Humanities Homework Help

Parzival’s spaceship is named Vonnegut.

Read the short story. Many different PDFs are available on line. Answer the following questions in your own words and please give a referance for PDF

1. When and where does the story take place?
2. What are “handicaps” in this story?
3. Who has to wear handicaps?
4. How does the government prevent people from thinking through their ideas?
5. Does that method remind you of anything in the modern reality?
6. Who is smarter: George Bergeron or his wife? How do we know?
7. What handicaps is Harrison Bergeron required to wear? Why?
8. When the ballerina joined Harrison Bergeron in the dance, did she know she will be killed for it? What makes you think so?
9. If both Harrison and the ballerina knew they would be killed, why did they choose to dance anyway?
10. Who killed Harrison Bergeron? Why?
11. What was his parents’ reaction to his execution? why?
12.Vonnegut wrote the story as a warning and a thought experiment. Did anything in his warning come true? What makes you think so?
13. What stood out to you the most in the story? Why?
14. Google Kurt Vonnegut. Name two things that you find interesting about him.
15. In your opinion, why did Ernest Cline select Vonnegut as a name for Parzival’s ship?