Relating Questions to Harrison Bergeron

1. Life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone were totally equal. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer in complete sentences.

• If everyone were totally equal, I don't think life in Vietnam would be perfect because it would be less developed compared to other countries who keep things unequal therefore they can share ideas. Some people maybe smarter than others and with intelligence, we can help the country improve.

2. You are designing a society in which everyone is equal. What are the laws?

• The laws would be:

                1. whether you have talent or not, you must do specific things to not increase your intelligence from the rest
                2. lower level people must work harder or will be fined
                3. advance people must work rather than study or it depends

3. What would you do to help who were less capable mentally, physically, or socially to "catch up"?

• In order for me to help the less capable, I would make a law for all schools to pay attention to the less capable before moving on to another thing in order to catch up.

4. What problems can you foresee that might come in a society with laws that force "equality for all"? How would you handle those problems?

• I can imagine smart people getting rich and lower level people getting poor because the intelligent people can use their intelligence in order to be successful while the lower level people are suffering. I would handle these types of problem by making some things equal and some not.

5. Do you believe that total equality is possible, or would human nature make sure that some people would eventually dominate others?

• It maybe possible but at the same time some people may dominate others. How? They can dominate others depending on how high class they are. If they are rich, they are most likely be able to do what they want. If they are not rich, they are able to do less things. The more money you have, the more power you have.

6.  In what situations have you felt similarly to any of the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experience came to mind while you were reading this story? Try to list at least two examples.

• 1. When I sometimes try to state an effective idea to my parents, they deny it because they find my thought childish, therefore they use their own ideas instead. So it's like the smart people having to be given weights in order to have less power.
• 2. Since I'm the youngest in the house, I'm mostly the one being told to do things. So it's like my older cousins are the government and i'm the citizens that are being told to do things.