Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut

1961

a young man named Harrison Bergeron, his parents, George and Hazel, and the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers are the main characters

The society depicted by Vonnegut is one where everybody must be perfectly average, and those that aren’t are forced to wear handicaps. Harrison Bergeron refuses to conform, so he tears off all handicaps that keep him average.

the simple language used in describing the characters and the main events

the ending, where there is no mention of what happened to Harrison or the ballerina after the TV screen went black