1. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
He used setting in a huge way to tell about how everything happened. ... "They were equal every which way. ... Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else" ("Vonnegut 167) This quote shows that the Government is trying to be stronger than everyone else and they are scared that people would be able to overrun the government and would be stronger and smarter than them if they didn't change things and make people stupid and try to control things more than what they are controlled right now. ... They had no freedom, they were made to carry around weights and had an ear piece that would ...
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