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Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451

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The author uses multiple different symbols in Fahrenheit 451, which helps the readers picture what the author means without the author having to say it. The text uses symbols such as a phoenix, salamander, hearth, mirrors, electric eyed snake, colors to represent Montag's feelings about things such as people as he progresses in the story and evolves. When he met Clarisse in the beginning book when walking to home after work he describes her appearance as “ her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity” which is poetic because milk symbolizes fluid of eternal life and white symbolizes purity and some may argue innocents and curiosity of a child (3). This encounter sparked

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