François Truffaut

Guy Montag is a firefighter who smolders books in a cutting edge American city. In Montag's reality, firefighters begin fires as opposed to putting them out. The general population in this general public don't read books, appreciate nature, invest energy without anyone else's input, think freely, or have important discussions. Rather, they drive quick, watch extreme measures of TV on divider estimate sets, and listen to the radio on "Seashell Radio" sets connected to their ears. All through the…

The smell of smoke enters the cave and I'm instantly woken up by it. The sound of the kookaburra rings throughout the bush land. My first thought was that Uncle Bardy was starting a fire for a smoking ceremony and I raced outside to join. I'm surprised when I see a burnt out fire and birds scavenging around looking for food. In the distance I see where the smell of smoke is coming from. I walk over to the edge of the hill and peer out over the bay where the smoke is still rising. I'm shocked at…

My thoughts on burning books is you should not do it, there is no point in it at all the book has not hurt or harmed you in any way shape or form if you think the book is a bad book do Not read the book. The book may have some wording you do not agree with but that does Not give you the right that an author has taken his time and hard work to go out and burn the book. If you think the book is that bad then don't even look at it. “The nazi’s did not burn books”(paragraph 1 of Heinrich Heine…

A Revolutionary Pyromaniac In Ray Bradbury's, Fahrenheit 451 he uses a series of powerful symbols in order to give the plot a much deeper meaning. He refines the theme of the story by using symbols such as the hearth, salamander, the sieve, the sand and the Phoenix. Ray Bradbury essentially reveals the cyclical nature of mankind and their capabilities of utopian creation versus dystopian destruction. In Fahrenheit 451, fire symbolizes destruction, knowledge and as well as self-awareness. The…

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s the year 2020, Kanye is president, and books have been wiped out. Not a single book in sight. You hide one, you’ll be found and arrested, and your books will be burned up in flames. Guy Montag, a fireman, curious about books and the past, begins to adventure into an unknown world of books. One girl, it’s all it took to make Montag question everything he’s ever known. Her name…

The novel can still be used as a warning to people in america by letting us americans know our mind is too much in the television and our technologies instead of enjoying life”stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. The novel is really about burning book and montag is a fireman so that's what he do for a living and he love his job but in our society firemen don't burn…

Tsar Nicholas II's reaction to the peaceful protest the workers staged, his inability to meet the demands of his people, and the rising prices and lowering conditions that came with World War I all led to the inevitable- a revolution. "Peasants burned the estates of their landlords, destroying everything they could get their hands on." (As It Was Lived: 4-18) This was an accurate portrayal of the behavior of the peasants after the events of the 1905 revolution, also called ‘Bloody Sunday'.…

Jean Baudrillard The Hyper-realism of Simulation In Baudrillard's essay “The Hyper-realism of Simulation (originally published in 1976), He stresses that the use of media, signs, and symbols has overloaded our culture to the point that “reality itself, as something separable from signs of it …vanished in the information-saturated, media-dominated contemporary world” (J.Baudrillard, 2006). Mass Media i.e television, photography, and advertising have shaped and our human interaction and…

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a conceited dystopian society where any possession of books is illegal? Well, in a dystopian society like Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, it is a community where firemen have to burn books for a living. People are not allowed to peruse books but only allowed to scan through training manuals for their jobs. When people who are against the government read the books, they will either get arrested and have a death penalty, or they either can…

After much contemplation, I think I would use thought-provoking to describe ‘Invisible City’. The interviews, anecdotes and footages in the documentary film gave me a trip down memory lane of old Singapore in the 1950s. However, at the same time the past was shovelled, more questions began to arise. Then, I wondered about the Singapore I know. As a product of our education system, I grew up only learning one clean and neat singular linear history of Singapore. The textbooks told me the…