free response 2, about harrison bergeron

Due to my absence in class the last week i wanted to post my second and third free response. As i was reading Harrison Bergeron I became very confused. Th story itself kept me interested enough to want to know what had happened but also because I wantede it to clear my confusion. In the beginning it introduced the story as a time when everyone was equal, which set me up for the thoughts that maybe this story would be very interesting, and not that it wasnt but it sure was not what I was expecting. It seemed as if this story was a real life event I would hate it. The government was limiting peoples thoughts and keeping a hold on anyone who wanted to go against it with these handicap radios in their ears. By labeling them handicap you would think that they had a "problem", but in reality (well to me) there was no problem at all. They wanted to have the sense of controlling and that is exactly what they did, because when the time came when Harrison showed himself without this handicap radio and his handicap metals he was looked upon as a threat or dangerous. When truthfully he was not. But when people started to realize what could happen (being shot) they did not choose to follow in fear. So I would hope that this would NEVER happen in real life if so i dont want to be around for this. I think our minds are beautiful and if there are being monitored, controlled or whatever the case may be it limits us, and i personally think only ourselves should be able to limit us.