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Guy Montag was a fireman and was devoted to his job, until he met a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse changed Guys point of view on many things as he begins questioning himself on things that wouldnt commonly concern him. After Clarisse disappears Guys “hand” steals a book from a house before it catches fire. Later on he and Mildred sit down and read the secret stash of books he was keeping.
3. I believe the setting is sometime in mid-2000. Doors are programmed to announce visitors before they even arrive. Books are illegal, as is any true exercise of thought. Also television and radio has taken over peoples lives.
4. Fahrenheit 451 is written in third person omniscient. Unlike a universal point of view, we only know Guys perspective while everyone elses remains furtive.
6. Guy Montag faces “identity crisis” Montags identity crisis begins during his conversations with Clarisse. We immediately sense conflict between his desire to be an obedient member of society and his inner belief that something is wrong. Montag imagines that his new, rebellious half isnt him at all, but is really Clarisse. When he speaks, he imagines her talking through his mouth.
7. 1) Irony/Metaphor-“Ive lived alone for so many years, throwing images on walls of my imagination.”
2) Metaphor- “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run across the lawn with the mask.”
3) Metaphor- “Have you ever smelled old leaves? They smell sort of like cinnamon in way”
4) Metaphor- “The woman on the bed was no more than marble”
5) Hyperbole- “He felt his body divide, [] the two halves grinding upon each other”
6) Personification- The mechanical hound is given many human attributes as it can smell and see and move and kill, even though its just a robot.
7) Simile- “turned the men over like dominos in a line.”
8) Simile- “You make me feel very old and very much like a father.”
9) Verbal Irony- Every time Montag says he is in love and happy.
10) Verbal Irony- When Mildred refers to the actors on TV as her “Family”.
8. Tone: Dramatic, ignorance, intense
– Everybody goes with what “society” says by not accepting books and shunning those who pursue knowledge. (Ignorance)
– When Montag kills Beatty. (Intense)
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