The character I chose the represent is Guy Montag, the main character of Fahrenheit 451. He is a “firefighter”, which means he burns the books that are outlawed by the government. He is represented by the small lego firefighter figurine in the middle of the book. I had to scratch off the face of the original figurine because he looked very happy, and there were very seldom times Montag was happy during Fahrenheit 451. I chose to surround him with a burning book to because of his career as a firefighter who burns books. It also symbolizes his obsession with book, which is why he is directly in the center of the book and cannot see out of it. I decided to make flames out of the pages of the book because if I had made them out of paper and stuck
I chose the character Uncle Willie from the book Maya Angelou. The reason why I chose this character was that he was one of those people that are really nice but always changed in order to fit in. In the book he was the uncle of Maya Angelou, when he was a child he became crippled. He had a stutter in his voice and he always leaned forward. When he sat his back made a, “Z” shape.
Are you really happy? Or are you sad about something? Sad about life or money, or your job? Any of these things you can be sad of. Most likely you feel discontentment a few times a day and you still call yourself happy. These are the questions that Guy Montag asks himself in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this book people are thinking they are happy with their lives. This is only because life is going so fast that they think they are but really there is things to be sad about. Montag has finally met Clarisse, the one person in his society that stops to smell the roses still. She is the one that gets him thinking about how his life really is sad and he was just moving too fast to see it. He realizes that he is sad about pretty much everything in his life and that the government tries to trick the people by listening to the parlor and the seashells. This is just to distract people from actual emotions. People are always in a hurry. They have 200 foot billboards for people driving because they are driving so fast that they need more time to see the advertisement. Now I am going to show you who are happy and not happy in the book and how our society today is also unhappy.
You take advantage of your life every day. Have you ever wondered why? You never really think about how much independence you have and how some of us treat books like they’re useless. What you don’t realize is that both of those things are the reason that we live in such a free society. If we didn’t have books and independence, we would treat death and many other important things as if it were no big deal. That is the whole point of Ray Bradbury writing this book.
Few people in the world choose to stand out instead of trying to be like everyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, most people are the same because no one ever thinks about anything and their world moves so fast. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the author uses characterization to show the individuality and sameness of the characters.
Fire is used to symbolizes horror and death. One example takes place when they are on the train going to the concentration camp. A lady named Madame Schachter was separated from her family and was losing her mind. The fear and dehydration caused her to become delirious and hallucinate a fire. She screamed many time, this is shown when Wiesel states, “She continued to scream and sob fitfully. Jews, listen to me…I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames” (302). These screams were also foreshadowing the crematoria and the flames that were burning human bodies.
The imagery of fire continues in the story; the building of their fires, how the man molds the fires, and how they stoke the fire. When the boy gets sick the father is referred to many times of how he builds and rekindles the fire. This actual fire is a symbol for the fire that the man and the boy discuss carrying within in them. The man fights to save his son and the fire within the boy
The protagonist is Guy Montag, who is a middle aged fireman that burns books for a living. Montag’s description is given on page 33 that says “Had he ever seen a fireman that didn’t have black hair, black brows, a fiery face, and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look? These men we are all mirror images of himself”. All the fireman looked like each other including Guy Montag. He also had the smell kerosene, which they used to burn the books.
1. When the fire goes out it symbolizes the loss of all remaining civility and the beginning of absolute savagery. The fire was the boys' only link to the past, as it was the one true technology they had. Fire symbolizes man's domination and manipulation of nature. As the fire goes out the boys are no longer people, but animals. It is also important to note that the fire was voluntarily allowed to die.
Fahrenheit 451’s Relevance to Today Fahrenheit 451’s relevance to today can be very detailed and prophetic when we take a deep look into our American society. Although we are not living in a communist setting with extreme war waging on, we have gained technologies similar to the ones Bradbury spoke of in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that holds an absence of the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees the future of America as a dystopia, yet we still hold problematic issues without the title of disaster, as it is well hidden under our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is much like our world today, which includes television, the loss of free speech, and the loss of the education and use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury saw that people would soon be controlled by the television and saw it as the creators chance to “replace lived experience” (Patai 2).
This quote suggests that the fire has a mind of its own and is thinking about how to exactly burn the house. Personification is when a human characteristic or attribute is given to something that is not human or an inanimate object. The fire in this story is not human, and can not think for itself, though the author gives it the trait of being clever. This personification of the fire means that that the fire was hard to beat. As it took different paths around the house, allowing it to become harder to
In the book, Fahrenheit 451,written by Ray Bradbury, he had put in literary devices to help readers understand what is going on throughout the context of the story. The literary devices used in the book were imagery and personification. These literary devices will help shows how technology ruins personal relationships.
Humanity has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Perhaps the greatest goal in life is to achieve happiness, which is best defined by the positive and pleasant feelings associated with a mental state being well. There is even a religion, Buddhism, dedicated to achieving true happiness through Nirvana. One of the principles of Buddhism is to assist others. This is due to the fact that helping others yields a sense of accomplishment, raises one’s self-esteem and helps build stable communities, which helps one achieve the path of Nirvana, and is the only path to happiness. Consequently, our achievements must indeed benefit others in order for us to become truly happy.
The character I chose from my book is carter from The Red Pyramid. I chose him because he’s pretty much the main character of the story and he’s the only character I find interesting. Carter stands out from everyone else because he’s creative, adventurous, and couregeous.
... he is not afraid of killing and hunt than help the kids survive and not be scared. Last, there is his devotion. on page 88 it shows that even though he was naked he ran and scraps himself to go set the fire again. Even while he is dripping with blood, the only thing on his mind is rekindling the fire to send a signal that they are trapped on the Island.
Lemony Snicket is the main character of this book. It is kind of like an autobiography but its not all true facts. The other major characters are the volunteers of V.F.D.. There are many minor characters that were in the books. Each chapter had their own minor characters. The antagonist were everybody that was trying to figure out where V.F.D. was.