Compare and Contrast Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut,...

Writing short stories is common for most writers but the writer must give a powerful message in as few pages as they can. While comparing and contrasting short stories â€Å"Harrison Bergeron† written by Kurt Vonnegut, and â€Å"A Saucer of Loneliness† written by Theodore Sturgeon, I found that both stories were science fiction and they both offer scenarios to fascinating what if situations. In this case, both stories answer what if questions to situations where the government controls, but they also relay hidden personal meaning. First, the core plots of both stories is different but I found similarities between the two. Harrison Bergeron is a story that’s based in the United States in the year 2081, where the government creates total equality†¦show more content†¦After she was released, the government continued to follow and watch her closely, and the public and people she dated even bothered her about the saucer’s message. Eventually, she hid from the public, and one day she began tossing bottles with messages inside of them into the ocean every day hoping someone would find them and understand her message. A man found them, and he understood the message. It took him two years to study water currents and wind trails to find her, but when he found her, it was almost too late, as she was attempting to drown herself in the sea. Second, as there are only a few characters in both short stories, they are very different characters but left imprints in my mind. First, in â€Å"Harrison Bergeron† there is Harrison Bergeron who is 14 years old, a genius, a strong athlete, and wears the strongest handicaps of all the people such as bifocals to damage his sight, three hundred pound weights hold him down, and the loudest ear radio. Second, there is Harrison’s father, George Bergeron who is also handicapped by the government for being smart and strong. Third, his mother, Hazel Bergeron who doesn’t need any handicaps because they classify her as an average American who lacks smarts, beauty, and brains. Then the TV announcer who has a speech impediment tried to speak for a few moments on an interrupted new cast, but then passes the microphone to a ballerina to read, who people could tell was beautiful, and strong because