition is not as good as it might sound. If everyone was the same as everyone else, there would be no individuality, and the government would become more controlling than ever in its efforts to secure those who are beyond Vonnegot's symbolic "handicaps", which are designed to impend those who are stronger, more intelligent, or more beautiful than everyone else. The world was made for diversity, and those who are better at one thing are always worse at another. Making everyone the same will remove all signs of talent in sports, newscasting, home,  entertainment, scientific fields of study, military branches, etc. The author demonstrates this by exaggerating the situations of each character in the short story and illustrating exactly how average everyone would be forced to be. Entertainment would no longer be very entertaining, and people would no longer stand out as more beautiful, smarter, or stronger.  Talent and diversity are good things, and a world without them would be a gray and bland one.
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