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.
"PLAIN" is an organization that wishes to influence governments from all around the world to change their documents so as to have them presented to people in plain language. They deem plain language as language that can easily be understood by everyone. The current state of affairs is that there are many tricky constructions and phrases which make the laws and documents unreadable by the common people.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
He says it's pointless because the prisoner will say whatever they think their capture wants to hear.
Just ask yourself, who you are presenting it to. Or who are you trying to persuade. For example: if I’m taking about the environment and how we need to save it. It can go either one or two ways. You can pitch your idea to someone who already known what your talking about and you can offer a better solution OR you can inform a new audience who isn’t knowledgeable on the subject. It just depends on what you want to write about
Answer:
it's best if you don't beat around the bush and tell everyone the truth
