Imagery In Fahrenheit 451

After all the knowledge people get from books, it Is crazy to think that reading books would be a crime. In Fahrenheit 451, it is against the law to read books or even have books, but just like today people break the laws. Firemen would get called telling the location of someone who has books and they would have to go to that house and search and burn all the books. In this novel, Ray Bradbury uses imagery to show the difference on how people act in their society. One girl, Clarisse, is different from the society and does not act like them. Clarisse sees more than others, “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning “(Bradbury 7). When she says that, it instantly proves to me that she slows everything down and pays attention to the

Suicide is so common because everybody is so distracted, they are not happy with themselves. They really do not take this matter serious “‘we get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built’ ” (Bradbury 13). This meaning they have this so commonly, they treat this like any other sickness a child would get. Seashells are a huge thing in their society “ There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time”(Bradbury 10). Everyone used seashells mainly for distraction and background noise. Mildred looks and acts like all the other woman and does strange things. In this novel Bradbury showed many different ways people acted but it all revolved on how they see books. If people are like Clarisse and Montag they are more open minded, and see more than just one thing in something. If people considered themselves more like Mildred, they like to follow the crowd and get distracted easily. They get so caught up in trying to act like everyone else they are not happy with themselves and end up commenting