“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery and courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” This quote by Ray Bradbury sums up all the protagonists in this essay. Montag in Fahrenheit 451, Tris in Divergent and Matthis in Among the Enemy all showed tremendous acts of bravery and courage. In all of these dystopias the ideology is to that the government controls everything,the people have no say. In Fahrenheit 451 the society is run in a dictatorship. The ideology is that books are irrelevant. The government believes the people should live life how it is, there is no need for other sources to put any other thought in their minds. The author implies that books are relevant and should be apart of everyday life. Another example would
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While the narrative is mainly in third person, it’s limited to Montag. Readers spend a good amount of time in Montag’s brain, hearing his thoughts and understanding his many personal battles. “....Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three,....” (75). This use of repetition gives the reader a sense of imagery in the world of Montag. Although Clarisse’s character was short lived in Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury used descriptive detail in her description. “Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity” (3). This language gives an instant and unforgettable image of Clarisse. It also gets the reader thinking. Clarisse is so similar to a lot of the girls in this society, yet she was considered abnormal in Fahrenheit 451. The last example of imagery is personification. In Fahrenheit 451 the personified thing was the mechanical hound. Most of the firemen saw it as just a regular harmless dog, but Montag saw more than that. Montag saw a computerized dog that hated him and was out to get him. “It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound’s ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted towards me” (24). Lastly, the types of language and imagery helps the audience to actually visualize the characters and society. It helps with the reader’s knowledge and makes the novel more interesting which gives it that extra boost to make it more superior than other dystopian
While the narrative is mainly in third person, it’s limited to Montag. Readers spend a good amount of time in Montag’s brain, hearing his thoughts and understanding his many personal battles. “....Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham’s Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three,....” (75). This use of repetition gives the reader a sense of imagery in the world of Montag. Although Clarisse’s character was short lived in Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury used descriptive detail in her description. “Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity” (3). This language gives an instant and unforgettable image of Clarisse. It also gets the reader thinking. Clarisse is so similar to a lot of the girls in this society, yet she was considered abnormal in Fahrenheit 451. The last example of imagery is personification. In Fahrenheit 451 the personified thing was the mechanical hound. Most of the firemen saw it as just a regular harmless dog, but Montag saw more than that. Montag saw a computerized dog that hated him and was out to get him. “It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound’s ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted towards me” (24). Lastly, the types of language and imagery helps the audience to actually visualize the characters and society. It helps with the reader’s knowledge and makes the novel more interesting which gives it that extra boost to make it more superior than other dystopian