Daniel Ms.Garland English 1 honors 5/15/24 Controlling. How does Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson use imagery, setting and simile to demonstrate government control and how it affects perspective? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953 during Global Tension, is a book where the main character is a “fireman” whose job is to burn books and the buildings they are found in. The lottery by Shirley Jackson, published in 1948, is a book where the main character Tessie Hutchinson due to the fact that she is the lottery winner although she was stoned to death by the other villagers and her own children. Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson both use imagery, setting and simile to demonstrate government control and how it affects perspective to show how government control can affect people's thoughts and how they can look/see things. In the book "dip-in" Bradbury …show more content…
Another part of the text where Bradbury compliments perspective is when montag encounters Clarisse her free thinking neighbor, throughout their conversations Bradbury identifies how seeing their society in Clarisse's eyes can open montags with different ideas, see things differently and challenge his beliefs this shows how others thoughts can shape, help others understanding or beliefs and how they see the world. In this upcoming piece it talks about how Brabury states that in the society there are mechanical hounds whose jobs are to sniff out people who are reading books and or bucking against the system of order the firemen and society, in general were sworn to keep also they were signed to attack them with a needle that holds a drug before they are burned, this dog was to help maintain that. “Montag felt a shiver run down his spine as the mechanical hound prowled silently in the darkness, its metal frame gleaming in the moonlight. He could hear the faint whirring of its gears and the soft padding of its paws on the pavement. As the hound closed in, Montag's