Inglés I: segundo parcial.

Hechos en la casa de los Bergeron.

Parte 2: oral: Módulos 1, 2, 3 y 4 Sección 3 Harrison Bergeron.
1- Who lived in the Bergeron house?
a. En pares, se realizarán preguntas sobre el contenido de la historia.
Hazel and George lived in the house.
El/la docente propondrá un tema: personajes, hechos en la casa
de los Bergeron, hechos que se ven por TV, diferencias entre la 2- Why didn´t Harrison lives with George and Hazel?
película y la historia.
Because Harrison Bergeron was taken away from his parents,
Personajes: (characters) George and Hazel, by the government.

1) Who are the characters in the story? 3- Can they remember that tragedy?

The characters are Harrison Bergeron, George, Hazel and Diana Moon
Glampers (she is the Handicapper General).
2) Who were George and Hazel?
George and Hazel were Harrison´s parents.
3) Who was the Handicapper General?
The Handicapper General was Diana Moon Glampers, she was the
dictatorial president of the United States.
4) What was she doing?
She had to ensure that the laws were implemented, for that she used a
team of agents ensured that the laws of equality were enforced.
5) Who is your favourite character? Why?
My favourite character is Harrison Bergeron because he faced against
to the totalitarian government. He was very strong and intelligent.
6) What happened when George started to think of Harrison?
The government was transmitted noise over the radios to interrupt the
thoughts of intelligent people like George.
No, they couldn´t remember and they weren´t fully aware of the
tragedy. Hazel´s lack of awareness was due to average intelligent.
While George couldn’t comprehend the tragedy because the law
required him to wear a radio twenty-four hours a day.
4- When did the government take Harrison away?
When he had fourteen-year-old.
5- What kind of handicap did George have? Why?
He had radios to interrupt his thought because he was smart. And
he had weight on his neck to reduce his strength.
6- Why did Hazel cry while watching TV at the end of the story?
Because she knew that something sad happened on TV, but she
couldn't remember exactly what. She didn't remember sad things.
 Hechos que se ven por TV.
1) What were Hazel and George watching on TV?
Hazen and George were watching ballerinas dance on TV. Hazel enjoyed
the dancers´ performance very much. While George reflected on the
dancers.
2) What handicap did the ballerinas have?
Ballerinas did have weights to reduce their grace and wore masks to
conceal their beauty.
3) Who gives the message that Harrison escaped from prison?
First, an announcer with a speech impediment tried to read the news
report. But he couldn´t overcome his impediment, so he gave it to a
ballerina to read. Therefore, ballerina read the news report and said
that Harrison had escaped from prison.
4) What event interrupts the transmission?
That Harrison walked into the studio violently.
5) What did Harrison say to the audience?
He said that he was the emperor, the greatest ruler in history, and that
everyone had to obey him. After that, he said that the first woman
brave enough to stand up would be his empress.
6) How does the transmission end?
Diana Moon Glampers (she is the Handicapper General) entered the
studio and then to killed Harrison and the Empress with a shotgun.
Diferencias entre la película y la historia.
i. How did Hazen and George find out that Harrison had escaped from
prison?
In the story because a ballerina read the news. In the movie because a
journalist said the news in TV.
ii. What does Harrison look in the photo of him in the media?
In the story Harrison was wearing the handicap to reduce his strength,
intelligence and good look. In the film, Harrison looked like Christ on
the cross.
iii. How did the journalist describe Harrison?
In the film, he said that Harrison was an anarchist, that he had been
arrested for vandalism and other crimes prohibited under law. In the
story the ballerina only read the news.
iv. Where did Harrison was?
In the movie the journalist said Harrison had been awaiting trial in a
maximum-security prison in Washington DC, when Harrison
miraculously disappeared from his cell. In the story the journalist said
Harrison had been in prison, but not which prison.
v. Hazel and George watch the news?
In the film, George watched the news, while Hazel washed the dishes.
In the story, Hazel watched the news, while George had gone for a beer.
vi. What happened when Harrison walked into the studio violently?
In the film he shouts that had a bomb beneath theatre and that he had
detonator in his hand. in the story, Harrison didn´t say that, he said that
he was the Emperor.
 b. Hablar sobre la biografía de Kurt Vonnegut en 4
oraciones.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in United States in 1922. Vonnegut, when United
States intervention in World Warr II, he was a member of Reserve Officers
Training Corps. He was an American writer. // Vonnegut died in the New
York City in 2007. When died he was 84 years old. At the time of his death,
he had written fourteen novels, one of them “Harrison Bergeron”.

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c. Lista de preguntas a responder para el examen en no
más de 3 oraciones. El/la docente elegirá 1 o 2 en el
momento del examen.
1. Why is this a dystopian story?
Because it is set in an undesirable future, where people live in a society
that forced social equality on the citizens by means of government
programs and enforcement. With a tyrannical government that oppresses
the people and controls everything (for example, the media).
2. What does the opening sentence, “The year was 2081, and
everyone was finally equal” imply?
* Imply that nobody was stupid, uglier, weaker or slower than anyone else.
Every American was fully equal, and nobody could be different or stand out
from the rest.
3. What are the functions of the agents of “the United States
Handicapper General”?
* They work to the Handicapper General, therefore they had to ensure that
the laws of equality were enforced. So, they had to force people to wear
their handicap all the time.
4. Is there gender bias in the story?
* No, in the story men are equal to women, so there is no gender bias. The
woman was as oppressed as the man.
5. In the story there is general mediocrity. In what way do the
characters show this mediocrity?
* Because the people smart can´t thought by the "handicaps" they should
use all time and they doesn´t remember anything they think. Also, to have
people like Hazel with lack of awareness due to average intelligence, those
who unable to think for long periods of time. And that the ballerinas had to
dance on TV with weights and masks.
6. Who didn’t wear a handicap? Why?
* For example, Hazel don´t used handicap was due to average intelligence
that she had, therefore it is not necessary. The handicap is for persons
smart, beautiful or strong. She was just average.
7. Why was Harrison Bergeron imprisoned?
* Because Harrison was very smart, strong, beautiful and rebel. He was too
dangerous for the government because he could cause problems and
challenge them.
9. Why did Hazel Bergeron forget what she was crying about?
* Hazel, in all story, due to her average intelligence she wasn't fully aware
and she couldn't remember anything she saw.
10. Do you think Harrison knew he would die due to his
behaviour? Were you shocked by his death?
* I really think he knew and he decided die for the all Americans, like a
sacrifice for society. I shocked for violence in his death.
11. Is there a moral to this story? What is it?

* The moral to the story is the important of freedom, democracy and

accept that all people are different.

12. Was the government totalitarian? Why? Why not?

* Yes, because the government it controls everything, for example, the

media. And the government totalitarian, in the story, forced social equality
on the citizens by means of government programs. Also, breaking a law
could lead to death.

13. What is the role of television in the story?

* Television was controlled for the government. In the story, Hazel and
George watched TV all time. They saw on television that Harrison had
escaped from prison, because the government published the news in it.
This is example the control about media.

14. Why is equality negative in this story?

* Because nobody can´t to be better or worse than other in anything

aspect. Nobody was stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else.
Every American was fully equal, for that forced use handicap.

15. Did you like this story? Why? Why not?

Yes, because I like the dystopias and this story shows totalitarian
governments that, with other characteristics, existed in real live and real
history. I find it interesting.