What Does Phoenix Mean In Fahrenheit 451

Gracie Truluck
British literature and composition
Ms. Van Buskrik
Summer Reading Assignment
6/30/2016

Introduction: If you can identify some of the symbols or patterns in a work of literature, it will make the reading easier and more enjoy able. When you are able to find patterns in a long story it could help you understand it. During Fahrenheit 451 a phoenix was mentioned in comparison to the burned down city. I realized the phoenix was a symbol for Montag’s “reawakening” within himself. Without knowing the symbol, I wouldn’t have completely grasped the meaning of the book.
Chapter 1: a) a quester, b) a place to go, c) a stated reason to go there, d) challenges and trials en route, and e) a real reason to go there.
• Our quester: a young

Foster states that “a classic vampire story is simple, it consists of: an older figure representing corrupt, outworn values; a young, preferably virginal female; a stripping away of her youth, energy, virtue; a continuance of life force of the old male; the death or destruction of the young woman.” In the movie Mom’s got a Date with a Vampire, the vampire, Dimitri, takes Lynette on a date and puts a curse on her to fall in love with him. Lynette is a recently divorced mother of two children. With that curse it takes away the time she has for her children.
Chapter 4: Sonnet 1: “From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, 5
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Thomas C. Foster has said many times that ideas are copied from one piece of literature to another. He believes that there is only one big story and every other story is related to that one. In a way, all of the literature in the world is connected. I have noticed intertextuality in two pieces of work. Romeo and Juliet and the Titanic are two stories where one can find many similarities. Both Romeo and Juliet and Rose and Jack are from different classes. They are not supposed to be together but love and luck bring them together. Romeo, Juliet, Jack, and Rose all find sneaky, deceiving ways to see each other so that nobody else finds out. Unfortunately, at the end of both pieces of work, death