Tuesday, October 19, 2010

quotation sandwich

pg.135
Claim: The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote: Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the handicapper general, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers.

Commentary: the society is not as equal as the people make it out to be. Diana is higher than the other people, just because she's the general Diana has no handicaps at all, shes the one that gives them to the other people. she threatens people who take them off. But they wanted them all to be the same then they would have given them all of the same handicaps.

Monday, October 11, 2010

My short summary:
Tom 
was addicted to his work all of his life and neglected his wife because of it. he lost his yellow sheet of paper because it blew out of the window. he thought it was necessary to go retrieve the piece of paper, so he climbed a building and risked his life. He was hanging on the building scared for life. He had to smash a window to get back into the house. the experience made him realize that his wife was more important. so he went to find her and he only weighed the piece of paper down with a pencil and it blew away again.
-Did Clare ever find out that tom went on the journey to get the paper back?
-why was his work so important to him?
-Why did he want to get the paper back so bad?
-Where they rich because he worked so hard?