Characterization Fahrenheit 451 Short Response Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian future when all books are required to be burned. The story is about Guy Montag‚ a stoic fireman whose job it is to burn books. He wears a fire helmet with the numbers 451‚ which represents the temperature at which paper burns. Montag takes pride in his job and does what he has been told without questioning it. In the beginning of the book‚ he thinks of himself as being happy. There is always a “fiery” smile on
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1/17/13 The Age of the Disposable Tissue In both stories‚ The Crucible and Fahrenheit 451‚ people are treated as disposable tissues. Being treated like a disposable tissue is when somebody uses another person for what they want‚ and then getting rid of them when they don’t need the person anymore. In The Crucible‚ characters are accusing other characters of witchcraft in order to relieve themselves of the blame and guilt. In Fahrenheit 451‚ characters get what they want out of their lives
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Figurative Language Definitions Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of a single letter in the alphabet (as in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers.") or a combination of letters (as in "She sells seashells by the seashore."). It’s just about the easiest form of repetition a poet can use. Metaphor A metaphor compares two unlike things. "My baby sister’s a doll‚" you might say‚ compares your sister’s size and sweetness to that of the perfection of a doll. At another time you might
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Advise him to take your advice to sit in his own seat. 15. The Moro moron was marooned in Morocco land. 16. I’m thinking of something and that something I’m thinking is something I used to think when I’m thinking of something. 17. She sells seashells on the seashore. 18. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought‚ I wouldn’t have thought so much! 19. Upon the midnight dreary‚ I pondered
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Who are Mildred Montag and Clarisse McClellan? Mildred and Clarisse are the main female characters in Fahrenheit 451. These two women both represent the two sides of society. Clarisse represent the feared and unspoken. She is extremely anti-social to the outside world. While Mildred is more outspoken. Mildred is a social able person that falls in with the crowd. She does everything everyone else does. She honestly does not care about anything or anyone. (Besides her TV family) Everything about Mildred
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given to me by people I care about. The next thing I notice is the two display shelves that are positioned directly above my dresser and are of the same cherry wood tone. These hold the memories of friends and loved ones in the form of pictures‚ seashells‚ and small trinkets. On the right and left sides of these two shelves hang two pictures: one of my family during the Christmas of 2009‚ and the other of three angels flying carelessly through Heaven’s beachside paradise. Another item that stands
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sleep cuz it is 12. I want to go to sleep. people are bugging me and i want this day to end. UGHHHHH this essay needs to be longer so I appologize for this mess. Please ignore the rest of my ’work’ for it will not be good. ughhhhh. Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
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example of a happiness sighting is when Montag sees his wife sitting around and listening to music‚ "She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away....she was a expert at lip reading from ten years apprenticeship at Seashell ear thimbles(18.) Already in the morning Mildred ‚Montag’s wife‚ is already doing she likes to do.Which‚ apparently‚ is listening to her music. Also in the passage‚ it says that she has been listening to her music for ten years. Which means she has
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mind to more than the literal meanings of words Quatrains: four lines Repetition: a sound‚ word‚ phrase‚ or line that is repeated for emphasis and unity Alliteration: petition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words Sally sells seashells by the sea shore. Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in words that don’t end with the same consonant Words shy and dappled‚ deep-eyed deer in herds. Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words Whose nest
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friends. Today‚ I’m going to talk about what your handwriting says about you. How you craft letters and words can indicate more than 5000 different personality traits. To introduce students to the field‚ graphologists have them write ‘she sells seashells by the seashore’ in cursive. Why cursive? Graphologists say it gives them a better read on a person. Try writing a same sentence now in cursive and see how graphologists might characterize you. Firstly‚ if your writing slants to the right‚ it means
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