The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides. Scrap metal was hung all over him.
Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds.
And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random. Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set. The photograph of Harrison Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake. George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have - for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune.
The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile collision in his head. When George could open his eyes again, the photograph of Harrison was gone. A living, breathing Harrison filled the screen. Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood - in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand. Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die.
I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once! Now watch me become what I can become! Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds. Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.
He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder. Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with marvelous delicacy.
Last of all he removed her mask. Important Quotes Explained. Kurt Vonnegut and Harrison Bergeron Background. Characters Character List. The Ballerina-Turned-Announcer A dancer. The Empress A dancer, possibly the same character as the ballerina-turned-announcer. The Announcer A newscaster. Next section Harrison Bergeron. Popular pages: Harrison Bergeron. He looks like a god. He says that the first woman brave enough to stand up will be his empress.
A ballerina rises to her feet. Harrison removes her handicaps and mask, revealing a beautiful woman. He orders the musicians to play, saying he will make them royalty if they do their best. Unhappy with their initial attempt, Harrison conducts, waving a couple of musicians in the air like batons, and sings. They try again and do better. After listening to the music, Harrison and his empress dance. Defying gravity, they move through the air, flying thirty feet upward to the ceiling, which they kiss.
Then, still in the air, they kiss each other. Diana Moon Glampers comes into the studio and kills Harrison and the empress with a shotgun. Training the gun on the musicians, she orders them to put their handicaps on. George, who has left the room to get a beer, returns and asks Hazel why she has been crying.
Must have been a faulty bulb—no way it was government intervention, right? But then it turns out that George had gone to get a beer, so it appears he missed the whole thing. Hazel cries, but soon can't remember why. Life quickly returns to normal. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Kurt Vonnegut.
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