Part A: The correct answer is first statement. The major
theme of “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut is that close-minded
people are a threat to beauty, individuality, and self-expression. In this short
story, Kurt wanted to present that total equality isn’t always good by creating
a dystopia in which, to achieve equality, close-minded people are targeting
intelligent, strong and beautiful people and strip them of their extraordinary
characteristics. Those who represent individualism are being handicapped by Handicapper
General so that others won’t feel inferior.
Part B: Evidence from the text that best represents answer
in part A is the second one. By describing how hard government is working to
make everyone equal, Vonnegut is directing reader’s attention on the concept of
dystopian society to show how cruel it can be on those with “extraordinary
characteristics”. Close-minded people feel inferior to individualists and by
trying to be equal to them they treat their beauty, intelligence and strength,
instead of trying to achieve more.
<span>In Japan today people still feel a strong connection with the samurai.</span>
He finally said, “What else should I wish for but eternal happiness, and that we two, as long as we live, may be healthy and have every day our daily bread; for the third wish, I do not know what to have.” The lord suggested that the man might want a new house. The poor man said that it would be nice to have that. The Lord left and the couple was soon surprised to see a brand new house where their old house once stood.
The correct answer is A. My father, a huge baseball fan, taught me to throw when I was three.
Explanation
An appositive expression is a sentence that is composed of a noun or a noun phrase that is followed by another noun or pronoun and explains it in the complement of the sentence. For the above, it can be said that the correct answer is "A. My father, a huge baseball fan, taught me to throw when I was three" because it has the first noun "My father", the second noun "a huge baseball fan "and the complement where he explains it" taught me to throw when I was three"
