Examples Of The Mechanical Hound In Fahrenheit 451

Morgan Long Mr. Gowans English 10 H 12 May 2024 How F451 is Said The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many important scenes. Two of the most pivotal scenes are when Montag fights the Mechanical Hound after torching Beatty and the "Denham’s Dentifrice" scene on the train. Analyzing these two scenes for their rhetorical effect shows how well Bradbury can imply things while painting a picture in your mind. Although this book may seem like a simple futuristic fiction, it talks about deep topics like censorship and suppression of freedom. In the scene where Montag flights the mechanical hound, there is a tone of fear and unknowing. Up until this point, we have only been given eerie descriptions of the hound such as “The Mechanical Hound slept

To emphasize this Bradbury has Montag say “look at the mess and where's the mop, look at the mess, and what do you do?”(115). As you can see, the tension and suspense build on each other almost like a mountain range; it goes up and up, has a small peak, and then continues to climb. The rhetorical effect of this scene is that the reader almost feels a part of this big commotion. You feel the fear of the Hound as it approaches from the shadows, you worry how Montag will get out of this one as he's chased around the city etc. The mood and tone make you imagine the scene and picture it, and the suspense and tension make you feel the emotions as if you were actually there. In the Denham’s Dentifrice scene, there is a tone of annoyance and outright rage. Montag is trying to memorize parts of Ecclesiasticus but the Denham’s Dentifrice ad is too loud and blaring for him to concentrate and he expresses this rage by saying “"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet”(75). The mood of this scene is longing and

As the reader, we can feel the tension and anger of Montag’s battle against the oppressive media that he is being forced to endure. The suspense and tone work together here by building upon each other and intensifying the other. The rhetorical effect of mood, tone, tension, and suspense in this scene is how we relate. In our world it's not nearly as bad but I can guarantee we have all been mad at least once by non stop advertisements on the T.V. or the radio or something like that and that is shown to us by the use of mood and tone. The tension and suspense keep us hooked as we watch Montag battle against the media and wonder if he will snap or not. In conclusion, Bradbury masterfully uses tone, mood, suspense, and tension in these two scenes to engage the reader and have them not just see but feel the scenes. With the mechanical hound scene, Bradbury uses very descriptive, eerie words to make sense of foreboding and using suspense to make the climax even more thrilling. In the Denham’s Dentifrice scene, Bradbury uses the tone of annoyance to clearly tell us that this media is not a good thing and he uses suspense to keep us on the edge of our seats the whole