Answer: A) Close minded people are a threat to beauty, individuality and self expression.
The main theme of Harrison Bergeron is that equality eradicates the freedom, achievements and personal expression of people. In this story we can see that people are all equal and that no one can be stronger, more beautiful or even smarter than others because this inflics jealousy in others. This takes away people's freedom to be able to express themselves. Therefore, answer A is correct.
Part B
Answer: The story begins by stating that “everyone was finally equal” and describes how hard the government works to create a totally equal society.
The beginning of the story states that people are finally equal, and it even mentions that people are still mad because it's not spring in April. With this the author is just mocking how people want to control everything and how people perceive things different to them as threats.
During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of African-American sharecroppers who fell into debt joined the Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North. According to Greenberg, by 1940 1.75 million African Americans had moved from the South to cities in the North and West.
D. through the sound effect of footsteps around the kitchen
This would be the correct answer as the use of sound effects serves an important role in the text as it would establish the setting of the story and basically establishes a way for the audience to be a part of the story.
