Fahrenheit 451 Foreshadowing Analysis
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the readers can feel and recognize the apprehensive and irony tone as reading. The author chooses the gloomy dark sky as the setting for the beginning of the book when Montag, the main character, starts meeting a teenager girl, Clarisse as a way to introduce and a little foreshadowing for the readers about this novel. For example, the firemen in this book are not those people who help prevent the fire or run the fire away, but they are the people who start the fire, “‘ So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you’re just a man, after all…Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them like now?’” ( Bradbury 3) This quote from the book is showing how irony and
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Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot i the last year alone… My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn’t kill each other. But that was long time ago…’” (Bradbury 14) As the result, we can see how cruel and disgusting this world is, children can kill each other just like a normal thing in the society and there is no concern over there, and it is totally different in the world that we are living. As expected, the author is successful in making me feels horrified for all the events in the story as well as the unbelievable lifestyle of the society in the book. The reason why I’m having this feeling because I’m afraid that this world could be real in one day, and we are not going to live as human but we will be living as those emotionless robots without having any feelings toward people and memories. More than that, I also feel pity for the main character, for he lives in the life with no happiness and interest, but later on I’m glad that he starts finding that the knowledge of what is around him. In conclusion, the author is succeed as organizing the events, description of the settings as well as the character in order to create a irony and apprehensive tone for the story to make the readers feel a little of horrify and awareness for this could happen to our own world
Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot i the last year alone… My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn’t kill each other. But that was long time ago…’” (Bradbury 14) As the result, we can see how cruel and disgusting this world is, children can kill each other just like a normal thing in the society and there is no concern over there, and it is totally different in the world that we are living. As expected, the author is successful in making me feels horrified for all the events in the story as well as the unbelievable lifestyle of the society in the book. The reason why I’m having this feeling because I’m afraid that this world could be real in one day, and we are not going to live as human but we will be living as those emotionless robots without having any feelings toward people and memories. More than that, I also feel pity for the main character, for he lives in the life with no happiness and interest, but later on I’m glad that he starts finding that the knowledge of what is around him. In conclusion, the author is succeed as organizing the events, description of the settings as well as the character in order to create a irony and apprehensive tone for the story to make the readers feel a little of horrify and awareness for this could happen to our own world