In Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, both characters, Montag and Harrison contravene the antagonist. Both characters interactions end up turning into a negative situation. In the novel, Montag and the other firemen received a call to go burn a house down, as they are in the process of burning, Montag steals a book and places it in his suit and takes it home. That was the first step towards his rebellion. In the book, on pages 110-113, the author tells us that Montag rebels against Fire Captain Beatty by having books, reading them, and working with Faber, who is a wise man that read books in the past, now hiding from society. Beatty then making him burn his own house down, threatening to pay a visit to Faber. In the short story, Harrison Bergeron escapes from jail, becoming a ‘threat’ to society. When he escapes the government are on high alert, this makes the HC-G feel the need to rid society of him because he is
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Vonnegut uses the word equal, in the short story the government makes the people “equal.” They control the intelligent characters by their thoughts. The firemen control the people in the book by not allowing them to read books, minimizing and dulling their thoughts and how they think. The authors take a different approach in their words choices. Bradbury uses many symbolisms, animal similes, and dramatic words. He compares the fire that Montag sees with birds, how the birds’ wings are on fire. Bradbury talks about the starry nights and how they make Montag feel, he says on page 137, “The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors,” it has a dramatic feeling. Vonnegut has a sarcastic word choice, using “all right,” and “she was perfectly average.” Both of the governments in the stories wanted a utopian society, but the authors made it into a dystopian society, which can be seen in word choice, by the negative words they
Vonnegut uses the word equal, in the short story the government makes the people “equal.” They control the intelligent characters by their thoughts. The firemen control the people in the book by not allowing them to read books, minimizing and dulling their thoughts and how they think. The authors take a different approach in their words choices. Bradbury uses many symbolisms, animal similes, and dramatic words. He compares the fire that Montag sees with birds, how the birds’ wings are on fire. Bradbury talks about the starry nights and how they make Montag feel, he says on page 137, “The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors,” it has a dramatic feeling. Vonnegut has a sarcastic word choice, using “all right,” and “she was perfectly average.” Both of the governments in the stories wanted a utopian society, but the authors made it into a dystopian society, which can be seen in word choice, by the negative words they