Hazel was not handicapped because of what?

There are no handicaps on Hazel because she represents 2081 America's idea of equality. More accurately, she is clearly Kurt Vonnegut's example of the lowest common denominator that everyone must be handicapped to become like.

There are no handicaps on Hazel because she represents 2081 America's idea of equality. More accurately, she is clearly Kurt Vonnegut's example of the lowest common denominator that everyone must be handicapped to become like.

Explanation:

yes, it can be both.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.