Ray Bradbury's interviews showed a lot about his writings. They show the feelings coming from his heart and how they were poored into his books.
Bradbury was trying to show in his book Fahrenheit 451 that television was taking away peoples imagination and their ability to think for themselves. Television or "walls" took away peoples desire to read to look beyond the surface of things in life, it took away peoples ability to be content with the smallest things in the world. "Clarisse was the essence of life and love," Bradbury said, and this is shown completely by the way that Montag feels about Clarisse. Most things that Montag brings up that is meaningful he relates back to Clarisse showing how that she is tied to all these things. In Fahrenheit 451 the absence of books makes the people seem as if they have nothing to live for and once Montag finds the meaning of these books he starts to have a joy and reason for life.
Bradbury was very effective in this book and makes the reader really look at things in life today that might be a hinderence to our values in life. Today we have more than television, we have phones, computers, internet, ipods, ect. and with all these different technologies in our lives it seems like some of us dont have time for anything else or time to "stop and smell the roses". Bradbury brings this point across so well in his books and his interview was so great to see how he spoke about these feelings and not just read them from a page.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury catches his readers attention by showing how an everyday thing would be missed if taken away. Reading and books are what he draws our attention to in Fahrenheit 451 he shows how people like Montag start to lose their values of life. He forgets to look around at the amazing world surrounding him and enjoying the small things in life like looking for the man in the moon or tasting the rain. Clarisse is the essence of life and love in this novel and Montag is privileged to find this essence.
Faber was a stepping stone for Montag which helped him to start having a mind of his own and start wondering about what was in the books he was burning. Faber gave Montag the kindling for his fire, he gave him the curiosity and desire to know what was beyond the cover of the book. Faber is also what keeps Montag going after he finds there is no one else to go to for understanding after he lost Clarisse.
Montag realizes that there are more than one fire in this world and finds what they are when he takes the path of Clarisse. There are different types of fire that can give off different types of feelings and different reactions. The fire used to burn books was always very hot and gave an evil feeling to those around. This type of fire was killing the voices of people. The fire that was used to warm the homeless in the woods was welcoming and gave the feeling of secureness. This type of fire was giving Montag the ability to find his voice.
I said that Montag had found the different types of fires when he took "Clarisse's path" because as Montag walked along the railroad tracks he felt as if Clarisse had walked there once before. This may be a way to look differently at Montags journey into the forest away from those that were chasing him. Montag was running from people that wanted to kill him for having a mind of his own, like trying to find the mystery behind the cover of the books. Clarisse was also running from those in the world that wanted her to have a mind like theirs, like going to school and having to do things for someone else and not for yourself. Montag was experiencing new feelings and new things like love and joy and the taste of rain on his tongue. Clarisse was showing him how to find these new things and how to embrace them. Montag in the end was able to find his voice and to find how to carry that voice until he was able to share it but Clarisse had her voice all along and was able to share it they both needed to find a way to get people to take action though.
Fahrenheit 451 was a touching book that opened my eyes to the things in life that we take for granted or maybe that we use too much that make us lose sight of all other things in life.
Faber was a stepping stone for Montag which helped him to start having a mind of his own and start wondering about what was in the books he was burning. Faber gave Montag the kindling for his fire, he gave him the curiosity and desire to know what was beyond the cover of the book. Faber is also what keeps Montag going after he finds there is no one else to go to for understanding after he lost Clarisse.
Montag realizes that there are more than one fire in this world and finds what they are when he takes the path of Clarisse. There are different types of fire that can give off different types of feelings and different reactions. The fire used to burn books was always very hot and gave an evil feeling to those around. This type of fire was killing the voices of people. The fire that was used to warm the homeless in the woods was welcoming and gave the feeling of secureness. This type of fire was giving Montag the ability to find his voice.
I said that Montag had found the different types of fires when he took "Clarisse's path" because as Montag walked along the railroad tracks he felt as if Clarisse had walked there once before. This may be a way to look differently at Montags journey into the forest away from those that were chasing him. Montag was running from people that wanted to kill him for having a mind of his own, like trying to find the mystery behind the cover of the books. Clarisse was also running from those in the world that wanted her to have a mind like theirs, like going to school and having to do things for someone else and not for yourself. Montag was experiencing new feelings and new things like love and joy and the taste of rain on his tongue. Clarisse was showing him how to find these new things and how to embrace them. Montag in the end was able to find his voice and to find how to carry that voice until he was able to share it but Clarisse had her voice all along and was able to share it they both needed to find a way to get people to take action though.
Fahrenheit 451 was a touching book that opened my eyes to the things in life that we take for granted or maybe that we use too much that make us lose sight of all other things in life.
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