Peter Brownrigg, a 14-year-old boy who lives in Cumberland in the north of England, is involved in a secret night protest against the theft of his village's farmland by Sir Philip Morton. He leaves his village to escape prosecution for throwing a rock at Sir Philip Morton. He first goes to Penrith, but unexpectedly encounters Sir Philip at a performance of Richard III by a touring playing company. He hides from him in a prop coffin (supposed to contain the body of King Henry VI) which is later carried on to the company's cart.…
The Fahrenheit 451 symbol I created is an atomic bomb with the tail of a book. This represents Montag because he spread knowledge and the importance of books to the society and it ended with the fall of the city. He knew the power of books and people hated him for it. The background is perfect blue skies with clouds because it shows how shielded from the truth people were in the society by the government. they don't even know anything about neighboring cities. “And across the world, thought Montag, how many other cities dead? And here in our country, how many? A hundred, a thousand?” (155) Everyone thought everything was okay and just another war until suddenly the bomb came and decimated everything around them and the intellectuals and montage…
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the main character begins to question his life when he meets Clarisse. Before his encounter with Clarisse, Montag simply went about his business as a fireman and did as he was told. However, Clarisse challenges Montag to "think" about things, which results in Montag to question his life, his role as a fireman, and the illegality of books. This questioning of who he is and what his society has become separates himself from the norm and his wife, leaving him to be an outcast. Being an outcast, though gives Montag hope and happiness for what is to come for the future.…
Fahrenheit 451, created by Ray Bradbury, is a book about a man that lives in an authoritarian society. The main character, Guy Montag, deals with internal and external conflict. He struggles with himself and his occupation as a firefighter. “Harrison Bergeron” is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and it is also takes place in an authoritarian society. The main character, Harrison Bergeron, and his society were forced to be limited with mandates created by the government. Bergeron is challenged by an external conflict because his government is forcing him to have burdens that limit himself. Bradbury and Vonnegut, Jr. both challenge the reader to think about equality…
An individual possesses one of two mindsets: either the fixed mindset, or the growth mindset. In the former, someone believes that his talent and intelligence is present inside of him at birth. He is born either smart or dumb, and there is no use trying to get better at something that he is initially not skilled at. Furthermore, his success is a measure of how naturally good he is at something. To the latter, success is defined by his ability to face challenges and make mistakes. To a person with a growth mindset, failure is simply room for improvement. In Mindset, Dr. Dweck proves the existence of these two divergent systems of thought, and declares that everyone can alter their beliefs and acquire the growth mindset.…
Protagonists of a story quickly become favorite characters of countless readers. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, one of the protagonists is Reuven Malter, the son of David Malter. Along with his father, Reuven Malter is an orthodox Jew. In addition, Reuven has a great friend named Danny Saunders. Danny and Reuven meet at a baseball game between the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. Even though other team mates think of Danny and his team as “Murderers,” Reuven decides to not judge them before he notices their character. After Danny injures Reuven during the game, the two become best friends. Reuven Malter shows numerous admiral character traits throughout the book, however, the three most prominent in the story consist of kind, fair, and admirable.…
Ever thought about getting turned into a bug? Well, in the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka the main character, Gregor gets turned into a bug. The hard working family man wakes up to find himself as a grotesque vermin. His whole life changes when his family discovers him in his nauseating state. They keep him locked up in his room and can hardly stand to look at him. Not only Gregor is inflicted by this awful, sudden change. His family, without the life-support and money from Gregor’s job they can not pay rent. A sudden change like this can happen to anyone, it unexpectedly changes not only the person going through the change but also their loved ones. Most of these changes are often not for the better.…
There have been many arguments over whether a child is a blank state formed by experiences, or if their upbringing is responsible for their education. It can be seen through several examples that children are a direct result of the experiences they have. When people have positive experiences they tend to have a more optimistic outlook on life and lead good lives. The opposite is true for people that have bad childhoods. The book Frankenstein is a perfect example of this because the monster starts out with a blank mind, and is molded by his experiences. There are also several real life examples of adults’ lives being a reflection on the childhood they had.…
For many people, seeing someone who is different may be hard to accept. In Frankenstein, a plethora of characters mentioned were unable to accept that the monster was, for want of a better word, a person. There is an innumerable amount of traits that make a us human and the monster appeared to have many of them. The qualities that make us human include the ability to care, intense emotions, the ability to tell right from wrong, and competence. Examples of the monster portraying these traits are spread out through the book.…
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a physician in London and is “a large, well-made, smooth faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness” (15). He is described as being “professional in shape and size” (58). Dr. Jekyll was born “to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among [his] fellowmen…with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future” (54) Jekyll began looking into the nature of man and reflecting upon man’s dual nature; that “man is not truly one, but truly two” (55) One being good, and the other ill. “If each could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable…it was the curse of mankind that these…were bound together” (55). He deliberated human evil and how it could be perceived as a living being inside of man and constructed an ingenious idea that, with the correct combination of chemicals, good and evil could, in…
Many teenagers go through lots of different relationships and sometimes they get lost during their routes to become an adult. They find it hard to realize what the right thing is and what is being the right way. In the episode My So Called Life, the main character, Angela Chase, goes through many relationships. Angela was a student who did well, and pleased her family and friends around her. However, a change happens, when she meets Rayanne, a new friend, and she starts to act differently. She tries out many things, such as ditching class, dying her hair red or going out on school nights, which she never would have done before and develops a new personality (a bad one). Throughout the story, we see a variety of character traits from Angela. Although Angela is always herself, she hasn’t yet found her true self, her personality that is hiding inside her, and developing her relationships with others.…
Frankenstein’s monster is most frequently seen as, of course, a monster. He is fearsome naturally, but he has the mind and spirit of a developing human child. The creature’s youthful demeanor exhibits itself through many examples. The most prevalent childish behaviors he has are; the creature’s fear of being alone and seeking attention and love, being completely unbiased and not judgmental at the dawn of his creation, and his lack of knowledge of the world around him.…
In the book, A Man Without Words, Susan Schaller takes an interpreting job at a community college in Los Angeles, California. On her first day, she finds a young man named Ildefonso who is around 27 years old with his arms tucked in and his head following the each student as they passed. Schaller sits with the young man and tries to talk to him, thinking that everyone in the room could understand sign language. Schaller learns that Ildefonso, an illegal alien from rural Mexico, deaf since birth had no concept of language—signed, spoken, or written. At first, when Schaller would sign to him, he simply mimicked her signs, which frustrated them both. After working with…
When Montag meets Clarisse he realizes there is something different about her. Clarisse's personality is something Montag has never seen before. After going on a walk with Clarisse, Montag has many thoughts. On page 9 it says, “ What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began. How long had they walked together? Three minutes? Five? Yet how large that time seemed now. How immense a figure she was on the stage before him; what a shadow she threw on the wall with her slender body!” Montag thinks this in his head when he gets home from the walk with Clarisse. This is the very beginning of Montag’s realization that there is more to life than what his society is telling him.…
Victor Frankenstein was so caught up in if he could give a creature life that he never thought if he should. Monsters are created to keep the borders of the unknown rigid. They are a warning for people like Victor and prevent them from becoming more than they are capable of. Shelley uses Victor’s creation and immediate hatred of his monster to represent Cohens fifth thesis, and shows that the monster is there to punish his overstep of the possible.…