"Harrison Bergeron" 🏛️
This character is responsible for regulating the minds and bodies of all to ensure all people are equal.
Who is Diana Moon Glampers?
This is the main character of the story that continues its routines, even though the family is gone.
What is the House?
These two characters are bitter enemies who meet in the forest, both claiming the same piece of land.
Who are Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym?
This is where Tom and Lily are set to go in the beginning of "Searching for Summer".
What is their honeymoon?
This is comparing two unlike things without like or as.
What is a simile?
Harrison Bergeron wears these to counteract any natural advantages and make him "equal" to everyone else.
What are handicaps?
The story takes place in this setting, showing the effects of a nuclear disaster.
What is a post-apocalyptic city AND/OR Allendale, California?
Both men are trapped under this after their struggle in the forest, forcing them to confront each other.
What is a tree?
This grumpy, old character reluctantly helps Lily and Tom on their journey
Who is Mr. Noakes?
Miss King's finacé gives her a bouquet of roses can be associated as a sign of love. What literary device is this? (specifically the roses shown as a sign of love)
What is a symbol?
This is the climax of the short story "Harrison Bergeron".
What is When Harrison Bergeron declares himself the emperor?
The house continues its daily routines even though the family is not there because of this.
What is the family's death in a natural disaster?
While trapped, Ulrich and Georg do this, showing a shift in their relationship.
What is they reconcile/become friends?
This symbol is a representation of hopefulness that Lily and Tom find the sunlight, even associated with the color yellow.
What is Lily's dress?
What is person vs. person conflict?
This theme is achieved by requiring those who are above average to wear handicaps in order to make them "equal".
What is forced equality?
The story suggests a warning about depending too much on this, since it continues even after humans are gone.
What is technology?
The story suggests that holding onto anger, a grudge, and revenge can lead to this outcome.
What is danger OR destruction OR harm?
By working together to bring back summer, the characters demonstrate this important idea.
What is... (answers may vary, but MUST relate to the idea of teamwork/cooperation)?
This is the EXACT format of a parenthetical citation, following a quote used in an academic essay.
What is the author's LAST name, followed by the page number the quote was on, inside a bracket of parenthesis, with the period OUTSIDE the parenthesis?
This symbol represents the government's attempt to suppress intelligence by interrupting thoughts and making it impossible to think deeply.
This theme indicates that even though the House gets destroyed, this symbolizes truth about human creations.
What is... (answers may vary, but MUST relate to how even human technology cannot last forever)?
Just as Ulrich and Georg reconcile and hope for rescue, this happens, highlighting the story’s ultimate irony.
Lily and Tom’s search for summer represents this larger idea in the story.
What is... (answers may vary, but MUST relate to ideas of hope AND/OR determination)?
This is how many days away until Miss King's wedding.