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"Harrison Bergerom"
In the text "Harrison Bergeron" the year is 2081, nobody was better looking than anybody else. No one was stronger or faster than others. All of this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213rd amendments and the relentless vigilance of US Handicap General's agent. The single most influential moment in the text “Harrison Bergeron” was when Harrison breaks out of his imprisoning chains and monitors. He is free and so are the production crew recording him.The speaker says “The music began again and was much improved.” (Vonnegut 6) As the studio crew feel confident to show their true skill. For a moment we see how inequality isn’t always so one-sided,the story lets the reader appreciate and celebrate differences. “And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang! Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well. They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun. They leaped like deer on the moon” (Vonnegut 7). People of different intelligence, strengths or weaknesses are able to have a good time, in fact more of an enjoyable time than an all-equal world.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A 13-year-old boy is thrown out of the school he loves when his family can no longer afford the fees. He sneaks into the library and learns how to build a windmill to save his village from a famine. The text “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” has many turning points and significant moments. The first significant moment in the story is when William had to drop out of school at the end of primary school, if hes family was able to afford secondary education, hes hunger for knowledge would've been fulfilled and while he might have kept his enginuity, he would’ve never discovered the book that makes this story possible.The second, more subtle moment was when asks the definition for the word “grape”. “Gilbert, what’s the word grapes mean” (William 1). “Hmm,” he said, “never heard of it. Look it up in the dictionary.” “The English-Chichewa dictionaries were actually kept on the bottom shelf, but I never really spent much time looking down there. Instead I asked Mrs. Sikelo. So I squatted down to grab one of the dictionaries, and when I did, I noticed a book I’d never seen, pushed into the shelf and slightly concealed. What is this? I thought. Pulling it out, I saw it was an American textbook called Using Energy,” (William, 2) William looking for the dictionary in a disordered shelf is the most significant moment in this story because it made the story.

"Barrio Boy"
Barrio Boy is an autobiographical novel via way of means of Ernesto Galarza, which information his family`s flight from their small Mexican village and next struggles to evolve to lifestyles in America. The text “Barrio Boy” stands out because it wasn’t as grand or “big” but profound. Ernesto hated the english language for its inconsistencies. Ernesto’s favorite teacher, Miss. Ryan taught students in a different way. The moment that changed everything was when Miss. Ryan gives Ernesto private lessons, Like Ito and several other first graders who did not know English, “I received private lessons from Miss Ryan in the closet, a narrow hall off the classroom with a door at each end.” (Ernesto, 3). Miss Ryan’s attention to her students and a felt presence encouraged them to do better. “Her radiant, no-nonsense character made us either afraid not to love her or love her so we would not be afraid, I am not sure which. It was not only that we sensed she was with it, but also that she was with us.” (Ernesto, 3). Miss. Ryan was present and helpful while letting students preserve what made them original and unique.