Plot Structure & Organization
When does the story take place?
What is 2081?
"Gee - I could tell that one was a doozy," said Hazel.
What is bad or unusual?
Why does George wear a transmitter?
What is to handicap his above average intelligence?
The government claims that its system will create equality, but instead, it creates _________________.
What is sameness?
The word in bold appeals to which sense?
Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.
What is to hear or sound?
What event serves as the story's major inciting incident, setting the central conflict into motion?
What is the prison escape?
The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches.
What is adjusted or measured?
What is to handicap beauty?
What established or guarantees equality?
What part of speech are the parallel words: Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood - in the center of the studio.
What are adjectives?
How do George and Hazel learn about Harrison's whereabouts?
What is police bulletin and photograph?
Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set.
What is shock or surprise?
What two characteristics make Harrison dangerous?
What is genius and athlete?
What is the missing word:
"If I tried to get away with it," said George, "then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody ________________. against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?"
What is competing or competition?
His thoughts fled in panic...
What is personification?
What is the major turning point in the story? Climatic moment?
What is Harrison tearing off handicaps and dancing with the ballerina?
Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while-listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it.
What is serious or with intent?
What handicap causes Harrison to have headaches and be "half blind"?
What are glasses?
What does handicap mean within the story or how are they used?
What is as punishment or limitation?
A moment passed, and then a ballerina arose, swaying like a willow.
What is simile?
What was Hazel's reaction to what she saw on tv?
What is forgets?
He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.
What is faint or dim or distant?
Why does Hazel not have handicaps?
What is average?
What does Diana Moon Glampers symbolize?
What is suppression or control of individual freedom and expression?
What figurative language is used in this sentence:
Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.
What is metaphor?