Schools do this too by placing students into classes with people of similar intelligence. In Lord of the Flies, intelligence is seen inferior to physical strength. Piggy is not favored among the other kids because Jack didn’t like him. “There ain't nothing we can do. We ought to be more careful. I'm scared… You're always scared. Yah ---- Fatty!”(Golding 45). Jack felt the need to belittle Piggy in order to bring himself up. In putting Piggy down, Jack revealed his insecurities because Jack would not have criticized Piggy if he did not feel threatened by Piggy. In “Harrison Bergeron” people who were smarter had to have handicaps to make them less intelligent. Harrison “is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous”(Vonnegut). Instead of geniuses being celebrated they are seen as extremely dangerous. A society without