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Fahrenheit 451 last third

This is the final chapter in the book and it is essentially the climax of the story.

Bradbury presents it in a very poetic way, with lots of figurative language and comparisons.

the sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!

For a brief synopsis, view link below:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jonachen91092?feature=mhee

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Fahrenheit 451 second third

Probably one of the most important symbols happen in this chapter. Montag compares trying to read the bible with a childhood memory of trying to fill a sieve with sand. no mater how hard he tries, he just can't make it stick, and he hoped that, if he reads fast enough, some of the material will stay in his memory. The sand is symbolic of the tangible truth Montag seeks and the sieve of the human mind seeking truth. Truth is elusive and, the metaphor suggests, impossible to grasp in any permanent way.

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Fahrenheit 451-first third

This first chapter of the story is the explanation chapter where authors introduces the characters, the setting and the start of the conflict to the audience. it is a very well thought out piece, because literally every other word or phrase has a meaning and effect, either immediate or subtle. For example, we have the conversation Guy had with Clarisse, it was had an immediate effect on Guy and he went from the happy firemen to a hopeless amateur philosopher who is trying to figure out what is wrong with society. Another example is how Bradbury uses paradoxes a lot, like " the room was not empty yet indeed empty" and the hound was alive but also not alive.

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This week I have really scared my self too much, so i am transgressing into fantasy books. i heard from daniel that fantasy is really fascinating and relaxing genre, i'll give it a go. I already picked out some fantasy books, how do I know if they are fantasy? Well, the title makes it quite obvious. I have checked out Cry of Icemark, Septimus Heap I~IV and Rangers Apprentice I~VII. So thats 12 books i have planned for next week. I did begin reading Cry of Icemark, and i have to say, i'm pretty not used to this rapid transition from extreme horror and gore with maximum suspense to some far away kingdom that sounds a little like the Scandinavian countries which is under attack with not so much as a intense-scare-you-to-death-while-you-sleep kinda scene. Well, i'm working on it. Guess i'm still on King trauma.

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I Have finished all my funny and easy books, and moved on to some more serious and scary works, namely Stephen King. His works are truly terrifying and chilled me to the bone. It make you think you are reading a historical event. it just seems so....REAL, he even included himself as a character in the Dark Towers and explained that he wrote this book because his characters talked to him in person and had to protect him, because if the evil kills him, the story won't be written and the characters would fail to exist anymore. his intense pacing of the plot really helped amplify the story. in the story the characters travel between worlds and time to save a Tower, the axis of the multiverse, during the trip, they encounter new friends and foes. one character named Pere Callahan was introduced, but he was the main character of another Stephen King book called Salm's lot. Callahan finds this book which was fiction, but described his life in detail. they began searching for this Stephen king, who they think is their God. this gave me a really terrible thought, what if i was only a character, thought up by some random unknown writer? what if i'm only a pawn in his book? with every move i make planned out already? and , if he makes me die, will i die? these are what makes his books so scary and real.

i don't like the feeling , but its really hard to resist. this is a really good series, true or false.

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I have finished my stock of Terry Pratchett books. I have to say, he is a genius. He uses irony and sarcasm in such way that its absolutely hilarious. I started out with his most famous series, the Disk world. Disk world is a series of books that is set in the same universe, same characters appear in different books, but the books are only loosely connected, you can read just some of the books and it would make (somewhat) sense. the entire universe is a flip version of our universe, it makes fun of what happened in out world. the main world is not a "planet" because it is in the shape of a disk, hence the name Disk World. the world rests on 4 elephants which stands on a turtle which swims through the universe searching for a mate, when it finds another turtle ( with elephant and worlds on top) they mate and the world falls and is destroyed, their offspring then is born with its own set of elephants and world and the cycle goes on. in the world, there are eight colors in a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, purple and magic. there are 4 "genders": male, female, wizards and witches. the wizards study at a Unseen University and act all incompetent, while the witches act as healers but everyone still fears them and wants to burn them, Death is an occupation up for grabs and Gods tend to not know all that much about how biology works. I really recommend this series to anyone who need a laugh.

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This weekend i started to revisit some of my favorite books. I think i'll start with some Terry Pratchett, getting some laughs going, then progress into more serious stuff, like some Stephen King and scare myself to bed. Anyways, this week i did reread Fahrenheit 451 and I found out a lot of interesting stuff that i missed while reading the first time, like the use of fire in the book, its not only a symbol of destruction, but also a symbol of courage for the women who was burnt and a symbol of warmth when Montag runs away. This book is so full of hidden hints and messages, i have to read it again.