Compare And Contrast By The Waters Of Babylon And Fahrenheit 451

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a progress; working together is success,” by Henry Ford. The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and the short story By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benét, show how humankind isn’t always successful throughout their journey. Some stories, people, and objects could seem like they have nothing in common, completely different, but hidden underneath the surface are similarities and connections. People will make their own choices and carry through with them if they believe they are right. As things carry on throughout both stories we see they are connected more commonly through being compared to a phoenix, finding the truth and the travel. A Phoenix is a long-living bird that regenerates. It goes through its life and makes mistakes and choices, just like humans, at toward the final moments of its life it gets reborn in fire. The stories are similar in the same way. In Fahrenheit 451, a bomb from the siding force in their ‘war’ was dropped on the city. “The explosion rid itself of them in its

Montag (Fahrenheit 451) and John (By the Waters of Babylon) went through both a mental and physical journey. “[Montag] walked out in the river until there was no bottom and he was swept away in the dark.” (139) That quote show that Montag didn’t just forget his past and his choices he’s made, but it shows him physically leaving everything behind. His past being swept away symbolically. John on the on the contrary, John did not want to rid himself of the past but gain knowledge of it. “My heart was troubled about going east, on the God roads.” (178) John was scared for his journey because nobody else was willing to do so and nobody else knew of what was beyond their own little civilization. John went through both a physical and a mental travel when he lets for the city, to find the truth and know the history of his world that his father would not tell