Is Everyone Truly Equal In “Harrison Bergeron” In the book,”Harrison Bergeron” everyone is not truly equal. They are not all going through the same thing together. Putting a handicap on most of them will not make them equal, especially if everyone is wearing different kinds of handicaps and are suffering different levels of pain and misery. If people were born with special talents and skill, you know that everyone is not meant to be the same, and if everyone is not meant to be the same then everyone is not meant to be equal even though you give the strongest of the strongest handicaps. No matter how much you try or do, you can’t make everyone equal. In the story it states that,”Hazel saw him wince. Having no handicap herself, she had to
