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Burning Beatty Analysis

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Part Three: Burning Bright B) Critical Analysis: 1) Beatty thinks that fire is lovely and perpetual and its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. If a problem gets too burdensome, fire can remove it. This reveals Beatty’s desire to die because he knows a lot about literature, but he is responsible for the burning of books. Thus, he is full of contradictions and they have been a problem. This problem is too burdensome, but he cannot solve it so he seeks the help of fire to remove his problem. 2) Birds represent freedom and books have knowledge which prompts the people to think and thus, have the awareness of monitoring the government and defending their rights and freedom. When books are burned, it implies that the people’s freedom dissipates. The more books the firemen burn, the less freedom the people have since they become more foolish and fail to criticize the authority. 3) The beetle incident proves Faber’s statement that the people in power think they will run on forever, but they won 't and someday the system will fall apart by itself. Clarisse said that her uncle was jailed for driving slowly on a highway and the authority demanded him to follow the majority’s practice and drive at a high speed. In this incident, the beetle is driving at a high speed and yet, it is why …show more content…

The words he will specifically save for people suggest that Montag is optimistic about the future. The river in the excerpt refers to the river Montag has crossed. On one side of the river, the original society suppressed books and knowledge, and relied heavily on technology. The society is now destroyed and they will rebuild it in a different way. In the new society, the fruits will grow which means that books and knowledge will be prevalent again. Leaves will heal the nations, which means that the nature will become part of the new society and allow people to think instead of being constantly excited by

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