At an early age of losing her father and living from the period of post and pre world war 2, Plath related herself to those who suffered. On various occasions, Plath relates herself to the treatment of Jews. I think this was the beginning of the rift between them. Norma Jean had some resentment for Leroy for leaving her to deal with all her emotions by herself. They were in it together, but never dealt with it together. Now Leroy is back and Norma Jean must see him everyday.
She tries to escape from the pain and resentment that she feels by taking up different hobbies. The natural resilience his children display is admirable and probably has much to do with how he and their mother raised them. They show a type of frustration that is both contained and civilized. They avoid expressing their emotions too much throughout the story. A Discussion of Wisdom Amongst the many rich tales that are told throughout our culture and across the world, many can teach us wonderful things about life on this earth.
The wisdom of people and lessons that have been learned are often passed along through stories to be taken to anyone willing to learn.
Often these messages are overlooked or pushed aside when they really do deserve our full attention. In the hectic world that we live in today, it is hard to turn away from the loud media and listen to the humble teachers that try to bring us into the light of true knowledge.
It is difficult to understand why Montag loves burning so much, and the fact that he receives so much pleasur He is cast out of his own job and home, but at the last moment his decision saves him from certain destruction by a nuclear bomb.
Montag becomes a hero, one of the last few remaining with the power of literature contained in their minds. Understandably, at the beginning of the novel, Montag is very proud to be a fireman. It is one of the few jobs in the society, and he takes a certain primal joy in doing it. However, there is a specific moment in the beginning of the book when Montag begins to realize that maybe there is something bad with burning down houses and killing people because they had books.
He spends the first third of the novel reflecting on the aspects of his social and personal life that contribute to his unhappiness, and he grows curious about books. Montag initially encountered Faber in a park before the events of the novel.
Montag recalls the incident, which began with Faber hiding something suspicious in his coat pocket. When Montag approached him, Faber reacted with fear, but eventually grew courageous enough to admit that he was a retired English professor.
I talk the meaning of things. When Beatty orders Montag to burn his own house, he discloses that both Mildred and her friends reported his book stash. A few weeks after Montag meets Clarisse, she disappears. Mildred later tells Montag that Clarisse was run over and killed by a car and that her family moved away.
In fact, Montag even believes as much when he is run down by a car full of teenagers later in the novel. Flowers, butterflies, leaves, sunsets, oh, hell! Look at that sick look on your face. A few grass blades and the quarters of the moon. What trash. What good did she ever do with all that? He realizes that he does not really care about anyone, including his wife Mildred.
People in his society don't think about others feelings when acting. From this, Montag learns the meaning of caring. He learns what a terrible place it is to live in, where no one cares about anyone but themselves.
This only changes Montag for the better. At one point, Montag and the other firemen go to a house because a lady has books concealed in her home.
The fire chief, Captain Beatty also senses Montag's unhappiness. Upon entering the upper level of the firehouse, Montag questions whether the Mechanical Hound can think. Beatty, who functions as the apologist of the dystopia, points out that the Hound "doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.
After several more days of encountering Clarisse and working at the firehouse, Montag experiences two things that make him realize that he must convert his life. The first incident is one in which he is called to an unidentified woman's house to destroy her books. Her neighbor discovered her cache of books, so they must be burned.
The woman stubbornly refuses to leave her home; instead, she chooses to burn with her books. The second incident, which occurs later the same evening, is when Millie tells Montag that the McClellans have moved away because Clarisse died in an automobile accident — she was "run over by a car. If the Hound and Captain Beatty are a gauge of Montag's growing "disease" Bradbury's word , the news of Clarisse's death, coupled with a fire call to the unidentified woman's house, brings about his conversion.
Montag decides to talk with Millie about his dissatisfaction with his job as a fireman and about the intrinsic values that a person can obtain from books. Suddenly, he sees that Millie is incapable of understanding what he means. All she knows is that books are unlawful and that anyone who breaks the law must be punished. Fearing for her own safety, Millie declares that she is innocent of any wrongdoing, and she says that Montag must leave her alone.
After this confrontation with Millie, Montag entertains the idea of quitting his job, but instead, he decides to feign illness and goes to bed. When Captain Beatty, who is already suspicious of Montag's recent behavior, finds that Montag hasn't come to work, he makes a sick call to Montag's home. Beatty gives Montag a pep talk, explaining to him that every fireman sooner or later goes through a period of intellectual curiosity and steals a book.
Beatty seems to know, miraculously, that Montag stole a book — or books. Beatty emphatically stresses that books contain nothing believable. He attempts to convince Montag that they are merely stories — fictitious lies — about nonexistent people. He tells Montag that because each person is angered by at least some kind of literature, the simplest solution is to get rid of all books.
Ridding the world of controversy puts an end to dispute and allows people to "stay happy all the time. He concludes his lecture by assuring Montag that the book-burning profession is an honorable one and instructs Montag to return to work that evening. Immediately following Beatty's visit, Montag confesses to Mildred that, although he can't explain why, he has stolen, not just one book, but a small library of books for himself during the past year the total is nearly 20 books, one of which is a Bible.
He then begins to reveal his library, which he's hidden in the air-conditioning system. When Millie sees Montag's cache of books, she panics. Montag tries to convince her that their lives are already in such a state of disrepair that an investigation of books may be beneficial. Millie is unconvinced. What neither of them know is that the Mechanical Hound probably sent by Captain Beatty is already on Montag's trail, seemingly knowing Montag's mind better than Montag himself.
Fahrenheit is currently Bradbury's most famous written work of social criticism. It deals with serious problems of control of the masses by the media, the banning of books, and the suppression of the mind with censorship. The novel examines a few pivotal days of a man's life, a man who is a burner of books and, therefore, an instrument of suppression. This man Montag lives in a world where the past has been destroyed by kerosene-spewing hoses and government brainwashing methods.
In a few short days, this man is transformed from a narrow-minded and prejudiced conformist into a dynamic individual committed to social change and to a life of saving books rather than destroying them. Before you begin the novel, note the significance of the title, degrees Fahrenheit, "the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns.
The implications of both concepts — one, a simple fact, and the other, a challenge to authority — gain immense significance by the conclusion of the book. In the first part of Fahrenheit , Bradbury uses machine imagery to construct the setting and environment of the book. He introduces Guy Montag, a pyromaniac who took "special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
Montag has a smile permanently etched on his face; he does not think of the present, the past, or the future. According to his government's views, the only emotion Montag should feel, besides destructive fury, is happiness. He views himself in the mirror after a night of burning and finds himself grinning, and he thinks that all firemen must look like white men masquerading as minstrels, grinning behind their "burnt-corked" masks.
Later, as Montag goes to sleep, he realizes that his smile still grips his face muscles, even in the dark. The language — "fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles" — suggests that his smile is artificial and forced. Soon he will understand that this small bit of truth is an immense truth for himself. At present, Montag seems to enjoy his job as a fireman. He is a "smiling fireman. Montag smiles, but he is not happy.
The smile, just like his "burnt-corked" face, is a mask. You discover almost immediately when Montag meets Clarisse McClellan that he is not happy.
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