Dec 26, 2009

Harrison Bergeron | Style

Setting
Setting the story 120 years in the future allows readers to more easily accept some of the more absurd events in ‘‘Harrison Bergeron.’’ The actual physical location of the story does not matter and, therefore, is unknown. One glaring anachronism—a concept or an object not known or invented at the time of the story; or an object that belongs to a previous era—should be noted: the use of a shotgun. Readers might expect that some exotic form of weaponry would have been developed and used that far into the future. Similarly, the idea that 213 Amendments to...