Many readers have enjoyed and analyzed Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and A Graveyard for Lunatics. During my research, I came across many in-depth critical essays on Bradbury's works. Bradbury writes fictional works that have deeper meanings than what is written. A close look at Fahrenheit 451 and A Graveyard for Lunatics will show how he expresses these ideas in his settings, characters, and narrators. First, in both Fahrenheit 451 and A Graveyard for Lunatics, Bradbury writes them in settings based around his past. The city Guy Montag calls home in Fahrenheit 451 is based on Bradbury's own hometown of Los Angles, California in the future. A Graveyard for Lunatics is set in Hollywood, California during 1954. These settings allow for both plots to take place: they allow for the possible future of burning books and provide the lack of attention in the past for the murder and placement of a body in a popular area. “A church clock, up int the Hollywood hills, struck ten” (Graveyard 6). Second, Ray Bradbury conveys a deeper meaning through his characters. In Fahrenheit 451, There is a character named Captain Beatty. In the book, Beatty represents someone who knows what the firemen is doing is wrong. However, they have always been doing it, so it is either too hard to stop or they do not care enough to stop.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the narrator is an omniscient third person who follows Montag throughout the novel, relaying all of his thoughts and feelings. Through the narrator, we find that Montag represents the general public, uninformed and unquestioning, accepting what they are told is the truth and being distracted by everyday media meant to keep their minds off the important matters, such as the book burnings. The narrator in A Graveyard for Lunatics is a first person narrator through which we see he represents impetuosity and wonderment. “You think too many things,” said Montag, uneasily. (Fahrenheit
In Fahrenheit 451, the narrator is an omniscient third person who follows Montag throughout the novel, relaying all of his thoughts and feelings. Through the narrator, we find that Montag represents the general public, uninformed and unquestioning, accepting what they are told is the truth and being distracted by everyday media meant to keep their minds off the important matters, such as the book burnings. The narrator in A Graveyard for Lunatics is a first person narrator through which we see he represents impetuosity and wonderment. “You think too many things,” said Montag, uneasily. (Fahrenheit