The year was 2081 in the story "Harrison Bergeron" and everybody was finally equal. But they were also equal in intelligence, strength, and every quality and attribute. The smart people had to wear handicaps which were government microphones that every 20 seconds or so would make a really loud noise so you wouldn't think to much. George Bergeron had one of these. His wife, Hazel Bergeron, had perfectly average intelligence, which meant she didn't need one. In April, the month no one likes, their 14 year-old son, Harrison Bergeron, got taken away by the Handicap General's men. A bit later, they were watching ballerinas on T.V. and an announcement came up saying that he escaped. It showed a picture of him being 7 feet tall, and wearing a clown nose, a bunch of metal scraps, giant headphones, and thick, wavy glasses to humiliate him and make him half-blind. Suddenly, the T.V. studio starts to shake, and Harrison rips the door of it's hinges and comes in. He rips off all of the scrap metal off of him, and everything else too. He looked so stunning, he would've even amazed Thor, the god of thunder. He bellows,"I am the Emperor! Everyone must do as I say at once!" He then chooses his Empress and takes off her handicaps and made the musicians play the best music they had. They danced up to the ceiling and kissed it. Then, the Handicap General Diana Moon Glampers barges in with a double barreled 10 gauge shotgun and killed them both. Everyone had to put their handicaps back on and forgot what happened. THE END.
I read this story in English class and I liked it. I want to know why the author made the story end the way it did. Also, I hope that what happened in the story doesn't happen in real life. That would SUCK!!!!
The vocab. word I chose was bellow. To bellow means to say something really loud, like what he said above.
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Hi Nic,
ReplyDeleteYour blogs are up to date although you didn't blog at all last week. I'm glad you are reading a lot and excited about it. I want you to try to consolidate your summaries to 3-5 sentences which means that you need to give the gist of the story ith fewer details. Then, for your reflection, this should be aligned with your old reading strategies: a QUESTION about the text or author's meaning, a PREDICTION about what will happen next and/or a CONNECTION you made with the story (self, test or world); this should beef up the reflections to 3-5 sentences.
The only vocab word you goofed was CONCEITED, it means to be full-of-oneself or arrogant. CONCEDED is to agree with or give to another.
Keep up the good work!
Ms. M.