Literature

Individual Project 3

Jason C. Cutlip

AIU Online

Professor Willie Harrell

Topics In Literature

Abstract

Within this paper there will be a comparison of a character from each of the stories. It

will also give you an understanding of whether or not the characters are similar or different. It

will discuss whether or not their motives, actions, or outcomes of the stories are similar or

different within the characters perspectives.

These were two very good stories. I found it somewhat challenging to decide what I was

going to write this paper about. I chose to compare a character from each story. The characters I

will be comparing are Harrison and Sonny. Harrison and Sonny are two very different yet very

similar characters. The common thread that binds them is their longing for freedom. Harrison

was an above average young man who was taken away from his family at age 14. He had an

overwhelming amount of potential that was being suppressed by the government in an attempt to

make everyone equal. You almost forgot about him for a while as you were reading the story.

His family carried on as if it was no big deal he was taken away because his mother was

not the brightest and his father was being controlled by a device in his ear that made it

impossible for him to carry on a consistent train of thought. When Harrison is brought back into

the story he is a larger than life character. He is anything but average. He breaks out from his

prison and goes to a news room to make his statement in life.

He demands attention and recognition. He tears free from his shackles and chains and all

that keeps him down, literally ripping metal from his body. He dares people to stand with him

and be as mighty as he knows he is. Only one woman stands with him. She too has her shackles

torn from her and together they dance. Freer and more beautifully then anything anyone had

seen before. A daring escape and even more...