Fahrenheit 451 Motifs, Part 2
- Begin your comment by typing the motif you are tracing.
- Then, type one passage that contains the motif. Be sure to use quotation marks. Write the page number after the passage. No two people may post the same passage.
- Finally, explain how Bradbury uses the motif in this passage.
posted by Cheryl Makovsky | 12:31 PM
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Fire
" And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Seated there in the midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks"(Bradbury 78).
This image means that Montag is trying to find good in the world, the sieve, but the harder he searches, his act of pouring the sand through the sieve, he can find none.
EYES
Then his eyes touched on the book under Montag's arm and he did not look so old any more and not quite as fragile. Slowly, his fear went." Pg.80
This passage shows how Faber looked at the book and what looking at this book did to him. It shows that he looked at it gently and seeing this book made him look and feel better.
Technology- Granger nodded to a portable baterry tv set by the fire. "We've watched the chase. Figured you would wind up south along the river. When we heard you plunging around out in the forest like a drunken elk, we didnt hide like we usually do. We figured you were in the river when the helicopter cameras swung backa around". pg147
In this quote it seems like Montag is being hunted and going to be killed. But they are really just making a movie and using him with out his knowledge.
EYES-"There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there. Then his eyes touched the book" (pg.80)
In this pasage, Bradbury is using the description of Faber's eyes to show how very old he is. Also it symbolizes a life of dullness and no excitement. But even though it seems as though nothing could phase Faber, his eyes find the book and all of a sudden a new light of life shows through.
Fire
"They only see the blaze, the pretty fire, as you saw it."(103)
I think that BRadburry is trying to show that people are like the bugs that are drawn to light, only this time it is fire. They only see that beauty that comes out of something that can cause them so much pain.
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