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Harrison Bergeron Culminating Performance
Task
 Let’s dig a little deeper to see how Vonnegut
uses irony to create satire.
1. To the United States government today, equality means… that everyone
should have equal rights and should be treated the same.
2. To Diana Moon Glampers and the government in Harrison Bergeron ,
equality means…. Everyone must be the same and if you are different they
hide it.
Vonnegut highlights the differences between what the
reader understands equality to mean and how the
government in the story sees equality. By doing this, he
has created satire to expose the faulty thinking of the
government in the story.
 Let’s think about how to determine theme