Fire has multiple meanings in the book of Fahrenheit 451. The first includes using fire as a dark sense of pleasure, fire then shifts into making Montag feel numb and unhappy, and later fire is changed into being something warm and inspiring. In the beginning of the book Montag is in a state of complete emptiness where he does not think about much in the world. However, fire makes Montag feel “pleasure” and he enjoyed to see things “blackened and changed”. (Bradbury 3). The world around
Bradbury writes, “get the fourth wall torn and a fourth wall-TV put in”(18). By removing the walls’ sense of natural stability, she wants technology to takeover. Bradbury uses this fictional character, Mildred, to show how technology takes over. He does this by giving Mildred no hope of solving the problems within her life. She is extremely reckless with her pills. When Montag confronts her and exclaims “[y]ou took all the pills in your bottle last night”(17), she seems unfazed. Montag uses possessive
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Main Ideas: • Quests may not always be as dramatic as a knight having to save a princess from evil, but instead may be as simple as a trip to the supermarket. • There is usually a stated reason for a quest, but the real reason never involves the stated reason. • The real reason for a quest is to always gain self-knowledge. Connection: In the movie “Shrek,” Shrek starts off as a hostile and solitary ogre who dislikes all and is disliked by