LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Question
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What is most unsettling about the ending of “Harrison Bergeron”?
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There is death
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There is a bomb threat
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Harrison’s parents can’t remember he was murdered
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Nothing changes in the end
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The story focuses on a couple, George and Hazel Bergeron, whose fourteen-year-old son Harrison is taken away so that he can be ‘handicapped’ because he is abnormally strong and intelligent.
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