“Harrison Bergeron”
Answer each question by underlining the sentences in the story that support your answer and placing a number in the margins.
1. Describe the setting in “Harrison Bergeron.”
2. What did George have that made him as equal as the others in his society? Describe how it affects George?
3. What makes the ballerinas equal?
4. What are some of the things George thinks about that cause him physical pain? Why might these things cause George physical pain?
5. What were the dark ages?
6. What do we learn Harrison Bergeron has done? How is made handicapped so he is like everyone else?
7. What does Harrison look like?
8. What do Harrison and his “Empress” do and why is it so unusual?
9. Who is Diana Moon Glampers and what power does she have over Harrison?
On the back of the short story, answer questions 10 and 11.
10. What makes “Harrison Bergeron” a story about a dystopian society?
11. What might Kurt Vonnegut be trying to say about our society? Think back to the first two short paragraphs in the story.
Highlight and label any examples of imagery, metaphor or simile that you find.
Imagery: the way in which an author uses words to paint a picture in the reader’s mind
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" Or: One thing conceived as representing another, metaphors tend to have a deeper representation than simile’s
Simile:a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as.
“Harrison Bergeron”
Answer each question by underlining the sentences in the story that support your answer and placing a number in the margins.
1. Describe the setting in “Harrison Bergeron.”
2. What did George have that made him as equal as the others in his society? Describe how it affects George?
3. What makes the ballerinas equal?
4. What are some of the things George thinks about that cause him physical pain? Why might these things cause George physical pain?
5. What were the dark ages?
6. What do we learn Harrison Bergeron has done? How is made handicapped so he is like everyone else?
7. What does Harrison look like?
8. What do Harrison and his “Empress” do and why is it so unusual?
9. Who is Diana Moon Glampers and what power does she have over Harrison?
On the back of the short story, answer questions 10 and 11.
10. What makes “Harrison Bergeron” a story about a dystopian society?
11. What might Kurt Vonnegut be trying to say about our society? Think back to the first two short paragraphs in the story.
Highlight and label any examples of imagery, metaphor or simile that you find.
Imagery: the way in which an author uses words to paint a picture in the reader’s mind
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" Or: One thing conceived as representing another, metaphors tend to have a deeper representation than simile’s
Simile:a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as.