The House is Burning

Censorship inevitably breeds ignorance. This profound statement describes a society in which the government covers up information that it perceived as threatening. However, citizens become ignorant to what is truly happening. Nowhere else is this better demonstrated than by author, Ray Bradbury, in his book Fahrenheit 451. In this futuristic society, the government’s goal is to censor the knowledge of the citizens by banning books and controlling the information they are exposed to. Since…

I was heartbroken, for the first time in my life. We were walking back to our houses from our neighborhood Christmas party. It was the 3 of us; Emily, Margs, and me. We have been friends forever because we all lived close together; but in school we all were in different friend groups. In school it was as if we didn’t even know each other. We were all talking about what we wanted for Christmas. I asked Emily, “Don’t you want a dog?” She answered “Of course, but my stupid brother is allergic to…

The Outsiders Why would you run into a burning church? That is what Ponyboy Curtis and Dallas (Dally) Winston do in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders when they see the Windrixville church on fire. That is why the most heroic Greasers are Dally Winston, Ponyboy Curtis, and Darry Curtis. (Darry did not help save the church but there are other reasons he is a heroic character.) Now, you may be wondering why anyone would choose Dally he is violent, wreckless, and a "tuff" guy but Dally is…

Bradbury is set in the 24th century and depicts an imagined futuristic society in the US. The norms of this society is defined with overpopulation, fast cars that the author christens jet cars, large televisions are a common feature in most of the houses and people listen to radios attached to their ears. The TV sets serves as the main source of entertainment and also used by the government to spread propaganda. Family life as we know it today is non-existent and the TV appears to have taken the…

government outlawed the KKK the people in the Klan were still going with the group. The members were than believing in white supremacy, that's still going on in the world today. The Klan basically came back to life in the early 20th century. They began burning crosses, staging rallies, and violence towards people they felt weren't apart of the groups.The civil rights movement in the 1960s began a lot of violence to the black people. This violence included bombings of black schools, churches and…

as well. If they choose to hold on to their past it generally leads to a path of destruction, however, if a person chooses to let go of their past they tend to lead a better, more positive life. Within the three works 'A Rose For Emily ', 'Barn Burning ', and The Glass Menagerie, there are main characters dealing with the past, some choose to let it go, others hold on to it, ultimately determining their future. In Tennessee Williams ' 'A Rose…

factor in why people have such a bad perception of police officers. A police officer of 16 years on debate.org says, “Good cops do not make headlines. No one wants to read or hear about the officer who, with no protection, went into a burning house or worked on a burning car to save a person he/she didn 't know.” They only tell the bad stories about them. It only takes a hand full of officers that abuse their power, to give all cops a bad name. You also may have had an experience with a cop that…

hosted by the Gujarat Samaj of Houston. I could hear the kids, yelling and shouting in the excitement of Jamnastni. I could see the shadows of the bounce house. I was waiting for my friend in front of the bounce house. I could smell the delicious food cooking in the cafeteria. My friend interrupted my thoughts. He walked into the bounce house. I was too excited. We climbed on. Apparently we came early because there was literally almost no other kids there, it was me my friend and 3 other kids.…

consumer as shown through the fireproof houses, the hound, and the blood transfusion machine in Fahrenheit 451. As exemplified in Fahrenheit 451, technology can also be harmful to people. In the novel, Mildred is addicted to television which she watches on the parlor walls in the living room. Mildred considers the people in the television shows to be her family and even puts them before her real family. When Montag was pretending to be sick to avoid burning books, Montag was asking his wife to…

(Picture: white or cream? thin long candle burning, blending into pale light background. The candles in the story to be include like a kind of watermark on the pages) No one can see it, but it’s still there. (Picture: same candle, darker background) It lights the darkest darkness, (Picture: Child…