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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!

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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.