The Fault in our stars is a fiction book written by John Green that shadows the difficult life of Hazel Grace Lancaster, who suffers with thyroid cancer, and for that reason, she walks around accompanied by an oxygen tank. Hazel squanders her days at home watching TV with her parents, which is why her mom hustles Hazel to attend a cancer support group, to kindle friendships and engage a social life. Even though Hazel was reluctant to attend the support group, she goes anyway to make her parents…
illegal and burned by fireman along with fun being the focus and cure to everything. This was the horrid life of the people in California during 1954. The people in Fahrenheit 451 seem to be happy, but are unsatisfied with themselves deep inside showing that in order to be truly happy people need to be able to think on their own. Fahrenheit 451 shows the government telling the people what to think and causing people to not know how to make themselves happy because they did not have to think for…
Our littering habit: Cleanliness in our society is is not a practical habit.It is bound just in books papers and in oral practice.Its actual significance and application is missing.Just in a moment it is overlooked by any person who is exploring our moral values our culture our stander of living and our humanity.He could instantly make an opinion about us and can make and conclude hypothesis about our future.There are so many factors behind the scene…
Inside the house, Lois tells Stewie ‘Why don’t you go play in the other room?’, to which he replies ‘Why don’t you go burn in hell?’. The similar construction of the sentences is part of the humor of the scene. Nevertheless, it was regretfully removed in the adapting process: when Lois says ‘Je préférerais que tu ailles jouer dans ta chambre’, Stewie answers ‘Un jour tu paieras cette cruauté’. The translators could have seriously kept the effect by having Stewie say something along the lines of…
Last but not least, one of the most important shared themes between these two novels is individualism and collectivism. This theme appears vividly in every inch of both novels thus it indicates that although Orwell and Huxley imagined two complete different futures of their current societies, in some cases such as this, they had the same type of advanced point of view. In general, individualism and collectivism are two co-existing different ideologies that oppose one another. Individualism is a…
Douglass once said- “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 knowledge is taken away from society through censorship. Throughout the book the main character is Montag, who collects books and knowledge soon he is forced to leave and he meets a group of intellectuals whose leader is Granger who was forced to leave for having books. We are still trying to prove the propriety of Grangers actions. Although Granger was risking his life he saw fit to help Montag, who is…
The Golem by Avram Davidson is a retelling of a Jewish folklore with a twist that makes it stand out from other science fiction tales. Evident from the title of the story, the story starts with the appearance of a golem at the porch of an old couple’s home. The old couple – Mr. and Mrs. Gumbeiner – react very calmly to the situation, unlike how characters usually react in science fiction stories when they encounter a monster-like or alien-like being. Their indifference towards the golem and the…
In “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, the parents, George and Lydia, are to criticize for their own annihilation. The Veldt is a story about how virtual reality had a deficient influence on a family. This family moved into a house with an excessive load of technology. Everyday the children, Wendy and Peter, would go to the nursery and wreckage around with the virtual reality. They spent hours and sometimes even days in there. After a while they got incredibly addicted to the VR and never interacted…
Four hundred and fifty-one degrees is the temperature at which paper catches fire and burns. Written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 must have to do with burning books, given the title. Guy Montag, the main character, is one of the book burners, also known as a “fireman” in their society. Their job is to start fires instead of stopping them. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses Montag’s transformation from a fireman to a revolutionary to illustrate how knowledge and self-reflection can change…
The moment flames and kerosene engulfed Captain Beatty was the moment a man’s death ended all literary censorship in a society. Symbolically, Beatty was the last book burnt — he was the end. Ray Bradbury’s futuristic Fahrenheit 451 portrays a hedonistic society where time was consumed by breakneck driving and interactive television walls. Books, at its very core, were illegal and banned by the government. Beatty, the captain of the fire department, represented everything firefighter Guy Montag…