We Didn't Start the Fire

in Lord of the Flies, where fire changes from a useful way to get rescued to a destructive instrument used to brutally murder each other. As nuclear war rages, a group of English boys are shot down while flying over the Pacific Ocean and find themselves abandoned with no adults or any sign of authority. The boys are forced to create a liveable society until they can be rescued. As the boys remained on the island they began to lose hope of ever getting rescued and start to fear nonexistent…

War We were in the middle of a dogfight, Miles a first sergeant and I were stuck on the second floor of a building taking heavy fire. The rest of the platoon had been hit with a mortar and we didn’t see any survivors besides Derek. I was an American journalist from ABC News who was covering the start of the war and had little experience being a war correspondent. They called out into the empty blast hole in which Derek walked over and could only find things left from the blast. We were…

How the Great Chicago Fire started will forever be a mystery. I know what started it, it was natural causes because it's hard to believe that a person with a peg leg could run 250ft in the time that he said he ran. Also Mrs. O'Leary couldn't have milked her cow in the middle of the night with no light but a lantern. The lantern is a fire hazard because you had to light it with fire. Plus the wood that was the city was dry so it was really flammable. The city of Chicago was going through a…

word “Fire”. Since Guy Montag is a fireman that makes fires, he doesn’t put them out. Any type of book, he would burn it because the government didn’t want them to read. In the government’s eyes, reading causes people to be sad and stressed and they don’t want that. So they have these firemen that raid people's house, by others’ submission in the fire station. Fire has a lot of symbolism in this book. Since fire has to do with burning all the books by the government's command. To start it off…

In the story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, society was much different than the society we live in today.In Raybradburys’s predictionof the future nobody in all of America read books, being smart and thinking was frowned upon. The firefighters didn’t fight fires,unlike firefighters today they started the fires. The things firefighters turned to ashes was books. Books are illegal to own in bradbury’s book. If someone finds out you have books, firefighters come to your house burn your books and…

The fire!!!!! When i was getting off the bus my mom was picking me and my sister we got into my mom’s car she was on her phone. When she usually isn’t but then she showed us a picture and there was a fire 80 feet away from our house. I was shocked my heart was beating i thought was i cursed or i don’t know. My mom said ‘’it will be fine the firefighters should take care of it’’. That just made my sister cry even more for some reason that made me feel way better what my mom said. Lets…

You may think that mrs. O'Leary’s cow started the great Chicago fire. You may think it was pegleg Sullivan, but have you ever considered natural causes. Take a moment and think about it— ok that's enough thinking. There was a drought fires started nearly every day. Interested then keep reading for facts about the cause of the Chicago fire. •_• So the reason I think the Chicago fire was started by nature caused ,all the other theories have so many flaws to many. How could a man with a peg leg…

represented courage under fire. If you don't know what that means, courage under fire means to stay strong with all the negativity and racism you may have to deal with. To conclude, courage under fire means staying strong throughout tough times. This is shown in the book, The Port Chicago 50 by Joe Small, Rives Bell, and Thurgood Marshall. To start off, Joe Small shows “courage under fire” when in chapter The Policy, “This became a pattern with Joe Small. He didn’t go around…

sometimes, they are bad and change to good. Just like Montag, his colors start to change. Throughout the story Fahrenheit 451, by: Ray Bradbury, Montag’s colors change. In the beginning of the book, Montag was a very boring and unhappy man, but Montag didn’t know he was unhappy. He believed his life was fine, he was married,had a good home, and he was a Fireman, what could be better than that? Montag didn’t question the society, didn’t question his job, and did what he was told. He did not take…

About this book: ¬We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is about four friends – the Liars – that becomes destructive. During summer fifteen on her family’s island, Cadence Sinclair suffers an injury that causes her to lose her memory. Her family won’t tell her what happened in summer fifteen and for two years, Cadence doesn’t see the Liars. Summer seventeen comes along and Cadence decides she needs to figure out the truth and she dedicates her summer to doing just so. As some of Cadence’s memory returns,…