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What Does Phoenix Mean In Fahrenheit 451

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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 …show more content…

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, …show more content…

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

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There are many stylistic techniques, imagery, and syntax that Bradbury includes throughout Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury uses unusual syntax in the story to represent Montag's thoughts for example, “One drop of rain. Clarisse. Another drop. Mildred.

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In a future totalitarian society, all books have been outlawed by the government, fearing an independent-thinking public. Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. Guy Montag is a senior firefighter who is much respected by his superiors and is in line for a promotion. He does not question what he does or why he does it until he meets Clarisse.

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Ray Bradbury, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is one of the most notable authors of the 20th century. Although he wrote over 30 novels and countless of other writings, his novel, Fahrenheit 451, is his claim to fame. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a faux utopia without books. His novel is a critical thinking piece that criticizing censorship. Ray Bradbury’s cultural significance stems from his audacious nerve to simply release his novel.

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When I first began reading Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, I thought that it would be the same story as other dystopian pieces of literature; however, after further analyzing the novel I found that Bradbury used many allusions from famous pieces of literature. These allusions show foreshadowing, irony, and the main character, Guy Montag’s thoughts about the totalitarian government in Fahrenheit 451. Throughout Fahrenheit 451 several allusions are made to pieces of literature or to historical figures.

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“Nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses” - Juvenal Smoke rose from citizens’ homes and workplaces, wisps of darkness floating higher and higher in the sky like the souls of the dead, signals to spread the destruction that had occurred only a few days ago. Bloodied bodies, dead and alive, lay there too. In their inaction - the anticipation that followed shock - they seemed to be spectators, stunned after a cacophony of destruction, played by an orchestra controlled by some far away conductor. Yet they themselves seemed to play music, mindless buzzing as their not-so-empty heads attempted to filter their surroundings and figure out what had happened to

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“Fahrenheit 451” is a book that Ray Bradbury wrote in 1951, set in a dystopian US sometime during the 21. century. The book talks about Guy Montag, a fireman starting to second guess the governmental ideologies and societal roles. The narrative is set to explore the themes of censorship. The book includes a lot of fire-related motifs because one of the key elements is the widespread and normalized book burning. One of the main symbols is a phoenix, which is present on the firemen’s uniforms.

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”(Bradbury pg.7) The symbols connects to Montag because burning books he loves to burn books with pleasure and taking away people 's knowledge. He destroys books because it is what he does as a fireman. In Fahrenheit 451 the government does not want people to have

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This irony is further emphasised as Montag is described to calmly walk on the streets. The use of literary and stylistic devices throughout the first two pages of Fahrenheit 451 is effective as it helps the readers to understand the situation under which the protagonist of the story lives in. It also helps us comprehend how the society in the novel think about what is right and wrong. Therefore, we could say that the development of the protagonist and plot in the novel is effective, as it helps us understand the positive and negative side to Montag’s

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