Harrison
Year 2081 and everyone in America is equal to one another. Nobodyis smarter, better looking, stronger or quicker than anyone else. It is because of the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution. It is April, Handicapper General's men take away George and Hazel Bergeron's 14-year-old son, Harrison. The couple are sitting watching ballerinas dance on television. George has an intelligence way above normal and is required by law to wear a little mental handicap radio in his ear, which is tuned into a government transmitter. George looks tired to Hazel so she suggests he make a little whole in the 47-pound handicap bag to let out some lead balls. Instead, George says he doesn't want to be put in prison for doing something like that. He said if everyone started to do that, then they'd be back to the Dark Ages where everyone was competing one another. Meanwhile, the television program was interrupted for a news bulletin. One of the ballerinas took the bulletin to read since the announcer was having trouble reading it. She said that Harrison Bergeron had escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion for plotting to overthrown the government. He is regarded as extremely dangerous for he was u
nder-handicapped and a genius. The police photograph of Harrison was flashed on the screen. Instead of wearing a little ear radio for mental handicap, he wore a huge pair of earphones and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. They made him half blind and gave him banging headaches. All of a sudden, Harrison entered the studio. Everyone was down on their knees, expecting to die. Harrison cried he was the Emperor and was going to rule. He tore away the handicaps, headphones and spectacles and threw them against the wall. He said the first woman to rise to her feet would be his Empress. When one of the ballerinas arose, Harrison snatched off her mental handicap from her ear and her physical handicaps, including her mask, which then exposed a beauty. He got the musicians to play their best while he and his new woman danced. They danced first on ground and then high into the air, just below the ceiling. They kissed the ceiling and then they kissed one another. Then came in Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun, which she fired twice, killing both arrison and his mate. The Bergerons' television burned out and George asked his wife why she was crying. She said she forgot. George told her that it's good to always forget sad things.
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Approximate Word count = 1844
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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