The Use Of Clarisse In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury uses Clarisse to describe how the common people behave in the novel. Their world is the exact same everyday, containing the same meaningless phrases that people say for no reason other than to socialize. No one can mention anything else but these phrases that they are given, because their lives are so bland that there is really nothing else to add. With this, Clarisse is hinting at how tedious the world now is due to the fact that there are no books or ideas going around for people to contemplate about. This simply states that no one can say anything else, because no one knows anything else. Clarisse then repeats the words “color” and “abstract” to synthesize the environment that they all live in. She even emphasizes on the word “all

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