What You Should Know About Harrison Bergeron and the Lotteries Review

What You Should Know About Harrison Bergeron and the Lotteries ReviewThis short essay about Harrison Bergeron and the Lotteries review discusses two major themes within the general theme of Bergeron's scholarship: class and race. A few reviews have dismissed his work as biased against African Americans, and that in itself is a little bit unfair. His scholarship is, by and large, consistently civil-rights based and on race and class matters he has been remarkably consistent. His work is also very much concerned with literature and reading the essays in this volume helps the reader to see why Bergeron is so effective in his readings of literature.I think it's important to take some time to appreciate Bergeron's scholarship in these essays because there are several serious critiques of scholarship and there are a number of points that the book actually makes. A number of reviewers think that Bergeron and the review are clearly not true to Bergeron's overall works, but when you read the essays in these volumes you find that his critical approach is as much an outgrowth of his literary studies as it is an outgrowth of his black studies. Many of the books that he wrote dealing with literature were written after he had graduated from college, and many of his essays deal with literature at the level of detail that most readers want to explore, but sometimes even these levels are not enough.I find it interesting that all of Bergeron's essays in these volumes deal with characters from the literature. The main characters of the books are based on characters that Bergeron looked at from the stories that his favorite authors had told him. While it would be interesting to compare some of these characters to specific figures in history, the essays in these volumes mostly deal with the main characters. Since so many of the characters in these stories are based on historical figures, one wonders if Bergeron himself had ever read any of these history books or if he had simply se en them on television.I really enjoyed the essays in these volumes because they deal with Bergeron's own writing style and then they create some very fascinating contrasts between Bergeron's style and other writers, particularly the more lyrical writers. Bergeron is very often very careful about making sure that he is writing from the point of view of a person who knows what he is talking about. He is very careful to make sure that the language that he uses is right, and is not unnecessarily intellectual or expensive.In some cases, these essays in this volume mirror the thoughts that Bergeron developed while writing the novels of another writer, William Dean Howells. This is not surprising since the reviews of these books are so different than the actual contents of the books.Bergeron is extremely smart, and I am glad that he was able to come up with some literary analysis in addition to his personal scholarship. His scholarship and his literary insight are excellent, and I wish tha t more writers were as good as he is.This review of Harrison Bergeron and the Lotteries review deals with themes within the book. If you want to read more of the essays in this volume, you can find them on my website at harrisonbergeron.com. There are quite a few essays in the collection that are just as important, if not more important, than the bulk of the book.