1. Study Guide

2. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

3. compared measurement

4. feelings of anxiety or dismay

5. crouch in fear

6. something providing resistance or obstruction

7. lit up or shiny

8. coordinating events

9. state or quality of being watchful; watchful concerning danger

10. to draw back as if in pain

11. Something misplaced in time period/setting example: the shotgun or the milk coming in bottles

12.  reference to another work of literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sport, etc.  example The H-G Men in Harrison Bergeron are a reference to the practices of the 1940s-50s G-Men & FBI.

13.  Where the story takes place.  What is the setting of the story? A futuristic United States

14.  A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule.  What is the author satirizing? A Utopian society where everyone is equal. This was a satire of the Communism and the Soviet Union. Even a satire on the American ideal and phrase that, “all men are created equal.” If they aren’t born “equal,” society will make them equal.

15.  the narrative voice of the story.  From what point of view is the story told? Third Person Omniscient

16.  Controlling idea of the story.  What is the theme of the story? “All men are created equal”

17.  The people in the story are all equal: mentally, physically, etc. This is ensured by the handicaps given to people who prove to be “different.” 

18.  Fourteen

19.  He has been taken away by the H-G Men for “plotting to overthrow the government.” In reality it was because he was smart, good-looking, and athletic. 

20.  Hazel has a perfectly average intelligence, so she only thinks about things in short bursts. George is more intelligent, so he has to wear a little radio in his ear. Every few seconds it emits a loud sound of some sort so that he can only think about things for that long. Then he loses that train of thought.

21.  On Sundays, the only sound that would come through the transmitters would be chimes in honor of religion.

22.  Diana Moon Glampers

23.  Two years prison and a $2,000 fine for each ball removed.

24.  He believes that if he tried to get away with it, then everyone else would try to get away with it. This would send them back to the “dark ages” where everyone was competing against one another.

25.  He believes that the laws are there for a benefit and for a purpose. These laws should not be challenged, because then who knows what would happen to society

26.  All of the news announcers have speech impediments

27.  She had a very pleasant voice; it was an “unfair” voice for a woman to use.

28.  The Harrison Bergeron had escaped from jail and he is considered armed and dangerous.

29.  He was 7’ tall, but he was weighted down. Scrap metal was hung all over him to make him stoop, and move slower. He was good-looking, so to “fix” that he was ordered to wear a red rubber ball on his nose at all times, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his white teeth with black caps to make him look snaggle-toothed.

30.  That he is the Emperor and he is looking for an Empress.

31.  After Harrison and his “Empress” free the band from their restraints and begin dancing & floating toward the ceiling, Diana Moon Glampers comes in with a ten- gauge shotgun. Harrison and the girl are shot out of the sky and die before they ever reach the ground. The TV dies out and Harrison’s parents forget what they just witnessed.