Harrison Bergeron
Hurt. You’re hurt because you’re different. Being told you can’t be smarter or prettier than everyone else. Everyone is exactly like you, everyone except one person making you be the same. Sharp pains enter your head when you attempt to be yourself. You are forced to lose your train of thought. Forgetting what you have been thinking about you just go on as nothing has happened. Yet you wonder. The short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, is an ironic tale of how being equal can be taken to a new level where it is almost wrong.
When making new friends people attempt to fit in, you should really ask yourself is it worth it? By making everyone equal you are taking away the fun and experiences in life. Sure everyone will be equal though everyday would be the same, everyone would be the same, and life would be boring. Yet life still isn’t fair, for your own leader is not the same. You suffer while they are superior. This is so in the film, “Pinocchio”. Harrison and Pinocchio both try and try to fit it but it backfires. They don’t understand that being different is sometimes the best thing.
Differences in personalities make everyone unique. Harrison was unique in body image and mind. He felt different things, thought out of the box, and achieved more than thought possible. Unlike Hazel who did not have to wear any chains or ear pieces so she could be another “perfect” person in society, Harrison had to have all and more. No matter what changing someone for your own likes is not okay. Making them suffer so they can be like you, or who you want them to be is uncalled for. People may be able to tweak and mold others but creativity and greatness will always prevail.
Being the same and equal isn’t worth the pain and suffering of standing out which is apparent in “Harrison Bergeron”. Be yourself and others will follow, only then you will be happy.
