Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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In the following by Carson McCullers, “All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”(McCullers) American Literature relates to this quote by capturing American’s loneliness, wandering to find new opportunities, and facing hardships. This quote relates to the characters, Guy Montag and Clarisse, in Fahrenheit 451 because they are alone in a society that shuns reading and knowledge and preservation of history. Carson McCullers’s quote best captures the essence of American literature, in Fahrenheit 451, …show more content…

Writers have portrayed stories of our country expanding through colonization. For example, Carson McCullers’s quote, “Our writers have been great wanderers,”(McCullers) can depict stories of American colonization and growth of the United States. Carson McCuller is representing Americans as lonely in her quote. Through American literature the stories told of immigrants coming to the United States from different lands or countries who may not feel as if they are at home while in America. American literature is based on hardships and uprising events of this country. For example, stories of slavery exemplified a hardship that was an event in history that was oppressive for Africans and African Americans. Guy Montag and Clarisse McClellan correlate with Carson McCullers's …show more content…

For example, “But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all.”(McCullers), this quote embodies the spiritual aspect of the Graduate at Graduation. The philosophy Graduate at Graduation is physically growing, such as America. People helped America grow by exploring the West and colonizing territories along the way. Carson McCullers’s quote, “Our hunger for foreign places,”(McCullers) makes Americans unique. This quote is similiar to the characteristic of leadership. The leadership needed in order to explore foreign places is the philosophy of Grad at Grad. The quote by Carson McCullers pertains to the Graduate at

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