Not many people could escape the Armenian Genocide, especially on their own at age 14 after the rest of their family had been kidnapped or killed in front of their eyes. But Vahan Kenderian did in Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, a historical novel, the main character Vahan goes from being a child to a man throughout the story. Nothing in life can be taken for granted because it could be gone in a second. The main character, Vahan, had a very good life before the genocide, a top class house and a family that cared for him and loved him and was rather wealthy, but he learns how quickly that can all disappear.
There are many contrasts and similarities when being compared to how the city and countryside reacts based on the idea of book burnings. To begin with, when Montag ran off to the countryside to be away from the city he met Granger, who had told him that the people living in the countryside were book burners. However, an important detail comes up as Granger explains that the people in the countryside read and memorize the books before they even burnt them. This was new to Montag since he was always told to never read books as a rule in the city, but now Montag realized how different it was in this part of the country. In addition, the books getting burned shows a connection to the city and how the firefighters would always burn the books as
The Fire Within The book The Fire WIthin, written by Chris D’lacey is about David Rain a college student who needs a new place to live, he starts looking for a cheap place to live and finds Elizabeth and Lucy Pennykettle, they happen to be renting out a spare bedroom. He goes to the house to investigate, only to find that it is full of pottery dragons. The residents of the house claim that the dragons are alive and treat them as such, David begins to think that they are insane but he doesn’t care, he gets a cheap place to live. Elizabeth offers David a custom made dragon based off of his personality, he accepts the dragon and names it Gadzooks, he is later surprised by lucy telling him that he can speak to the dragon if he thinks about it when he needs to know something, surprised to find out that this is in fact true he begins to write a book with inspiration from Gadzooks so he can give it to Lucy as a birthday present, the book is based off of squirrels something that Lucy likes just as much as dragons, The story is titled Snigger and the Nut Beast it is about 2 squirrels one named Snigger the other named Conker as he gets more enthralled in the story he notices that what he writes down becomes true and finds out that their are real squirrels in danger and he tries to help them.
In preparation for this paper I chose to read Fire in the ashes: twenty five years among the poorest children in America by Jonathan Kozol. In this book Kozol has followed these children and their family’s lives for the past twenty five years. In his writing Kozol portrays a point of view most from his background and standing would not be capable of having. He portrays what life is like for those who have been let down by the system that was meant to protect them. Kozols writing style can be very blunt at times, not for shock value, but for the sake of portraying these children’s realities, and not sugarcoating the inequalities that they are faced with.
The book Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Bernstein is a compelling expose on the inherent evil of juvenile detention facilities. In her eye-opening account of the danger that lies within locking up this nation’s youth, Bernstein utilizes a plethora of rhetorical strategies to urge her audience to recognize and act on her claim. In writing this account on the heinousness of juvenile detention centers and why the system as a whole must be reformed, Bernstein uses personal cause and effect examples, studies and statistics, as well as concrete refutations to advocate the world for change. Bernstein starts her argument by providing readers with personal examples of the effects juvenile detention centers had on a handful of the kids she interviewed. Her first example briefly narrates how Jared, an adolescent many would
In the book fire gave individuals the power to eliminate what they thought was evil or a threat to them. On one faithful day Beatty decides to visit Montag and give Montag one of his usual speeches so Montag can stay away from books. During the speech Beatty quoted books that gave the history of firemen, he believed " A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it . Take the shot from the weapon"(58).
In 1905, he even moved the Forest Service from Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture in order to give the Gifford Pinchot more power to manage nation’s natural resources. (Linda
In “With the Fire on High” by Elizabeth Acevedo, Emoni is a strong, resilient teen mother with a passion for and excellent talent for cooking. Acevedo divides Emonis's story into three different parts: The Sour, The Savory, and The Bittersweet. Each began with a recipe accompanied by a popular idiom that Emoni had made her own based on what was going on in her life in that section of the story. The first section of the story is labeled “The Sour”, reflecting on the not-so-good things going on in the life of Emoni. The original idiom used at the beginning of this portion is “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
Fire in the Ashes is a nonfiction book that describes Jonathan Kozol’s personal experience in teaching children in one of the poorest neighborhoods of New York City, inner-city. The book discusses Kozol’s students very deeply and with details in a very powerful descriptive and story-telling style. The book shed light on how much Kozol was inspired by his students in his teaching career. The book also focuses on segregation in public schools and the conditions of low-income students and their families. Kozol expresses his belief, in the book, of providing equal education that is not inspired by race, social class, and ethnicity to public school students.
Fire in Fahrenheit 451 Four hundred and fifty one degrees fahrenheit is the temperature in which books burn. This novel, written by Ray Bradbury, is centered around a firefighter, Guy Montag, that starts fires instead of extinguishing them. Montag’s job is to burn books that are seen as a threat to society. But, as the novel depicts, Montag learns the truth of the society he lives in and what the actual threat might be. Besides the fact that it takes fire to burn objects, fire is repeatedly mentioned in the novel as a symbol that goes hand in hand with Montag’s view on the use and meaning of fire.
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin is a searing look into the hypocrisy that is the mortar of America's foundation. A nation whose words are imbued in the immortal deceleration that “All men are created equal”, but denied and stole the unalienable rights of the indigenous and forbade generation after generation, irregardless of ethnicity or creed, people's most basic rights. A nation, whose hymns and anthems speak of the “free” and “brave”, but more often than not, have soiled their hollow words with concrete discrimination and exceptionalism. It is no wonder that Baldwin prologues the second essay of his book, “Down at the Cross” with Rudyard Kipling's infamous work of imperialism and self-deluded entitlement, “The White Man's Burden”. For
"It was a pleasure to burn." In Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury opens his novel with a menacing declaration of satisfaction and enjoyment from main character, Guy Montag. While burning books as an isolated event may seem like an arbitrary act of relative indecency, this passage introduces the fact that a worldwide book ban and burning is not only a harmful deed, but a direct attack on the preservation of history. The baleful tone is conveyed through the metaphor of the hose spewing kerosene being a python; it is also revealed through his dark diction such as the use of the words "blackened," "pounded," "venomous," "blazing," and "ruins." He also utilizes a shift in imagery, which is displayed in the contrast between him seeing "things
Billy Joel’s song “We didn't start the fire” is a song easily recognizable by Americans. The song written by the self taught historian references many national and international events taking place in the mid-to-late 1900’s along with the chorus which states Americans have always had a fire burning within them throughout history. As the song lists the events that shaped the world, one leader with a self started fire is mentioned: Malcolm X. The fire he started lasted from his birth to his death and left a somewhat inspiring legacy for newer generations.
William Faulkner was a renowned American writer and Nobel Prize holder, hailing from the twentieth-century era of literature. Faulkner’s style of writing was one that favored the utilization of countless modernist devices. This break from a traditional style of writing allowed Faulkner to implement his most preferred technique, the stream of consciousness narration. This specific type of narration is a continuous flow of thoughts from the perspective of the characters in the story. A stream of consciousness is employed throughout “Barn Burning,” and the reader certainly takes notice of this narration type.
Barn Burning is a short story written by William Faulkner’s. The story is about a family’s who struggle is created by their father. What stood out to me the most in the story is sentence structure. In the first paragraph, the second sentence is very long. According to the story, “the boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of the crowed room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: ...”
