"Harrison Bergeron" was published in 1961 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. and many scholars have suggested that the story should be viewed as a parable. Given the tensions in the U. S. during this period of history, what larger point might Kurt Vonnegut Jr. have been trying to make to the reader? |

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was trying to make the point that complete and total equality wouldn't necesairly be a good thing. He was trying to illustrate his point that it could lead to bad things happening, and could make the government and other people go through extreme measures to make sure everyone is totally equal.

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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