... new technology, medicine, and literature have been permanently handicapped, exiled, or killed. Television announcers have speech impediments, dancers cannot dance, musicians are tone deaf, and families lose all purpose, continuity, compassion, and love. A good example of this is Harrison Bergeron's story. Harrison escapes from an asylum that was meant to protect society from him. Fourteen years old and already seven feet ... , he says, that for many people is another word for a bathroom receptacle. While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate