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Symbolic Images of Part Three

"Fahrenheit 451"

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The novel starts out with a quote by Juan Jiminez: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."

A person will usually write on the lines of the paper, no matter how large or small the person's handwriting might be - thus conforming to the standards imposed by those lines. The quote says to write how you want to write and where you want to write. Just like the people in "Fahrenheit 451" should not let the government impose "unreasonable" laws and agree to be ruled by those laws.

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."

-Granger

This quote wants to say that our worth on earth is measured by what our hands have done. Mildred's hands have done nothing, and Montag's hands have started to do something.

Symbolic Images of Part One

THE END!!!

"Burning Bright"

The main theme in the last section of the book, "Burning Bright", would have to be that of destruction followed by rebirth. The whole city is blown up and destroyed. Everyone died: Millie, Captain Beatty, all the firefighters, everyone except Montag. Montag is given the chance to start recreating the world, maybe having books part of it, with the other few which survived. The city will be reborn just like the Phoenix who dies and comes back to life from its ashes. The city will be reborn back from its ashes.

"The Hearth and the Salamander"

The theme of part one of the book is Censorship. The Hearth and the Salamander's theme questions the rules of society. Montag, with the aide of Clarisse, suddenly is able to realize how the government has been brainwashing citizens to be "sparkly" and happy all the time, oblivious of the starvation and poorness of others in the world. Montag starts to understand why he is employed to burn books. Books hold knowledge, they contain philosophy, conflict, and could create unrest in the population.

"The Sieve and the Sand"

The theme of self-destruction is repeatedly emphasized through 'The Sieve and the Sand'. Millie is portrayed as "a wax doll melting in its own heat." By using the images of fire and heat, Bradbury presents Millie as the main reason for her own self destruction by choosing to ignore reality rather than seek out truth, as Montag wants to do. Despite his intentions, we see Montag display a self-destructive streak when he insists, despite Faber's disagreement, and reads poetry to Millie and her friends. The theme of self-destruction is also visited during Montag and Faber's initial conversation in Faber's apartment, when Faber speaks of the thought out plot to undermine the authority of firemen by planting books in their homes by saying, "the salamander devours its tail." This image establishes the idea of self-destruction present throughout the second part of the book.

Symbolic Images of Part Two

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"Patience, Montag, let war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. There has to be someone ready when it blows up."

-Faber

This quote does a great job in foreshadowing the future of the book. At the end of the book the city blows up due to the war, it has self-destructed.

Novel Themes

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