Burning Man

I am reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I have read chapters one through three. In this story Scout and Jem live by a house that everybody fears and the house is occupied by Boo Radley. I predict that the kids will not meet Boo Radley. G Through the first chapters Scout and Jem are scared of Boo and he is locked up. Y Locked up R Radley’s don’t leave their house (page 11) R Jem and Scout have never seen Boo (page 10) R not many people come and go from the house…

Although many underlying messages are prominent throughout this novel the main overlying theme is that blind acceptance of societal norms is a catalyst for the loss of oneself .This is expressed continuously by the action taken by characters throughout the novel. At the start of Fahrenheit 451 Montag seems perfectly happy accepting his occupation of destroying literature as a fireman. This false sense of happiness begins to come unraveled as Montag meets Clarisse. Clarisse helps to establish…

for the couple this is the best movement for each other. When she answers him, he was shocked because she said she doesn’t remember that. At that same time on Mr. montage mind, one thought that “the thought of not crying at the death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made still more empty.” This makes us realize that the how much different apart from each other. For anyone who is close to each other death is sad movement and his not crying show us how much the…

away with a slave boy named Jim. The two of them grow a bond and go on many adventures together on their raft. They even gain a few others with them. They gained a 30 year old guy who is said to be the long-lost son of an English duke, and an older man who claims he id the Lost Dauphin and should be the king of France. The book is fine to be in the class rooms, in my opinion, but possibly for the more mature groups so that the themes can be discussed…

several different ways. Liesel steals a book which then helps to teach her how to read and write. This makes her very interested in reading new books. Liesel then starts to steal more books; this eventually leads her to steal a book from a pile of burning books. These books were being burned because they were deemed, by Hitler, to not represent the ideas of Nazism. The books that were burned by the government so that the community could not access this information. The citizens at this time were…

In the story “Fahrenheit 451” the main problem is that many people’s houses or libraries are being burned down and all of the books inside are being totally destroyed. The main character, Guy Montag, was a fireman and had been a fireman for ten years. This story takes place in the future where the firemen set the fires, rather than putting the fires out. The firemen are setting the houses and buildings on fire because they all think that that books are bad for everyone that reads them. One day…

walk out the door. Surprised at finding smoke outside, Paul and his mother call the fire department, and find out that “muck fires [do not] go out… [they are] burning all the time” (15). Why do these fires burn all the time? Muck fires are an important piece in this book for Paul, because it is one stable matter in Paul’s life, always burning, and never going out. Paul’s life has only been ups and downs; lies and misfortunes, and this is now one thing that will always stay the same. For the…

There are many uses of fire in our daily lives. Humanity uses fire as a source of heat, the use of lighting, for cooking, and as source of energy. In "Great Expections" Charles Dickens uses fire in the book for those specific reasons as well but he also uses uses it as a good reference of emotion. A good example of a common use of fire in "Great Expectations" is blacksmithing. Fire provides a livelihood for Joe at the forge. Another example, Joe relaxes in the comforting warmth in the evenings.…

In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, owning and reading books is illegal and if a citizen is caught, the book is then burned. Throughout the story, Ray Bradbury uses the literary device of symbolism; symbols ranging from certain aspects in the firefighter's uniforms to the actual fire itself, and the Phoenix at the end of the story. Guy Montag is first introduced in the beginning of the story as the protagonist. Firemen were common in his family; his grandfather and father were firemen…

Sam and Life in the book of My Brother Sam is Dead argue a lot , but I think it is because they are so much alike. Whenever Sam comes home from Yale he tells his family about an attack which makes his father mad. Later that day Sam told Tim that he was going to have to take their family gun the Brown Bess. Sam and his father had a argument about the Brown Bess and after the fight that was the first time Tim had seen his dad cry. Later Sam took the gun and went to the war. Tim and Life went on a…