Harrison Bergeron who was a seven foot tall man was described like this, “Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.”(3) Everyone in this story is hopeless because Harrison Bergeron escaped and tried to prove a point by taking his handicaps off, but was shot a few moments later nobody knew that he had just been killed. Instead of burning books, they made it virtually impossible to read books. With the handicaps there, nobody ever even thought about or had the time to resist them. The reason “Harrison Bergeron” is more hopeless than Fahrenheit 451 is because there is nothing that can be done because they will always forget