![]() We are just told that he has been taken away: nothing more. The idea that one’s fourteen-year-old son could be taken away simply for being unusually strong and intelligent is abominable.Īnd yet Vonnegut doesn’t actually tell us why Harrison is taken away initially. ![]() Such an analysis is certainly defensible when we turn to the story and witness the ways in which, for instance, George Bergeron is effectively punished for his natural intellect by being bombarded with state-sanctioned noises on a regular basis: a peculiar kind of torture. ![]() In one respect, then, Vonnegut’s story reads as a bedfellow of those satires which view communism or socialism as a way of making everyone equally miserable and poor, rather than trying to make everyone equally successful and financially comfortable. ![]()
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