The Good Guy

Determined to learn new things about the society “Why do you find burning books is fun?” Knowledgeable: Is aware of her society in ways other people her age might not know. “ Is it true that long ago firemen put out fires instead of starting them” Guy Montag: A 30 year- old firemen who always fully finished his job which gave him pride. Selfless: His daily routine is to burn books, this brings him pride and arrogance. Until he meets Clarisse, who influences him to make better…

Chris McCandless’ actions can be seen as rebellious at first, but as time goes on, it is clear that there is hostility between his parents and himself that he does not want to face or try to fix. In a dysfunctional family, there are two extremes when it comes to the outcome of the children: the rebel or the conformist. Although the older child is typically the conformist and the younger child is the rebel, the McCandless family is a little different because both children are the rebels. Krakauer…

second chance at redeeming yourself, that is the hope that propels society. A phoenix is a bird known to cyclically regenerate or give rebirth to itself. Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, lives in a future paradoxical world that is being corrupted by its own societal endeavors. In order to understand the life of Guy Montag, one must understand the true meaning of the phoenix. This could be deciphered from Grangers reference to the phoenix, Clarisse’s close connection…

Fahrenheit 451 and Hunger Games as Dystopian Fiction A dystopia is a term used to describe a universe where there is a great measure of societal control, and an intention of a perfect society are made through tight control. These controls can be corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopian societies have characteristics in which keep them apart from others. For example, a dystopian society may use propaganda to control the citizens of the society.…

People say that there is nothing like the smell and the feel of a brand new car. Lucky for me at the age of nineteen I was fortunate enough to find that out for myself. After working to save seventeen hundred dollars my mom and I drove to the Honda dealer to go get the car of my dreams. There it was, either it seemed like they knew I was coming, or everywhere I looked the car was there. A black on black coupe EX Honda Civic, power locks, power windows, sunroof, alloy wheels, and the best part…

William Faulkner is rather well-known in the American literary sphere for his speech at the 1950 Nobel Banquet, where, after accepting his award, he begins to address an issue that he feels is plaguing young new writers of that generation: writing with the notion of the apocalypse, unyielding pessimism, and selfishness. To Faulkner, writing about human emotion, empathy, and hope are the only things worth writing about, and this is something that he feels new writers don’t include because of the…

Gender Moreover, Pollan fails to adequately address the role of women in the cooking process. Out of the first one hundred and twenty pages of his novel, Pollan designates a mere paragraph to identify that pit masters and most other professional chefs are predominantly men (Pollan 15). Rather than delving deeper and figuring out ways women interact with fire cooking, Pollan accepted the stereotype and continued with his interviews of male pitmasters. Pollan even admitted that, “certain…

In Norman Maclean’s text, Young Men and Fire, the reader is revealed an emotional and heart-wrenching tale of 13 smokejumpers that lose their lives on a seemingly ordinary day of wildfire fighting. The choice of recounting this tale in a Greek-story format shows us the academic, intellectual prowess of Maclean and his want to not only talk about the historical facts and testimony, but to meet the reader in his heart and express emotions that fill the empty factual spaces. Maclean says, “A…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, there is a serious issue being handled. The world surrounding Montag and his life continuously rejects the idea of someone being different. The books being burned in the book represent the whole idea of someone thinking differently. No matter what, society keeps on wanting for things to be the same and not change at all. Each individual person prefers to be comfortable with being a copy of what others want you to be at the expense of your own happiness. Once, in the…

In his works, Kafka delineates the confusions and dilemma of people in this modern world where traditional morals and norms have been overthrown whereas new laws have not yet been set up. Every one of his works is unique in their writing style and techniques yet they all together constitute a distorted irrational world in which Kafka shuts himself and dwells. Through his works, rather than communicates with his readers, Kafka intentionally avoids being understandable and exposed to his readers…