Oskar Werner

At this point, I have encountered all of the possible characters that one can encounter in this novel. While I have met all of them, I cannot say I remember them all. All weren't interesting to me; either due to the lack of time the narrator and the character spend with them, or that they were introduced at a time in the novel where I was much more preoccupied by the difficulties encountered by the protagonist and whether or not he would survive. The protagonist's name is Guy Montag. He's…

Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in the 24th century. At those days, being a fireman requires burning books and the houses of the owners' of those books. At the beginning, Montag meets with a 17-year-old girl, Clarisse McClennan who is his new neighbor. As the girl is beautiful and young, Montag begins to hate his wife and likes this girl. His wife, Millie is an addict of television. She even sees the life like the television programs and one day it's said on TV that an atomic war will…

“It was a pleasure to burn.” (3) Guy Montag lives in a society where firemen burn books, ‘family’ are projections on a wall sized TV, and people are considered crazy if they have opinions other then the norm. This dystopian life is controlled by the ignorance of the people and the censorship from the government. Owning books and reading are against the law and the people are drugged into compliance through sleeping pills. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury portrays the idea that…

Madison Carver Project 2 Eng. 1102 Tuesday 11:00 13 September 2015 Literary Analysis of “To Build a Fire” In “To Build a Fire,” Jack London masterfully uses the elements of setting, symbolism, and irony to reveal his perspective on the theme of survival. London uses fire in the story to symbolize life and death while interchangeably using the fire to show the contrast between the man and the wolf dog. Throughout the story, the man realizes how prudent the fire is to his survival. When the snow…

Introduction Hook: Fire destroys, but it also ignites. Fire makes a statement, and cannot be ignored. One use of fire, is the burning of books. Audience Adapter: We all read books, and it is important to know what people have tried to destroy, and why. Topic: Book burnings through history are important to understand and be informed about. Definition- According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials.…

The novelist illustrates that reality cannot be escaped from nor denied because it is the definite part of life and human existence that cannot be changed. Several writers have illustrated the harsh and inhumane nature that reality has to offer to the world. Authors such as Jack London, Edith Wharton, and Elizabeth Bishop have expressed this topic through their works of literature, demonstrating what reality has to offer. Jack London conveys naturalism and realism to illustrate that nature does…

In this novel, Clarisse McClennan played a significant role in the story and had a positive influence on Montag. Although there are many characters that influence Guy Montag, the friendship with Clarisse mcClellan impacts him the most. She causes him to open his eyes to the world and makes him begin to pay more attention to others and their emotions. She helps him realize how wrong his job is as her being the total opposite of society. One of Clarisse’s major roles in the novel is to get Montag…

The American author, Ray Bradbury, addresses this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451. Through Montage's self discovery the symbolism of the fire shifts from a destructive force to a nourishing flame. Bradbury first portrays fire as a powerful and destructive force, starting the book with this image Montag burning books. Montag found pleasure in burning them, (it was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (Bradbury 1). While this totalitarian society…

In Fahrenheit: 451, Montag’s interactions with outside forces contributed to his growth and the theme that all lives have value and becoming desensitized to them is dangerous. The first force the author, Ray Bradbury, used in the story was a woman burning with her house because she hid books. Montag was one of the firemen who was sent to take the woman away and burn her house and her possessions; however, he and his co-workers did not accomplish their goal due to the woman taking her own life.…

A man who'd always had charcoal fingers seems to have washed his hands. After 20 years of burning books, Guy Montag met a young girl who led his hands to the water. Clarisse McClellan was "seventeen and crazy," and somehow, she entered his mind and showed him that he was unhappy. Earlier in his life, he'd met an old, cowardly philosopher by the name of Fabor. Fabor also helped push through the thick skull that the society had built up over his brain. Why would these people try to convince…