Summary Of Perfect Stanger And The Ones That Walked Away By Harrison Bergeron

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Equality is the pentacle of any nation, and the more quality that a nation has the better quality of life for its people. Equality is extremely important to maintain balance in a modern community, and its people. For societies excessive inequality leads to conflict. It is not surprising that the main protagonists of revolution are often those who have the least and who are at the receiving end of inequality. The word 'equality ' is often paired with 'diversity ', which means 'sameness ' and 'difference '. Equality in a nation, is a paradox that shows how social life is often a matter of balance. If we all had to be totally equal, then there would be no progress. Diversity enables creativity and celebrates difference. Yet within this equality in certain …show more content…

One can simply look at the United States in the 1960s, and see how far people are will to go to gain there equality rights. In the 3 fiction story’s “Harrison Bergeron”, Perfect Stanger, and The Ones that walked away, equality is explained in a different matter, the stories explain the true cost of what it would to have an equal society.

In the story “Harrison Bergeron” is about how a society defines “equality”. To the government and its citizens, “equality” means to make everyone the same. In the modern American culture equality is defined as guaranteeing the same rights for all people, and that includes allowing someone to be an individual. However, the society in which George, Hazel, and Harrison live in the government handicaps its people in order to ensure that no one is better than anyone else in anything. If you’re smart like George, you have loud noises pumped into your ears through small ear buds that cut off all thought. For Harrison who is young, handsome, tall, and strong, he is weighed down by 300 lbs of metal, has ear buds, and wears

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