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Tone In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury's tone in Fahrenheit 451 is dramatic he tries his best to make it have some drama within the characters. He did a good job with doing this for example “ I don’t mean to be insulting. It’s just I love to watch people too much I guess.” (Bradburry 6). This is an example of possible drama or even an argument within the characters. Bradbury uses a lot of different styles in his words. He has very formal sayings in here but then also a lot of slang in the book. It doesn’t really affect how the books moves along it just gives it that little extra stuff that a lot of books don’t have. A example of this is when they talk about headphones but in their world there called seashells. A good example of this is “ We know the damn silly thing we just did” (Bradbury 156). The words he uses are simple but you can still understand it. He uses both equally although he uses more connotative words and sayings more. “ Beatty’s pink, phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously” ( Bradbury 106). That’s just one of the times he did it, he does throughout the whole entire book. A good example of this is “ …. Looked at him with green-blue neon light …show more content…

He uses book to emphasize everything so he uses more of euphonious words in his text. This effect the book in a good way because it gives more of a picture in your mind of what’s going on and how to picture it. “ Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was kind of gentle hunger that no move escaped them” (Bradbury 3). This shows the type of detail Bradbury puts into his books. Another example of this detail is “.... as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that much capture and hold him intact” (Bradbury 5). This detail when Montag is finally meeting Clarisse is very well done, it gives you a strong image of there surroundings are and what she looks

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