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Theme Of Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

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Although how happiness is portrayed differently between Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and short story “All Summer in a Day,” both discuss happiness and illustrate that if people find objects they love, people will be able to become happier. Happiness is different to many people and you can be happy from different things. Between the 2 texts you see how either an object makes you happy or how certain objects have reasons to make you happy. In Fahrenheit 451, one of the characters, Montag, is starting to read more books. When he reads one of the books it gives him lots of information, but he doesn’t understand it. Montag realizes he has “Everything [he] need[s] to be happy, but [he isn't] happy.... The only thing [he knew] was gone was …show more content…

The books were his hope of happiness. He was happy reading these books but they got burned. Once that happened he felt like something went missing but he was still happy and was able to find something in life that made him happy. Similarly, in the short story “All Summer In a Day,” the kids only were happy when the sun came out. This barely happened because the sun didn't really come out. The weather was bad, but it eventually stopped and “The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sight and squeak under them, resilient and alive...” (Bradbury).
During this time lots of children were upset. They eventually were able to do d happiness once the sun came out. But once the sun goes away everything god's back to normal. So they never can be truly happy because it rains so much.
These two texts are very similar in multiple ways. It shows that whenever people are down they have to find ways to make them happy. People have different ways of being happy and not everyone's the same. Throughout both stories, people are jealous of others because of what they have, but everyone finds their own way to be happy. Both characters, Montag and Margot, both were treated badly and they were unhappy but found ways to be

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