Guy Montag

Mildred has no authentic conversations with Montag. She does not seem to care for his feelings or anything he has to say. She has more consideration towards her television show opera “family”. “She was quite obviously waiting for him to go.” “’What’s on this afternoon?’ he asked, tiredly. ‘Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning.’” In this portion of the novel, Mildred didn’t care to talk to Montag;…

lives rather than forcing them to slow down for once and take in their surroundings which allows the reader to learn of Bradbury’s personal beliefs and is emphasized when Montag and Clarisse discuss the unnoticed oddity of their lives. After several nights of apprehensive feelings on his walk home from his shift at the firehouse, Montag finally encountered the cause of his uncertainty: Clarisse McClennan, a young girl who sees the world much differently than her neighbors. While conversing about…

This is seen in the book when Beatty admits to Montag that most citizens feel accomplished if they can take apart and put back together a parlour wall. The government has kept a large amount of meaningful information away from the citizens and instead, they are filling their minds with “nonexplosive…

William Faulkner is rather well-known in the American literary sphere for his speech at the 1950 Nobel Banquet, where, after accepting his award, he begins to address an issue that he feels is plaguing young new writers of that generation: writing with the notion of the apocalypse, unyielding pessimism, and selfishness. To Faulkner, writing about human emotion, empathy, and hope are the only things worth writing about, and this is something that he feels new writers don’t include because of the…

Gender Moreover, Pollan fails to adequately address the role of women in the cooking process. Out of the first one hundred and twenty pages of his novel, Pollan designates a mere paragraph to identify that pit masters and most other professional chefs are predominantly men (Pollan 15). Rather than delving deeper and figuring out ways women interact with fire cooking, Pollan accepted the stereotype and continued with his interviews of male pitmasters. Pollan even admitted that, “certain…

In Norman Maclean’s text, Young Men and Fire, the reader is revealed an emotional and heart-wrenching tale of 13 smokejumpers that lose their lives on a seemingly ordinary day of wildfire fighting. The choice of recounting this tale in a Greek-story format shows us the academic, intellectual prowess of Maclean and his want to not only talk about the historical facts and testimony, but to meet the reader in his heart and express emotions that fill the empty factual spaces. Maclean says, “A…

handled. The world surrounding Montag and his life continuously rejects the idea of someone being different. The books being burned in the book represent the whole idea of someone thinking differently. No matter what, society keeps on wanting for things to be the same and not change at all. Each individual person prefers to be comfortable with being a copy of what others want you to be at the expense of your own happiness. Once, in the book, Clarisse actually asks Montag: “Are you happy? (Part…

In both worlds handicaps are quintessential to the lives of others, they are used to help those who cannot do something. Being handicapped can also be an advantage and a disadvantage in both of these worlds, like in “Harrison Bergeron” when the guy with the speech impediment got extra credit for trying his best, but also he has a speech impediment for the rest of his life. A major difference between the handicaps in 2081 and the MAS (Modern American Society). In the book 2081, handicaps are used…

In his works, Kafka delineates the confusions and dilemma of people in this modern world where traditional morals and norms have been overthrown whereas new laws have not yet been set up. Every one of his works is unique in their writing style and techniques yet they all together constitute a distorted irrational world in which Kafka shuts himself and dwells. Through his works, rather than communicates with his readers, Kafka intentionally avoids being understandable and exposed to his readers…

Chapter two Form the beginning in the movie and the short story we are introduced to Mike Enslin who writes books about haunted places. His books Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted are best sellers, but he internally shows some insecurity and guilt due to his hypocrisy, he believes in the existence of ghost other hand in his books he doesn’t believe in paranormal or in supernatural phenomena. Enslin hates his…