Fahrenheit 451 Paper
The “greater good” is an influential personality trait that people can obtain or learn from. It’s not only someone who is prominent, but someone who has a genuine impact in someone’s life. Fahrenheit 451 is an excellent example of the greater good. Ray Bradbury sprinkles intelligent themes and morals throughout the book through the characters and the environment. Guy Montag is the protagonist, and the essential “hero” in the story. Montag mostly maintains a lot of the conflict and through it all. Montag uses rhetorical techniques to convey his opinion on the greater good and how it can positively impact someone. Montag had met some pretty different characters, but not one like Clarisse. Clarisse was this little 17 year girl that changed Montag’s view on life infinitely. An example from the book is, “The girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (Bradbury 9). In the annotation Montag refers to Clarisse as a person who has taken off his mask and run away with it, a metaphor for Clarisse helping Montag realize he is not truly happy. The metaphor is shown in comparison with the mask and Montag’s negative feelings and emotions. Clarisse wanted Montag to have a better life with his job, family and friends. She wanted to open himself up …show more content…
“And across the world thought Montag, how many other cities dead? And here in our country, how many? A hundred, a thousand?” Montag uses rhetorical question to question the amount of people that died in the bombing. This shows that Montag cares for the good is the people because he wants a positive impact on the people of his society, even though it means that maybe some things will happen to them that are negative. But still, Montag has enough compassion for those that didn’t give compassion back to him, he still wants what's best for them, so he tried to influence greater
The “greater good” is an influential personality trait that people can obtain or learn from. It’s not only someone who is prominent, but someone who has a genuine impact in someone’s life. Fahrenheit 451 is an excellent example of the greater good. Ray Bradbury sprinkles intelligent themes and morals throughout the book through the characters and the environment. Guy Montag is the protagonist, and the essential “hero” in the story. Montag mostly maintains a lot of the conflict and through it all. Montag uses rhetorical techniques to convey his opinion on the greater good and how it can positively impact someone. Montag had met some pretty different characters, but not one like Clarisse. Clarisse was this little 17 year girl that changed Montag’s view on life infinitely. An example from the book is, “The girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (Bradbury 9). In the annotation Montag refers to Clarisse as a person who has taken off his mask and run away with it, a metaphor for Clarisse helping Montag realize he is not truly happy. The metaphor is shown in comparison with the mask and Montag’s negative feelings and emotions. Clarisse wanted Montag to have a better life with his job, family and friends. She wanted to open himself up …show more content…
“And across the world thought Montag, how many other cities dead? And here in our country, how many? A hundred, a thousand?” Montag uses rhetorical question to question the amount of people that died in the bombing. This shows that Montag cares for the good is the people because he wants a positive impact on the people of his society, even though it means that maybe some things will happen to them that are negative. But still, Montag has enough compassion for those that didn’t give compassion back to him, he still wants what's best for them, so he tried to influence greater