LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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had no recollection
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mourned his death
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rebelled against the government
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Hazel shoots Diana Glampers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why don’t Harrison’s parents respond with more feeling to what they have seen? Harrison’s parents don’t respond with more feeling to what they have seen because their handicaps cause them to forget about sad things.
Detailed explanation-2: -After listening and being moved by the music, Harrison and his Empress dance while flying to the ceiling, then pause in mid-air to kiss. Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, enters the studio and kills Harrison and the Empress with two shotgun blasts.
Detailed explanation-3: -After witnessing their son Harrison shot dead by the Handicapper General on a live television broadcast, Hazel and George are stunned and heartbroken, before suddenly forgetting what has happened due to the ignorance forced upon them through George’s mental handicap and Hazel’s mediocre intelligence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Harrison, in “Harrison Bergeron", dies because of a shot. His death happens when Diana Moon Glampers, who is the character in this short story the Handicapper in charge of regulating citizens to establish equality, breaks into the television studio where he was.