Kurt Vonnegut, the author of a book called “Harrison Bergeron”. In the book, there is mainly four characters: Hazel- which is Harrisons mother, George-which is Harrisons father, Handicapper General or Diana Moon Glampers who seems to be almost a dictator, and Harrison Bergeron- which is the main character. The beginning is just an ordinary couple watching tv. Since it is in 2081 there is a thing called handicaps which make everything equal. George and Hazel have a son named Harrison, Harrison was very intelligent, strong, and handsome. He got taken to jail because he wanted to be independent. Six years later he escapes prison and breaks into this ballet show, goes onto stage with so many handicaps and takes off all his handicaps and asks for …show more content…
One of the differences in the story is how in the book Harrison is fourteen and in the movie Harrison is twenty. The producers probably made this change because at age fourteen people can’t really have as much strength and knowledge as much as Harrison has in both the book and the movie, it made more sense to have a more older and primer person than a person at age fourteen. Another difference is in the book George gets up to get a beer and Hazel watches, and in the movie Hazel gets up and George watches. The producers changed this because I think that since George is a little smarter than Hazel that they think that he should watch it not Hazel who can barely remember a thing. The last important difference is that in the book Harrison just dances with the ballerina and then the tv goes out whereas in the movie Harrison says that he has a bomb, which is really a transmitter to turn the tv back on. The producers probably made this change because they wanted to have the effect of horror and suspense. The audience is thinking it is a bomb but then it turns out to be a transmitter to turn the tv on for the whole world to see the handicapper general shoot at Harrison and the ballerina. The differences make each story have a different feeling on the reader and the