In the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , it is 64 years in the future year 2081, and the government is in complete control. Instead of embracing everyone's talents and unique traits they make those talents and traits unusable by giving everyone “handicaps”. These “handicaps” are form basically a form of torture and if you rebel they will punish you, badly. Although it is not equal for everyone, anyone with power does not have any handicaps. The author uses techniques such as parallel structure and sentence fragments. Some effects of these techniques are pacing and fluency, emphasis, and exaggeration. The first technique the author used is parallel structure. A great example of this technique is, “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else” (1). This technique causes effects like emphasis on the point Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is trying to make about equality among people. This technique also causes exaggeration about the equality in the society they are living in. As a result the reader understands that everyone is “equal” in all aspects. Theses aspects include intelligence, beauty, and strength. These effects show the reader …show more content…
Another interesting example is the quote,
“ ‘Forget sad things,’ said George.
‘I always do,’ said Hazel.” (5). The author uses this technique to create effects such as pacing and fluency, which in this story is choppy and uneven. The short, quick thoughts the characters are having create the effects in the story. Other than affecting the pacing and fluency the readers learns a lot about the character's intelligence and thought patterns. For example you learn that they can only think in short quick thoughts. For some characters that is because of a handicap for others it's just because that's just how they think. The reader also learns they aren’t capable of comprehending advanced