Simile takes a huge role throughout Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron." During the year 2081, Harrison Bergeron, a 14 year old rebel is taken under custody for being normal. He is later forced to put weights all over his body and change all of his facial details like his nose and eyebrows. "Harrison is like a walking junk yard" (Vonnegut 349). The author uses this line to help the audience picture how life was in the course of this period; tough and strict. "Harrison tore straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper" (Vonnegut 350). Harrison was a tremendously strong young man and with that strength he was able to rip all the handicaps put onto his body. But, his strength was what also caused him the arrest in the first place.
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