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building your wings on the way down”. This inspiring quote was said by Ray Bradbury, the author of the frame short story book, The Illustrated Man. This book was written in the year of 1951, which was the time of expansion of the television and different type of technology. This science fiction book has a common occurring theme, to live your life to the very fullest so when you die you will not have any regrets. This iconic book by Ray Bradbury has the theme of live your life the fullest, you…

Written and published in 1939, John Steinbeck’s novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ captures the despair, almost frantic, nature that American society had become after the Wall Street crash of October 29th, 1929. The characters within the novel are attempting to make their way westward across the country – following in the footsteps of many American citizens who, prior to this time period, were pioneers attempting to follow the ideals of Manifest Destiny. During the ten-year-long depression that…

The government has always tried to protect itself and keep order over society for as long as anyone could remember, hiding important things from it’s citizens to make sure they stay in control. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, a character by the name of Faber states that there are three “missing things” in society. The last and most important is the right to act. The author often hints at how society in the real world censores good quality and important pieces of information to protect…

Every person has the capability to attain enlightenment, as each can descend on their own unique journey to achieve truth and understanding. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents a future society where books are forbidden, firemen burn books, and people living in society are lost in superficial desires that are fulfilled with meaningless distractions. Guy Montag, a firefighter who believes it’s a pleasure to burn, slowly transforms into a human library who sees the truth and the…

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 utilizes social commentary to express opinions on society at that time. A major issue that exhibited throughout the novel is the prohibiting of books, censorship. Society doesn’t allow books because they offend/upset the citizens, Beatty stated that if “colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping…”…

The purpose of the articles is to inform the reader about why people burn books. I don’t understand why people would burn books. Burning books is a waste of time and money. If you aren't a fan of a book you could simply just not read the book. When the germans simply focus on burning books of jews it is hating on another type of human. “...Literary bonfires was intended as both a purge and a purification of the true german spirit”(Henley). It was obvious that the germans thought burning book…

This book was written for a specific reason, to bring justice to the victims of the Great Depression. It states in the Grapes of Wrath, “Despite its critical and popular acclaim, upon its release there were very heated outcries against the novel and its author spanning the entire social and political spectrum of the United States. At times the novel literally fuelled the fires of public debate as local communities burned copies in protest”. The disapproval had began in Kern County, California,…

The Fire Master, a.k.a. John Smith, was a professional firefighter when on one tragic fire-fighting night at a chemical factory, the fire was so hardcore that it blew up the factory and changed his life forever. That was the day when John Smith became the Fire Master. He can control and manipulate fire and this superhero has the ability to make his favorite weapon which are his superheated shots of flame. Meanwhile he rides around in his flaming red ferrari that can turn into a helicopter, a…

In the Pixar movie, WALL-E, the current culture of the people is them relying on technology for everything they do. It’s a little like the world we live in nowadays, there are people who do everything with their phones and can’t do hardly anything without it. We now have it to where we can text the pizza emoji to dominos and they will deliver pizza. In the movie the people would call the robot that gets the drinks, and it would bring it to them. With the technology we have today we never see…

“ She risked her life to save his, believing she’d never see him again. But he has returned, challenging her destiny as Alpha Wolf, leaving her doubting her past and fearing her future.” The first book in the Nightshade Trilogy involves a interesting love triangle involving Calla Tor, Ren Laroche, and Shay Doran. But why was this book banned? Does banning books make people want to read them more? What things could she have changed in Nightshade to prevent the banning? Andrea Cremer did an…