In the third paragraph of the excerpt Tan uses vivid details to give the reader a sense of imagery. For…
Montag spends the rest of the damp afternoon reading uneasily through his books while Mildred sits slowly. Whenever Montag reads, he is often reminded of Clarisse. Mildred then complains that there’s no reason that their house should be burned down if anyone finds out just because of reading a book. Montag then talks of the ongoing wars and how people all over the world are suffering and starving while they live well, after hearing Mildred complain. Soon after giving Mildred a leisure, Montag wonders what he will be doing next and soon, then recalls an encounter with an English Professor named Faber. Montag calls Faber and questions him about how many copies of books he stole from the old woman that are left in the country.…
1. At the beginning of the story, how does Montag feel about his job? Give specific examples to support your response.…
Unfocused- When Montag tried to read the Bible in the subway he couldn't stop thinking about the Dentifrice commercial. He tried to refocus but continuously stopped and listened to the commercial.…
There is a crucial similarity between the Mechanical Hounds and the people of the monotonous society. These man – made creatures are living but not living, thinking but not thinking. They think what man tells it to think. And irony plays it, the people of…
For this assignment about motif analysis, I chose the references to darkness and light. This motif significantly establishes the development of the characters in Fahrenheit 451. Two examples are when the Narrator talks about Montag’s first introduction to Clarisse. Bradbury says “Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity… Her dress was white and it whispered.” Just by hearing that you can make a mental image of what Clarisse looks like and acts like. Similar to how he uses light to introduce Clarisse, he uses darkness to introduce the firemen. He says “They and their charcoal hair and soot-colored brows and bluish-ash-smeared cheeks where they had shaven close…Had he ever seen a fireman that didn’t have black hair, black brows, fiery face, and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look?” This also makes a mental picture showing the darkness and evilness that the firemen bring to the society.…
2) “…a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. She had a vessel on her shoulder, and her shoulder, and her head was covered by a veil, but her face was uncovered. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that in the world spoke--the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.” (page 92)…
MONTAG’S FACE RESEMBLED THAT OF A CORPSE as soon as he had heard the words come out of Granger’s mouth. Words of betrayal spilled right out of Granger’s mouth as he spoke into the walkie talkie. Montag felt his knees starting to give out, like someone had taken the energy straight out of him. His eyes were red with anger, almost comparable to the fires he set on the many houses of people similar to those he spent his days with now. His chest was like a speaker, vibrating rapidly with every breath. His hands were bleeding from the very action of clenching them.…
(pg.2) chp.1“Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain”. Pg. 37 (chp. 2)“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun…” pg. 40 (chp.3)“So he was aware of the bizarre accusations that flavored conversation in his halls”. Pg. 65 (chp.4)…
6. Anderson uses personification in, “Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding," (pg 144) in The Impossible Knife of…
Some of the sound devices include consonance, rhythm and alliteration with the repetition of the end sounds of such as in the words” pathless, seamless, peerless” (line 12-13), and “foothold, fingerhold, mindhold” (line 16-17). The speaker also used alliteration in line 19 with hipholes and hummocks.…
10. "There is a very funny mark on the wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the room. It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long straight, even smooch, as if it had been rubbed over and over." (pg 427)…
5) “Here’s the problem with symbols: people expect them to mean something. Not just any something, something in particular. Exactly. Maximum. You know what? It doesn’t work like that… so some symbols do have a relatively limited range of meanings, but in general a symbol can’t be reduced to standing for only one thing.” pg.55…
examples of personification found in There Will Come Soft Rains are, "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two…
9. What is the author’s purpose in describing what she sees as a “spirit” entering her room?…