The following stories all contained dreams and disillusionments. In the story written by Dick Gregory, "Shame" a poor black child has a dream to be accepted in his society and is penalized for doing so. Furthermore, in the story "Harrison Bergeron" written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. depicts a story of a 14 year old boy living in a futuristic "equal" society, wanting a change in the way he lived and was killed for doing so. The …
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… trapped in a Spanish textbook with ""tener" a hairy irregular verb" running over him. Furthermore, in the story "Harrison Bergeron", the 14 year old boy was killed since he turned his dream into reality. Additionally, in the story "Shame" Dick tries to become someone in his society and is mocked for doing so. The moral of these stories is, if you try to overcome society, then society will come at full force and run ov