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Examples Of Narrative Structure Of Fahrenheit 451

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The novel “Fahrenheit 451” demonstrates a perfect example of narrative structure. As a novel set to be a type of futuristic read, without actually saying a date in the novel, Ray Bradbury does an outstanding job of following the narrative structure in which we’ve learned. Form the get go Mr. Bradbury did an amazing job with detail and description in this piece. First and foremost, he started off the book by giving small examples, and mentioning experiences that he was having to put us in the mode that this book was not of this time. Some examples of this include, when Clarissa stated that she heard firefighters actually used to fight fire, which is what firefighters in our time do. Which leads you to believe that this book is in the future. The individuals in this novel also had a very low salary, which could be confused with believing this story is actually written about the past, like 1900 time frame. Now days a salary of 12000 a year is unheard of, but to Guy it seemed acceptable at first. Also, the fact that they had mechanical hounds, and everything was controlled by technology, this puts you in the futuristic mindset as we are advancing fast in …show more content…

It was almost like a rebirth of Montag after he killed Beatty, I believe he felt he was standing up for what was right, and he was. I believe Bradbury did well in this, as Montag went on his journey out of the city into the country, on the run that is. He began to think about everything, he had come to terms with everything that he had once believed, and he had decided he had to find a way to save the books, they were too beautiful not to. Once Montag had escaped from the hound, he headed out into the country where he met fellow book enthusiast, the helicopters had dropped bombs on the city he once called home, and he made a decision. This decision was only fitting for this

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