Guy Fawkes

My Personal Playlist and Transcendental Justification Icarus, Bastille, 2011 I personally love this song simply because of the Greek Mythology reference, as well as the really cool entrance; and I think that transcendentalists might like it as well. My interpretation of this song is that it is talking about how young people search for happiness by doing dangerous and risky things (i.e. Icarus got excited and flew up towards the sun), that may lead to them getting hurt (the sun melting the wax…

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” This quote by William Arthur Ward demonstrates the profound impact that adversity has on everyday individuals. Furthermore, this impact is especially visible in the texts, “Divisadero” and “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, but also in our everyday lives, such as in the devastating form of climate change. Adversity shapes an individual’s identity in one of two ways: by building character strength or by breaking it. Michael…

Book Banning is Misguided. Book banning refers to the restriction of access to a book through assertion of processes initiated by a ruling organization or individual. Targeted books mostly those in schools, libraries or book stores are challenged by individuals in any particular society due to kind of content illustrated in them. Generally, the content is normally categorized as immoral by the challengers who believe that the said content can pollute or adversely influence a young readers mind.…

things that were going on in it. In the book, the main character, Huck, runs 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…

2014 Title: Fahrenheit 451 Year of Publication: 1953 Author: Ray Bradbury Setting and Time Period: 24th century United States Primary Characters: • Guy Montag- The protagonist of the novel, his profession as a “fireman” to burn books. He becomes shaped by events in his life leading down a path to understand his own life. • Mildred Montag- The wife of Guy Montag, life is consumed by technology, Inside her façade she is unhappy and technology is her escape. • Captain Beatty- The main antagonist…

3. Throughout this story, Jimmy is becoming a changed man and he is trying to figue out the path that he wants to take in life. Jimmy stumbles upon the girl of his dreams and he wants her to become apart of his new and honest life. "[He's] got a nice store. [He's] making an honest living, and [he's] going to marry the finest girl on earth in two weeks from now. It's the only life...the straight one." When Jimmy writes this letter to Billy, he is being truthful, he really does love Annabell…

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is a story about a lifestyle in the future that has evolved from our society today, but in a different world. The main purpose in a person's life in that world was to relax, not think, and be happy, with the use of electronics. While you may think it's a book about a world in the future that represent's censorship, it can be used as a warning of what could happen to our society if we rely on technology and the media. In Fahrenheit 451, the government…

"Give people what they want" is Olivia/Madame Lulu’s moto and main point in the ninth installment of the A Series of Unfortunate events, The Carnivorous Carnival. While the Baudelaires disagree with Olivia's saying, the rest of the carnival is all about it; two passionate people that support this quote include Madame Lulu herself and Hugo. In my opinion, the Baudelaires are right, people should be able to stand up for themselves and not listen to the people because what the people want could be…

The role of books in both novels is slightly different, but both come back to a general theme that is used in both novels. In both novels, the authors use books as something that provides knowledge to a community but the government is trying to suppress this knowledge. In “The Book Thief” books play a role in 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…

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…