Ultimately, Popov’s humanity, for the first and maybe last time of his life, wins. After all, the defective communist government which no longer exists is to blame for the poor land management that resulted in the desertification, and he has no desire to return to Russia anyway. After shooting a man to escape the facility, Dmitriy contacts the one agency that can deal with such an unrealistic, massive, and dangerous of a scheme. Also, that agency happens to be the one that he scouted and ordered an attack on, and the one agency that is hot on his heels and out for his blood: Rainbow. In his mind, he has no choice. Hence, he schedules a meeting on “neutral” ground (the Central Park Zoo), in the hopes that Clark will not have the FBI arrest him: …show more content…
“The gamble was a huge one on his part, and Clark had to respect it for that very reason” (Clancy 657). Interestingly enough, Clark reluctantly goes to the meeting without any intention of capturing Popov, as they are both ex-intelligence officers who still honor the traditional code of such meetings.
As per the plan, Dmitriy tells everything he knows. Without much in the way of hesitation, Clark acts on the information, and a few days later Chavez and a few other Team Two members capture the man who was about to deliver the virus via an air cooling system at the Olympics in Australia. Hearing that the operation failed, the Project staff retreat to their alternate facility in Brazil. Requisitioning an AWACS (airborne warning and control systems) plane from the Air Force, Clark tracks the Horizon Corporation planes from Kansas to Brazil and ascertains the site’s location. As expected, Dmitriy, figuring he has done his job, requests immunity from arrest; Clark persuades the FBI to grant it, much to the chagrin of the agents present. While Popov’s mind is at ease, Clark is not yet out of the …show more content…
woods. At its heart, the problem is that Clark has no panacea for his current problem.
Legal solutions may turn out to be no solution at all. After talking with some friends in the FBI and CIA, they come to a consensus that Brightling and his people are retreating to Brazil to come up with a cover story that they can all rehearse and use in court: “”...so, you think they’re going down there for choir practice?”...”They need to find and learn a single story to tell the FBI when the interrogations begin”” (Clancy 698). Furthermore, with so grand an operation, there must be contingency plans in place, such as a plan to incinerate all the live virus samples or delete all related computer files quickly and efficiently, leaving no evidence of what actually went on. As for the man Chavez captured at the Olympics, well, Horizon Corporation can hardly take responsibility for the actions of one nut who happens to be an employee, can they? Even if Popov tried to provide witness testimony in court, he could not succeed in charging Brightling, as he has outstanding charges for murder (as previously mentioned, he killed a man during his escape from the Kansas facility). Unfortunately, this is because Brightling would claim that one cannot charge him and his people merely on the grounds that some roving murderer concocts an outlandish story to cover for his sins. Even he cannot mention the terrorist incidents in court, because that would mean Popov’s conviction as much as it would mean
Brightling’s since they both played a hand in it, and Popov’s immunity depends on the secrecy of his existence and work. As for a strictly military solution such as a bombing raid, that is plain illegal. One part of it is that they would technically be invading a sovereign state - Brazil - to conduct such a raid. Another part is that they would be killing these people for, in the eyes of the law, unnecessary reasons when the FBI could just arrest them when they come back to the US. Very few FBI agents know what Rainbow is and what they are currently dealing with, but those few agents all agree that whatever solution Clark finds to the problem, it cannot be illegal. Both of these constraints put Clark in a bind. But even without these external constraints, John Clark’s conscience is playing tug-of-war with itself, in much the same way that Chavez felt after the attack on the hospital. Does Clark let his professionalism come in and hopefully maybe the FBI could bring about a conviction, or does he just go in there and have the cavalry annihilate those ignorant tree-huggers the cheap, direct way? In a typical fashion, Clark reminisces of a time he tortured a drug dealer named Billy for killing a friend of Clark’s in the events of the novel Without Remorse. Aside from the killings he did at that time, John knows he has always played by the rules of engagement imposed by his country’s laws, his superiors, and his own professionalism. Now he needs to decide between whether he has a need to revert to the dark methods he used in Without Remorse to impose justice on the lawless, or whether he can leave that part of him behind once and for all. Like Chavez before him, he comes up with a creative solution to compromise between his two urges, and for the same reason: yes, the law is important, and so is professionalism, but ethics and justice are crucial even more so. Creatively, he has Rainbow deploy in the forest around the facility, sends the man they captured at the Olympics to inform Brightling that Rainbow is present and demanding surrender, and waits. Many of the Project members come out armed with German automatic weapons, actively looking for the Rainbow troopers, who they knowingly outnumber three-to-one. Despite the numerical advantage, Rainbow kills most of them, which is defensible on the grounds that they were the ones being approached and attacked (as the Project people physically left their compound and entered the jungle), and they responded accordingly. Few of the members are still alive to surrender, and after Rainbow takes their weapons and destroys their facility, they leave the few surviving Project members out in the jungle to “go harmonize with nature” with no tools or weapons at all, which is, Clark rationalizes, what they wanted from the start. At last, he can rest well knowing that he served justice to those who deserved it, did not break any clear laws (although there are a few blurry lines), and that he managed to stick to his sense of professionalism, ordering his men to shoot back only when engaged, and ordering them to stand down when the opponent surrendered. Alas, it is finally over, and he can go back to spending time with his grandson, arguing with bureaucrats over how much money Rainbow needs, and training and leading his men to be the best they can be. In their own way, Chavez, Popov, and Clark have dealt with issues that tore them apart on the inside, and they all dealt with those issues effectively and morally. John Brightling and Bill Henriksen are dead or going to die, as with the rest of the Project, and Clark and his men have restored the world to its proper order. Finally, John can go back to being the REMF that he hates being, yet the leader that he always dreamed to be, commanding a small troop of dedicated, ethical, scrupulous, and hard-working men known covertly as Rainbow. Throughout the novel, they rolled through the punches and kept their heads held high, for they knew they could only win through their hard work and diligence, “sua sponte”, of their own accord.
