Life has never been fair since the beginning of time. How would people react if everything and everyone was equal in every way. In the story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., everyone is equal and no one is smarter, happier, prettier than anyone else. In the story, the people that are stronger or prettier or smarter are required to wear handicaps such as ear phones, masks, and even weights to try to make everyone equal. For example, George is very intelligent, so his earphones were set so that every twenty minutes he would receive a sharp noise so that he could not keep a train of thought and he could not use his
