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    “A Rose for Emily” The setting is usually represented by the simplicity of a place and time. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner expands setting into something much more. The setting goes far beyond just the time and place, it involves the people and objects that surround Emily throughout the story. Faulkner uses those objects and people to show how Emily struggles with accepting the present and leaving the past behind. In the second paragraph, Faulkner refers to Emily’s house and what it had once

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    Choice can be defined as the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with multiple possibilities. In John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, the motifs of houses, hands, and money reflect how the pattern of good and evil repeat due to the reoccurring theme that one has the right to choose. In the novel, each house displays unique qualities specific to a character and their personality. For example, when Adam came upon Cathy’s whorehouse, he almost missed it if not for the “vein of light” that was

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    Fahrenheit 451 about book simply about burning books to keep the main population civilized. The book has a much deeper meaning than that. Each title of the chapters each have a meaning that is more dedicated to the content of the section rather than the overall situation. The Hearth and the Salamander represents home life, hearth, and his work life, Salamander. The Sieve and the Sand represent Montag trying to keep the knowledge, sand, in his mind, The Sieve. Burning bright represents the literal meaning

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    books, it is Mrs. Black’s house. When they arrive the light of the fire had already started from the burning of her house and books. Mrs. Black decided to stay in her house with her burning books and die. Montag wonders why

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a popular fiction book that portrays a dystopian world that coincidently look alike our society nowadays and even though fahrenheit 451 was written as a fiction book, it storyboard and plot is quite realistic. Fahrenheit 451 is centered in Guy Montag and his metamorphosis within a pretentious and ignorant society. Guy Montag works as a fireman who dedicates to start fires and burn every dangerous weapon (books) found within the houses. Eventually, Montag meets

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    fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'me to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan'"(8) Montag believes whole-heatedly that his work is "fine work" believes there is nothing wrong with relentlessly burning books, but Clarisse subtly seems to disagree, "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"'(8) it can be assumed Montag hasn't ever read the book, assumed that his small

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    Literary Analysis of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury “We never burned right…” (Bradbury 113) stated Guy Montag, the main character of Fahrenheit 451. This book is about a society that is oppressive and dictatorial. They depend on firemen to burn books at an attempt at censorship and to block free thinking. They obstruct books and literature as a way to restrict knowledge and understanding. One of the major theme of Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is as society gains more knowledge and wisdom

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    Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children ( also called Peculiar Children, written by Ransom Riggs, is the first in the Peculiar Children Trilogy. In Peculiar Children, Riggs writes of a young boy named Jacob. All throughout Jacobs's childhood, his grandfather told him preposterous stories with impossible people.. After his grandfather was murdered, Jacob isolated himself. He then talked to a psychiatrist who told him that going could be beneficial to visit the place his grandfather told stories

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    Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 presents readers with multiple themes. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned and firemen create fires instead of putting them out. Bradbury portrays the society as dystopian. Bradbury crafted the novel to be interpreted intellectually. The characters claim to be happy. However, the reader can conclude otherwise. Bradbury creates a question for the reader to answer: Is ignorance bliss or does the ability to think for oneself

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    Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. The novel describes a futuristic society in which books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The protagonist is a fireman named Montag who becomes perturbed with his role in censorship and destruction of knowledge, eventually quitting his job and joining a resistance movement that memorizes and shares the world's greatest literary works. As Montag struggles over the value of knowledge, he becomes

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