An announcer with a speech impediment attempted to read it, but finally a ballerina jumped in to help. He knew they were necessary to keep everyone in society from competing the way they had decades ago.Īll of the sudden a news bulletin interrupted the television show. George knew the punishment was two years in prison and two thousand dollars for every ball he took out, so he declined. Hazel noted that George looked tired and suggested he take off the sacks of lead balls that were padlocked to his neck to rest for awhile. The Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers, picked the sounds that they heard. Two of them wore the radios in their ears and when George heard the sound of a milk bottle being hit with a hammer, they winced too. Some of the dancers had weights tied to them or masked faces because they were too graceful or too beautiful. The couple was sitting and watching ballerinas on television. Every twenty seconds or so he would hear a sharp noise that would keep him from maintaining focus on anything for too long. His father, George, possessing higher intelligence, was required by law to wear a mental handicap radio in his ear at all times.
His mother Hazel possessed perfectly average intelligence, which only allowed her to think about things in short bursts.
This event was sad, but his parents did not dwell on it. In April the Bergerons' son Harrison, who was fourteen-years-old, was taken away by H-G men to prison. At this time they have passed the 213th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in an effort to try to make everyone equal. The short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., takes place in the home of Hazel and George Bergeron in the year 2081.
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