Edgar Ray Killen

Ray Bradbury characterizes his novel Fahrenheit 451 with excessive violence. Bloodshed, punishment, and cruelty are intrinsic components of Bradbury’s dystopian world, yet those who live there accept it as part of daily life. Because society normalizes psychologically damaging hobbies and behavior, citizens thoughtlessly practice reckless and self-destructive actions from dangerous driving to suicide. These violent tendencies are a symptom of the widespread underlying discontent that citizens…

The Negative Effects of Technology A theme is defined as the subject of talk. In literary terms, it is the author’s point of view on life. Most themes are agreed with; others receive some criticism. Take Ray Bradbury for instance. Back then, he was thought to be insane for the thoughts he incorporated in his book, Fahrenheit 451. Now a revered classic, the book is a reflection of Bradbury’s fears regarding technology. In his time, modern technology was barely beginning. In fact, few people had…

makes a text or film a dystopia, is their use of style. This important factor allows the author to put forward their own opinions about today’s society through their commentary. In Among the Imposters, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and 2081, by Chandler Tuttle, there is a dystopian society with…

Authors have many variations to highlight the themes in their stories. In the story “A Sound of Thunder” writer Ray Bradbury talks about a guy named Eckles who travels back in time to kill a dinosaur, but things don’t end up going as planned. He shows how the slightest things can change time if directions aren’t followed thoroughly. Bradbury connects everything tactically and supports the theme by using characters, settings and the sound of thunder. The characters play a huge role in describing…

Social Injustice In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, shows how he fears the future will be. This futuristic world includes Guy Montag and his motives for going against the social standard by reading books. In the society that Bradbury imagines, books are banned and considered wrong in the sense of political correctness, and people aren’t allowed to think for themselves, always being busy with something. Guy Montag is a firefighter, who burns books. It may seem strange now, but in his…

In the early hours of August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas of the United States. Whilst moving towards land in the form of Florida on the 25th of August 2005, Katrina started of as a tropical storm then slowly turned into a category one hurricane. After passing Florida, the hurricane gradually increased to category two and then three and then, when around 300 or so miles out from New Orleans(8), it reached a category five level when winds amounted to…

Corrupt Technology In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology derives the society from reality. Imagine a society where people care more about their technology than their own families. A Mother who cares more for her television than her own son or daughter. There are kids who kill each other and play violent games due to the propaganda of technology. This society is delusional to the fast rising totalitarian government that 's right at their doorstep. This rising power is feeding the…

Wisdom is different than knowledge In the Novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in 1953, Bradbury implies that technology and war are total powerhouses of society today and how the wisdom and knowledge of new things is non existent also highly frowned upon because the government does not want it’s people to be smarter than itself. In “The Sieve and the Sand”, Bradbury is still implying that the mistakes made in the rebellion of the government that are made is very hard to let that go…

“Anthem”, written by Ayn Rand, is a story about Equality 7-2521, and all of his trials in loveless world in which even the words mine and I are forbidden. This world’s technology level has dropped to the point where they use candles instead of light bulbs. Equality 7-2521 discovers a dark tunnel and uses things he has found in it to create a basic light bulb. He wants to show it to the World Council of Scholars, but they don’t accept it. Equality runs away into the forbidden forest with…

Do you ever forget something? Imagine forgetting your whole life, That’s exactly what happened to Jean Daragane in So You Don’t Get Lost In The Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano. Like many books, So You Don’t Get Lost In The Neighbourhood the should be turned into a movie. Theres many reasons for a book to turn into a movie, three of which will be briefly discussed. The first argument is about the genre, and how this movie will have parents and teens hooked to this movie with all the mystery and…