Personification In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

“An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t: they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That’s not social to me at all. It’s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it’s wine when it’s not.” (Bradbury 27)
In this quote Bradbury creates a phrase for Clarisse in which she describes a typical school day full of activities that are meaningless and create no time or place self discovery. Clarisse is also very bothered by the lack of opportunity to become close
He has hardly ever been in the peaceful, natural countryside and is overwhelmed by his senses. After stepping out of the river into the night air and safety Bradbury uses metaphor to help create imagery. The first metaphor comes in the phrase, “The land rushed at him, a tidal wave”. This metaphor helps the reader understand how overwhelmed Bradbury is to be on land again after being in a river for so long. Bradbury also uses personification in the phrase, “He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his body.” Bradbury gives darkness, the country, and smells the ability to crush Montag as well as ice him. Bradbury uses metaphor yet again by writing, “The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.” In this quote Bradbury gives the reader an image of Montag seeing stars in their entire beauty for the first time. There is one other literary device Bradbury uses throughout the entirety of this quote, imagery. Every metaphor and bit of personification leads toward creating an image of Montag stepping out of the river. He gives the reader the feeling of being on land, the incredible amount of darkness, the crushing beauty of the countryside, the scent of the wind, and the millions of stars that freckle the blackness of the night. Bradbury uses these literary devices in order to show the reader a perfect picture of the night that Montag steps into when he emerges from the river. Bradbury also does it to show how overwhelming it is to step out of a crowded, dirty, and artificial city into a serene, stunning, natural world. In this quote Bradbury writes Montag stepping out of the river using metaphor, personification, and imagery to give the reader a complete picture of the night’s beauty and how overwhelming it is for Montag, coming from a