Harrison Bergeron: The Use Of Symbolism In Short Stories

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Today you are going to learn how authors can copy someone else's work and not get sued. They do it by using allusion which is where you make references to other stories without completely copying them and slapping another name on it.There is also symbolism which is where you have item or character that in some way does something that means something else. But today you are only going to learn about symbolism and how some authors used it in there short stories. In this paragraph i'm going to tell you about 4 short stories that have a lot of symbolism in them.The first short story is Harrison Bergeron, which is a story about a futuristic dystopian society where everyone is “equal”. The second short story is The Pedestrian, which is a story about a future where police cars are obsolete but 1 still remains and it ends up arresting a man for walking around at night. The third is a short story is The Lottery, this story is about a village ceremony where people pull cards out of a black box and if you get a card with a black dot on it you get stoned to death.The fourth short story is 2 B R not 2 B, this story is about a society where name are drawn to be killed in a gas chamber. …show more content…

In Harrison Bergeron, Harrison has a lot of handicaps and at one point in the story he breaks them all off, this symbolizes him breaking free of society rules. In The Lottery the black dot on the which slip of paper symbolizes death. In 2 B R not 2 B the symbol of the organization the controls the gas chambers is a eagle on a turnstile which symbolizes a swastika. The next short story is the Pedestrian, this story is about a man who every night goes out for a walk, in the end he gets arrested by a driver less car for suspicious behavior, this symbolizes the control oppressive governments have over their

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