Harrison Bergeron

Gautam, Uchisda, and Matthew make their way up to the front of the classroom to give a presentation of a lifetime. The presentation starts off strong with a precursor to the story to provide the audience with the knowledge needed to derive any context clues. In this story, Harrison claimed himself as a emperor and gets killed. Diversity of voices is present in this short story, giving a voice to the underrepresented individuals. Hazel is average, George is conformist, and Harrison is rebellious. The handicapper general is omnipresent, is responsible for surveillance, and controls the narrative. The presenters produce a question to capture the audience's attention, are the individuals in the story even human anymore? They are constantly being monitored and are not able to have natural conversations. There is overall lack of humanity in this short story, including questioning of authority, leashed liberty and passivity of the masses. People are too afraid to make a hcange, Harrison also represents the futility of rebellion. Intertextuality is a important trait of the story, it is how meaning is constructing to other works, genres and forms. The hubris in this short story contains the parallels between Harrison and Icarus, both of them believe they are free from the constraints of society. Next, the hosts talk about playfullness and irony, fragmentation, and hyperreality in depth. This concludes the presentation, the presenters declare the activity. They split up the class into groups and provide a story to re-word or re-interpret in a post modern way. This presentation was very enjoyable and interesting. The presenters were well rehearsed and performed this feat as fluid as possible.