1. The author indicates the importance of the number 451 and the fireman's job by saying "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head" and "He tapped the numerals 451 stitched on his char-colored sleeve."
...ildred sounds like dread which would be fitting since she must be depressed as she attempted suicide in the beginning of the book.
When they deem it safe to return, they are shocked to find that their precious animals have been killed by the bombings and the zoo is torn apart. Antonina cannot keep Ryszard safe at the zoo, so she takes him to a series of secret places throughout the city that are safe and unknown to the Germans. Antonina is surprised at the number of generous people she finds that are willing to provide shelter and the only food they have to help keep her and her son alive. Jan is now more than ever determined to join and help the Underground Polish Resistance. The Underground Polish Resistance is a group whose main goal is to hide and help keep alive, not only Jews but any group of people the Germans do not see fit to live anymore. The Żabiński’s receive some unusual help from Lutz Heck, a German zookeeper who is interested in keeping the main bloodlines of Poland’s animals alive. He suggests the Żabiński’s send over any of their unique Poland animals to his zoo, to keep them safe until the end of the war. Although the Żabiński’s do not trust Heck they both agree that loaning their animals to him until the end of the war is the safest option for the animals and will allow them to keep more people safe in their
Fahrenheit 451 By: Ray Bradbury Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag. Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known as bad and shameful and if anyone had possession of a book whether it was in their house or in another person's house, then the house was to be burned.
Clarisse is a very smart and thoughtful character. She isn't stuck on materialistic things like other people in their society; she enjoys nature. Some personality traits would be confrontative/extroverted, knowledge-seeking, scatterbrained, curious, and knowledgeable. Because of these things, she is considered crazy and is an outcast: "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Isn't this a nice time of night to walk?" (Bradbury 5).
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.
“Remember when we had to actually do things back in 2015, when people barely had technology and everyday life was so difficult and different? When people read and thought and had passions, dreams, loves, and happiness?” This is what the people of the book Fahrenheit 451 were thinking, well that is if they thought at all or even remembered what life used to be like before society was changed.
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.
In Federalist 10 James Madison argued that while factions are inevitable, they might have interests adverse to the rights of other citizens. Madison’s solution was the implementation of a Democratic form of government. He felt that majority rule would not eliminate factions, but it would not allow them to be as powerful as they were. With majority rule this would force all parties affiliate and all social classes from the rich white to the poor minorities to work together and for everyone’s opinion and views to be heard.
To start, the novel Fahrenheit 451 describes the fictional futuristic world in which our main protagonist Guy Montag resides. Montag is a fireman, but not your typical fireman. In fact, firemen we see in our society are the ones, who risk their lives trying to extinguish fires; however, in the novel firemen are not such individuals, what our society think of firemen is unheard of by the citizens of this futuristic American country. Instead firemen burn books. They erase knowledge. They obliterate the books of thinkers, dreamers, and storytellers. They destroy books that often describe the deepest thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Great works such as Shakespeare and Plato, for example, are illegal and firemen work to eradicate them. In the society where Guy Montag lives, knowledge is erased and replaced with ignorance. This society also resembles our world, a world where ignorance is promoted, and should not be replacing knowledge. This novel was written by Ray Bradbury, He wrote other novels such as the Martian chronicles, the illustrated man, Dandelion wine, and something wicked this way comes, as well as hundreds of short stories, he also wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV. In this essay three arguments will be made to prove this point. First the government use firemen to get rid of books because they are afraid people will rebel, they use preventative measures like censorship to hide from the public the truth, the government promotes ignorance to make it easier for them to control their citizens. Because the government makes books illegal, they make people suppress feelings and also makes them miserable without them knowing.
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar;...” These are the thoughts of Lord Byron, a british poet, on experiencing the power of nature. A similar sentiment is seen in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as one of the main themes. The thought is expressed a little differently, but it can be seen in many situations throughout the book. Although people try to feel alive using objects or superficial feelings, nature and people are what truly bring a person the feeling of being alive.
Everyone has the ability to look at where the world is today and picture what the future might hold. That’s exactly what Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury did in their futuristic novels, though exaggerating quite a bit. In Huxley’s novel Brave New World, he depicts a society where people are decanted from bottles instead of being born from mothers. George Orwell gives us a glimpse at a world where everything is regulated, even sex, in his novel 1984. Bradbury foresaw the future in the most accurate way in his novel Fahrenheit 451; writing about a future without literature to guard the people from negative feelings, just as our college campuses in America are doing by adding trigger warnings to books with possible offensive content.
The North Korean government is known as authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship. North Korea could be considered a start of a dystopia. Dystopia is a community or society where people are unhappy and usually not treated fairly. This relates how Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 shows the readers how a lost of connections with people and think for themselves can lead to a corrupt and violent society known as a dystopia.
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).
In this article Mr. Misael Lopez former legal adviser to the Venezuelan embassy in Iraq was caught revealing a secret that the government at the time didn’t want to be revealed. This secret that Lopez reveal was in concern to a passport scheme that was being sold to people who was not Venezuelan and to people who are associated with terrorism, Lopez who is 41 years of age was introduced to this scheme when he started his job at the Venezuelan embassy in July 2013 on his first day when he was handed and envelope containing visa and passport which he was supposed to sell outside of the embassy in order to make a quick buck on the side, however, he declined to offer and we on working but in that process many other unethical and illegal opportunities