Rebellion In Fahrenheit 451

I quite enjoyed Fahrenheit 451. A 20th-century classic. The language features employed in it result in an interesting, if not slightly difficult read which provokes deep thought from the reader. Published in 1953, it describes a future American society where books are outlawed, and it is the role of ‘firemen’ to destroy any that are found. Montag, the protagonist, is a fireman and is happy however, after a conversation with the girl next door, he discovers he is completely discontented with how he has been living out his life, burning knowledge and encouraging stupefaction.

The passengers including Dr. Chamberlain and his ex-wife Jennifer found out that they will be passing the Cassandra Crossing which was an unsafe bridge that haven’t been used since 1948. They tried to stop the train because they will be passing by that bridge but only stopped the back part and saved everyone there but the bridge collapses killing everyone in the front half. At the end scene of the movie, Dr. Stradner hoped that there will be

‘ Come on! Follow me’”(38)! Ralph’s intention was to make the fire so they could be seen, however Jack just enjoys leading the boys and making a wildfire. Jack seems to enjoy the destructiveness of the group of boys and the wild behavior. Jack challenges Ralph once more, “ Well we haven’t got any yet.

By the end of the book fire has another meaning, it shows warmth, togetherness, and safety. “ But the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who had run a long race…” (Bradbury 3.352). In this quote they have overcome the danger of censorship, they are beginning to feel secure. Bradbury repeated fire in the novel to show how some people are censored from the powers of fire.

I think this isn’t because, the ghost of the king said, “Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature” is meaning he did some bad stuff when he was alive that he is not proud of (DOC.A). Also in the Treatment of Gertrude, hamlet accidently killed Polonius thinking it was the king spying on them in front of Gertrude, before Polonius dies he says “O, I am slain!”. Right after that Hamlet told his mother, Gertrude, that the new king killed his father, she didn’t believe and told him to be quiet that she couldn’t handle it. After that happened Hamlet sees the ghost of the king again, saying that “To speak to her, hamlet” (doc.

Smith claims to have watched a man named Al Morrison kill Beth,and deeply described the murder. After the LAPD found no trace of Al Morrison they quickly figured it was Smith that commited the crime (Fuller 9). A month before Arnold came to the police station, the Los Angeles medical examiner office received a call of someone claiming to be the killer and that they had proof. Anxiously waiting officers received a package days later with some of Shorts stuff, from social security cards to an address book, but one page had been ripped out ("Criminal Investigators") The killer agreed to turn himself in but when officer went to the meeting spot he/she never showed. A couple weeks later is when Arnold Smith made an appearance.

Even though, we know what is right from wrong in our century, in the book Fahrenheit 451, where the author Ray Bradbury kind of predicts what our lives we 're going to be like. He foreshadowed what our society was going to be like. Also the technological advances that we would have. In this book towards the world starts to fall apart for the main character Montag. His fire chief makes him burn his own house down for having illegal books.

The world in this novel has fallen to shreds at the hand of technology and its unbreakable control over people. We live in a world now where we control the technology, while they live in a world that is controlled by the technology. The people are lost without their “seashells” and “families.” They don’t know how to make a genuine human connection and care for someone. That part of their human nature has been stolen by the technological advances that have taken over their minds, so much so that people will try to get one another killed just for the television entertainment.

They believe books are cause of all bad things. But this is not true. People have lost so much. Guy Montag is the only one that realizes this due to a couple of people. First, Clarisse, a teenager, shows Montag how much we have lost through her thoughts and emotions.

Montag mentioned earlier on in the novel that they only receive calls at night, “Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night?” (39) Beatty’s helmet has a Phoenix on it, a creature that periodically renews itself in flame. The goal of the Firemen’s flames are not to renew, but always to force the people to conform to the societal expectations. Our final characteristic of a dystopian society is worshipping the flames of the Firemen.

“Montag and Beatty stared, one with dry satisfaction, the other with disbelief, at the house before them, this main ring in which torches would be juggled and fire eaten.” (107). Montag is nervous and weary, but he knows that whatever happens next will determine his life. The allusion to a show represents the climax that’s about to occur, Beatty and Montag waiting for the big finale. Whatever happens next will include fire, and it will be big.

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). Montag only knew how to burn books. He knew that’s what made him happy and everyone else happy. “It’s fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes.

Terry Nichols was sentenced for help plan the bombing and get the bombs. He was also sentenced for knowing about it and not telling anyone. They both were sentenced to death by their causes. Later on after the rebel was picked up Oklahoma put together a memorial for all the people that died during the bombing. They left part of the building that was in the bombing to show how bad the walls were blew up and all the rods blown everywhere.(History.com)Along with the memorial they had a museum that shows the toys of the kids and the phones and just all of the rubble that was left.

This quote makes the the reader realize that the government controls history. This also shows the similarity between the two books. Lastly, a woman would have to have some reason to have "...reached out to them in contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing..." (Bradbury 37). This shows that the people aren 't allowed to have a free month anatomy the government.

“I don’t remember screaming. I don’t even remember breathing,” Burbano told ABC News “I just remember dragging my best friend down”” (Zambelich). This statement from an interview with one of the survivors of the Orlando Pulse shooting perfectly highlights how adrenaline affects the body and how during spats of mass hysteria the body tries its hardest just to survive. This becomes clear throughout history in places such as England during the plague.