" From this description we can conclude he has impeccable eyesight, is a genius and also that the government is very cruel, does not care that he's only 14 and is determined to ensure equality. He is so gorgeous that he's "required to wear a red rubber ball on his nose, keep his eyebrows shaven and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snuggle-tooth random. " This quotation implies that the people in 2081 are so insecure that anyone better looking than them has to be made ugly so they can still feel good about themselves. In addition Harrison, being so large, has to have scrap metal attached to him, making him look more like a junk yard than a man so he ends up carrying 300 pounds. This is society's way of equalizing everyone: not by trying to get other people to beef up and smarten up to Harrison's level, but by punishing Harrison and bringing him down to everyone else's level. Carrying around three hundred pounds of scrap metal on a daily basis isn't going to weaken you: it's eventually going to make you that much stronger. Being weighed down by scrap metal is just like being oppressed. Suffer under repression for long enough, and you will eventually be willing to do just about anything to be free. Harrison was pushed far enough that he snapped and broke the bonds of the society, he could have just accepted the system for what it is like everyone else but instead he decides to fight it. Later on in the story Harrison escapes prison and breaks into the television studio where a live broadcast is under way by tearing the door off from its hinges, which really demonstrates how strong he is since he is still bearing his Handicaps. "Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their bees before him, expecting to die. " He was that enraged and fed up it must have shown on his face, those people thought he was going to murder them.
