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They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.  \nSome things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away. It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.  \nGeorge and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about.  \nOn the television screen were ballerinas.  \nA buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.  \n“That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did,” said Hazel.  \n“Huh?” said George.  \n“That dance—it was nice,” said Hazel.  \n“Yup,” said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.  \nGeorge winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas.  \nHazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been.  \n“Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball-peen hammer,” said George.  \n“I’d think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds,” said Hazel, a little envious.“All the things they think up.”  \n“Um,” said George.  \n“Only, if I was Handicapper General, you know what I would do?” said Hazel. Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers.“If I was Diana Moon Glampers,” said Hazel,“I’d have chimes on Sunday—just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion.”  \n“I could think, if it was just chimes,” said George.  \n“Well—maybe make ’em real loud,” said Hazel.“I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”  \n“Good as anybody else,” said George.  \n“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.  \n“Right,” said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his headstopped that.  \n“Boy!” said Hazel,“that was a doozy, wasn’t it?”  \nIt was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes. Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor and were holding their temples.  \n“All of a sudden you look so tired,” said Hazel.“Why don’t you stretch out on the sofa, so’s you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch.” She was referring to the forty-seven pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag which was padlocked around George’s neck.“Go on and rest the bag for a little while,” sh","cbCaimhSHsRIp2DB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimhSHsRIp2DB","pdf",487761,"English","# Harrison Bergeron\n## The year 2081 and enforced equality\n## George and Hazel’s television moment","[{\"question\":\"How does the government enforce equality in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Equality is maintained through constitutional amendments and the unceasing vigilance of agents, including devices that handicap people’s minds and abilities.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is George required to wear a mental handicap device?\",\"answer\":\"He is legally required to wear a radio tuned to a government transmitter that interrupts his thoughts at regular intervals to prevent unfair advantages.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens to Harrison Bergeron in the narrative?\",\"answer\":\"In the month that still refuses to feel like spring, Harrison is taken away from George and Hazel by H-G agents, and it becomes a central source of grief and helplessness for the family.\"}]","Harrison Bergeron - Story | PDF",1790872949]