Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Literary Anlaysis Farhenheit 451 #1

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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