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Similes In Fahrenheit 451

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Carlos Mejia Mrs. Bowen English 10B 29 June 2016 Style Analysis Essay The writing style of fahrenheit 451 is vivid and imaginative. Ray Bradbury uses many similes and metaphors to express how the characters feel or see things. For example, “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world”. Ray describes the house shooting kerosene upon the burning house. Throughout the book you could find many great examples. Fahrenheit 451s the style of writing is easy to understand and interesting to read. Ray also uses sound and rhythm to make the novel more interesting. When Guy Montag is trying to remember a verse from
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Now the third and final example of allusion is during the first time Montag met Faber at Faber’s house. Montag went over to Faber’s house in a feeling of hysteria. He was in rush because he was on his way to turn the book in he stole from the woman’s house. Montag was trying to memorize the entire Bible before he had to give it to Beatty for it to be burned. Faber is there to talk to Montag and calm him down.

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Figurative language in Fahrenheit 451 is used to support the theme of rebellion in a number of ways. One example is the use of metaphor to describe the act of reading and the possession of books. The books are described as "mirrors" that reflect the "truth" of the world, and the act of reading them is described as "opening the door to other worlds. " This metaphor emphasizes the idea that books have the power to open people's minds and help them see the world in a new light.

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happy and free Clarisse, and during one of their conversation, he, in an almost threatening way, says, “"Well, doesn't this mean anything to you?" while tapping the numerals 451 stitched on his char-coloured sleeve (Bradbury, page 4). As soon as he mentions the numbers and shows them to Clarisse, she becomes extremely uncomfortable and changes the subject of the conversation like those numbers are alive and deadly. In fact, they are.

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By studying the principles of Montag in Fahrenheit 451 we learn that principals can change as quickly as you start to see clearly. In part one of Fahrenheit 451 Montag’s principle have been fogged up by the way his society is. He had no doubt that he was doing the justifiable thing when he says “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things blackened and changed.” (4).

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People want technology to evolve. They say that technology will help us in many different ways, one of them being that it will be able to fight the global warming that we humans caused. Now, how will technology fight something that was the effect of technology itself? Ray Bradbury expressed how he was afraid of how fast technology was developing and warned us in many of his books. One of those books is Fahrenheit 451, a science fiction novel, that is about how technology was able to blind humans into becoming obsessed with it.

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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 explores what is considered happiness in a futuristic society where the citizens live censored and superficial lives, favoring mindless entertainment and ignorant bliss over knowledge, freedom, and individuality. While some characters initially appear to be satisfied, the majority show evidence that they are not genuinely content and struggle to live truly happy lives due to their society. Shown through varied figurative language and symbolism, Bradbury explores different characters and their contrasting pursuits of happiness, conveying a message of how the illusion of happiness of materialism and entertainment fails against the true happiness of knowledge, freedom, and individuality. Beatty and Mildred both represent false happiness from sustainability and materialism, choosing the bliss of ignorance over the pursuit of knowledge. They praise the way society is, both insisting to Montag that they are happy and attempting to get him to conform in the same way they have.

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