1) A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and
end all way of freely thinking. A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag;
Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship. Very dry
and not loving at all. Montag is a third generation fireman. His job is to
burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them. He enjoyed his
job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met
his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse. She points out to him there is more
to life then what he is doing now. After thinking about all this he remembers
and old man he met in the park one day. He was a retired professor named Faber.
Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer. Montag started
to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber
now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out
there who would listen to all he had to say. He wondered more and more about
books and what the meaning of life actually was. His fascination with books
became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them
and memorizing them. Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting
interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to
his old ways of burning things and loving fire. Beatty realized after Montag
had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and
stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking. After Making Montag burn
down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally
cracked. He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.
After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of
town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther
and farther from the city and all he left behind. After hiding in the forest he
comes across a group of old men. They welcome Montag with open arms and let him
become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living. They were all
once professors and understand Montag. The war continues until they drop the
bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever. Hoping to
recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing
but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once
read.
2) Theme of the novel: To gain as much knowledge as you can and use it.
3) Authors tone: Kinda of dark and depressing.
4) Simile: ".... her face as
white as snow...." pg 7
Imagery: Montag doesn't even like his wife and how they don't have that special thing anymore.
Flashback: The fire of the old lady's house and how she threw out of herself.
Symbolism: The fire and the life of the flames
Irony: Their firemen started fire, and our firemen are here to put them
out.
CHARACTERIZATION:
1) Direct Ch: .."her face was white as snow.."
Stating that Clarisse had a white face.
Indirect Ch: Montag would always
smell like kerosene and have a charred black face, describing him as a
firemen.
2) I don't think the authors syntax or diction changed at all
throughout the book ?
3) Montag is a dynamic character because he changed
from a firemen who never really thought about the reasons why he had to burn
down books, to a man who really wanted to know the meaning of life and what it
had to offer.
4) After reading this book, is reading is not only pleasure but knowledge waiting to be open and interrupt.
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