The House is Burning

Adversity is a state of continued difficulty or hardship that a person may experience. Both “A Time To Kill” directed by Joel Schmaucher and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee present characters that face adversity and have different methods of dealing with the situation they face. Some submit to adversity, like Lucien Wilbanks and Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley. Others respond using societies provided systems, such as the law, like Jake Brigance and Tom Robinson do. Non-violent resistance is used by…

lives in a utopia. Those beliefs are shattered when he meets Clarisse McClellan, who tells him all her ideas about the past and present of their society, which makes Montag question everything around him. Montag and Clarisse live in a society where burning books is the law and firemen are paid to start fires and not put them out. Books are banned and anyone found hiding any is sent to a mental institution or burned along with their books and homes. Montag lives with his wife, Mildred, and…

In William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning”, Faulkner narrates the tale of young Sartoris, a young illiterate boy with a deep sense of familial ties and the ability to distinguish right from wrong at a young age. Sartoris’ (Sarty) family has a deep devotion and loyalty to defending their father, Abner from any crimes he’ll commit, but most famously for barn burning. Sarty is the youngest in his family with his father, brother, his two sisters, mother and aunt all looming over him and…

compared to violence weapons, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it” (Bradbury 56). Books are also thought to be useless writing, “Nothing you can teach or believe” and therefore firemen are expected to burn books (Bradbury 59). People in society feared books because, “They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless” (Bradbury 79). Besides book burning, society encourages people…

Eucharist is seen as memorial meal and sacrifice to the Catholic community. This memorial meal refers to the Passover that celebrate the freedom from the slavery the Israelites faced. This occurred after God communicated to Moses through the form of a burning bush to free the Israelites from Egypt’s tyranny. The pharaoh, Ramesses, refused to release his slaves. Latterly, God introduced a plague, water turned into blood. Ramesses still persisted on enslavement. Ramesses and his people experienced…

Warsan Shire’s “for women who are ‘difficult’ to love” is a powerful and personal poem. Through the use of the pronoun “you”, which is very personal and direct, rather than “she”, which is less personal and more of a narration, the reader feels as if he/she is themselves in the story, experiencing and living vicariously through the woman. Shire uses powerful, descriptive diction and vivid metaphors while maintaining simple sentences to create a fiery, emotional mood. Ultimately, Shire applauds…

Emily Barnard Professor Kraskin ENC 101 5 November 2014 Burning the Dangers of Censorship in your Mind; Review of Fahrenheit 451 The Universal Pictures Fahrenheit 451 was made in 1966 by director Francois Truffaut. The lead was played by Oskar Werner who plays Guy Montag. While the film making quality compared with today’s big budget films is sub-par, the film more than makes up for the low quality with superb use of camera to capture themes and references related to the book. The acting…

Individuality Individuality. Look at the person sitting right next to you, is your style the same? Would you want to live in a world where no one pursues knowledge or thinks differently? Well, this is how the community was for Montag in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wanted to created the opposite of a good society within this book, a dystopian society. The protagonist, Montag, was a firefighter, but only because his dad and grandfathers were. Firefighters had to burn books…

Acidification, a process where the pH of ocean decreases as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) concentration increases in the water from the atmosphere. Since industrial revolution, the concentration of CO2 has dramatically increased in our atmosphere due to the burnings of fossil fuels, deforestations, and many more actions that humans take to make our lives luxurious. About 30% of CO2 from the atmosphere is absorbed by the oceans, making marine life’s survival uncertain. It has huge impact in the regions…

to heat up their homes. Then on December 5, 1952, a layer of dense fog engulfed the city and stayed for five days .Since the smoke from the coal burning in homes, plus all of London's usual factory emissions, had been prevented from escaping into the atmosphere by an inversion, the fog and smoke combined…