Fahrenheit 451 Letter Home Analysis

A day has not passed in these wretched trenches where I hadn’t remembered my sweetest wife and two sons. How is everyone, Mildred? I hope you and the boys are healthy and eating well. This total war must be taking its toll on our home as well. Have you been making ammunition in the factories yet, Mildred? In accordance with the news arriving from the village, almost all women have begun working in factories and are now producing war-related goods to support us soldiers. Many of us had experienced consternation when hearing the news of women and children participating in laborious tasks such as factory and farm work. It is of my greatest hope that this letter may reach you as I may not be able to write again. Enlistment was not something I had chosen to do willingly. Posters, propaganda and such had been one of the factors to my decision. The memories of white

I did not tell you this before, but your mother-in-law had sent me a dozen white feather with a chit, explaining her disappointment in me as a British man when she had heard that I had not yet enlisted. Moreover, seeing the posters of children crying at the hands of Alleymen had only poured more fuel into my burning hatred for our enemy. I had enlisted to protect my country; to make sure that my family had a bright future, free of restriction and Alleymen. When I had first arrived in Europe, I was filled to the brim with confidence in our army’s ability to tear down any Alleyman that had come in sight. Thoughts of victory flooded my conscience when taking my first steps into the land. Excitement had also built