Response Journal Of Harisson Bergeron Short Story By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Response Journal Of Harisson Bergeron

Well, exactly i don’t know where should i start to tell. The point is this short story is such a fool. It started  from an era in 2081 humans were equal in every way so that there are no competitions in the world. I think life without competition is really boring. Ofcourse, when all things in this world changed into resemblance, there will be nothing special, there will be human who try for struggling something to be achieved.

I felt a little curious about the writer of this short story then i searched information about him in internet. Then i found myself on amazement because the writer, Kurt Vennegut Jr. is one of famous story writer in America. He also got some appreciations for his prose. That was comparable with his suffering life in 1970 when his sister died, fallen apart with his wife  and her son was suffering a heavy disease. Fotunately, he died in 2007. Now we just can appreciate his prose. Well, about his prose, Vonnegut powerly expressed his sense that corporate greed, overpopulation and war would in the end win out over simple humanity.

I think Vennegut made this short story to insinuate American goverment that nowadays causes a commotion about equality in the country. All of the citizens are regarded to be equal with no exception. It might be a good reason why Vennegut created this story by imagining gloomy future that would happen if resemblance led everything.

From point of view, i think Vennegut took omniscent point, where, he didn’t indicate one of the character as media of his story. Every character has their own role. Eventhought the title of the story is Harisson Bergeron, i don’t think that Harisson is the main character here. Isn’t main character a character that dominate the story? But Harisson didn’t dominate the story i guess. All characters have role in nearly same portion.

It is good to take omnicent as the point of view because the writer can control the situation toward the characters to be read by readers. Vennegut is out of the story,  just as an observer who knows every characters well. With this, he can tell everything which is needed and can control the story everytime. The used language often showed instructions that something is done by another person.

Although, Diana Moon Glampers is a flat character, which appears in a little portion of the story, but her role is really affecting. She just appeared once in the last of the story that finally killed Harisson, who tried to rebel toward this gloomy equality world. Her coming closed the story out by healing the destruction by Harrison so that the world was getting saved from a rebel like Harisson (in her and goverment view).

Vennegut succeed to make me feel dreadful to imagine a gloomy future like this story. I think to live in the equality with handicap set up on our body like George, Hazel, Harisson and the others do is really boring. Bringing about forty-pond-heavy thing, covering our face by mask, and other rules that is set up by the goverment is not a good choice to develope our life in all ways. By the way, eventhough there are some words that i can not identify the meaning, but the story is can be understood enough.

Well, overall this story is such a tickling and interesting enough. I think it would be bad if the future like that happend. Because distinction is good. People have distinction to recognize and respect each other. Distinction might causes competition, but a good competition is proper to be preserved. Competition means people try to show their abilities and try to get “excess” than the others to meet their achievement. When we try hard to get something and finally we get it, there will be a satisfied in ourselves, right? But if we try our best and we get lost to achieve our goal because the goverment emphasized the equality like handicapper general does in the story, all of our struggles are useless and it makes us depressed. Well, don’t you think that sometimes equality will not bring us to the improvement? I can get these conclusions toward this Vennegut’s short story.