Burning the Blind: Silent Screams
In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) many different literary elements were used in his writing to express his overall message for the book. Bradbury illustrates a futuristic community in which everybody is told what to do. Firefighters, which include Montag, are forced to burn every book in sight by the government. Montag had a very unusual encounter with a young girl who opened his eyes to the world in front of him. Rebelling against the government, Montag begins to look into books and understands the world they are living in more. I personally feel that the theme of this novel was “no one is blinder than those who will not see”. The author creates this theme by his usage of setting, conflict, …show more content…
Before everybody seemed as if they believed everything was fine. However as violence and terror started occurring the true characters. Even the fellow firefighters have different opinions on the government's decisions. The head chief of the fire station even agrees that with them burning books is wrong. However for some reason he does not want to change. at the end of the book we find out that the scholars, who understand the importance of the books they are burning. Not necessarily the information of the books but the ideas the books may hold. It even gets to the point where Montag ends up killing one of his associates because he realizes how much of a threat he is to him as he opens up to the world around him. While their world was silently “burning”, conflict uprose everywhere. As Montag was reading the poetry, The Sea of Faith, a scene occurred in which three women sobbed uncontrollably. Mrs. Bowels stated “I’ve always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness: all that mush.” (97) Mrs. Bowels truly believes that poetry and the thoughts it possesses is “much”, the feelings that those thoughts bring to one's mind is
In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) many different literary elements were used in his writing to express his overall message for the book. Bradbury illustrates a futuristic community in which everybody is told what to do. Firefighters, which include Montag, are forced to burn every book in sight by the government. Montag had a very unusual encounter with a young girl who opened his eyes to the world in front of him. Rebelling against the government, Montag begins to look into books and understands the world they are living in more. I personally feel that the theme of this novel was “no one is blinder than those who will not see”. The author creates this theme by his usage of setting, conflict, …show more content…
Before everybody seemed as if they believed everything was fine. However as violence and terror started occurring the true characters. Even the fellow firefighters have different opinions on the government's decisions. The head chief of the fire station even agrees that with them burning books is wrong. However for some reason he does not want to change. at the end of the book we find out that the scholars, who understand the importance of the books they are burning. Not necessarily the information of the books but the ideas the books may hold. It even gets to the point where Montag ends up killing one of his associates because he realizes how much of a threat he is to him as he opens up to the world around him. While their world was silently “burning”, conflict uprose everywhere. As Montag was reading the poetry, The Sea of Faith, a scene occurred in which three women sobbed uncontrollably. Mrs. Bowels stated “I’ve always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness: all that mush.” (97) Mrs. Bowels truly believes that poetry and the thoughts it possesses is “much”, the feelings that those thoughts bring to one's mind is