Fahrenheit 451 Signpost Analysis

Montag's desire to acquire knowledge through books is dealt with by the rulers is that Montag’s boss, Beatty, says it was normal for a fireman to go through these phases of fascination of what books have to offer. Beatty tells Montag,” What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.” But, Beatty is missing the point on how valuable books can be. So Beatty tells Montag to read through all of the books Montag has stashed to see if the books contain anything worthwhile, then the next day turn them in to be burned.

Well, in this city, a hound is completely different. It is a mechanical ‘hound’ that has eight spider-like legs and has a needle which ejects euthanasia into its victims. It uses this to kill them, or hold them down. When Montag breaks the law, the hound is set off on him, keeping his scent through chemical imprint. The hound is set on Montag, there is a chase for several hours and finally Montag makes it into the forest. Upon arriving, he meets some other people, and Montag find out that the hound was used to kill an innocent man, for the government did not want to worry the public (It does not seem as though they care about the public, quite

At first a reader may wonder why the hound even in the book? Only when the hounds symbolism is revealed is the question answered. In the story the Hound acts like the enforcer of the no book law that has been enforced for many generations. When more people started to be on the earth they made it so all the authors had to write the same books so people would read them. However because all the books were the same and boring people stopped reading altogether. The hound is the same way because the hound is society. The hound scares people into acting just like today's society teaches people to act and look a certain way. Montag is affected by this because while he is on his journey of enlightenment the hound just like society tries to change him. On page 133 the announcer on the TV Montag was watching said all these terrifying things about the hound. It's said “---nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes in ten thousand men without resting!” Just like society the hound was scaring Montag however he stood up and got away from the temptation of giving

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

of Beatty. Montag then runs away and tries to hide. A hound is sent after Montag to kill

example explained in the novel was when Billy got his hounds and he trained the and

having stolen a book and kept it, later that night, thinks that the hound is actually outside of his

Montag encounters a sign when he sees a deer on his journey. Bradbury writes, “The hound, Montag gave one last agonized shout as if this were too much for any man. Montag was alone in the wilderness. A deer” (144). Montag thought he saw the hound that is out to get him but it was just a deer, this was a sign to keep going on his journey.

After Montag killed Beatty and the other firemen, he began to run. He ran and ran, knowing that he would probably die. He knew that he shouldn’t, but he went to Faber’s house. He and Faber watched the news. War was being declared, and they were out for Montag. They were beginning to let out the hound. The Hound would be able to track

2. Montag goes to Faber 's house where he learns a new hound is on his trail.

(Watt 41). Bradbury reinforces this contrast by causing Mildred to relate only to the subject of herself, while Clarisse's favorite subject is other people. When Montag meets the Mechanical Hound, he discovers that it is a "dead beast, [a] living beast" (Bradbury 24). Donald Watt describes it as a "striking and sinister gadget" and it "is most terrifying for being both alive and not alive" (41; Huntington 113). The Hound becomes "Montag's particular mechanical enemy…[and it] becomes more suspicious of him" as time passes and Montag develops a greater freedom from his society (Johnson 112). Thus, Montag is thrust into the realization that his culture is not flawless, but instead is rife with abuses of human freedoms.

P - Neither Montag nor the people in the "book-saving" society are discovered by the Hound.

The Scarlet Letter shows Nathaniel Hawthorne’s way of using various signs to evolve the characters and help them atone for their sins and rid their fear of consequences. “A sign has tremendous power to communicate a message that transcends the sign itself.” (Gray 19) The Scarlet Letter involves an adulterous scandal between the two main characters, and how they live with the embarrassment and shame that comes with the sin. Hawthorne’s use of different signs such as the “A” and the scaffold help accompany the reader in understanding each character. Through Hawthorne’s writing, the reader gains a deeper meaning of the story, and that is achieved through signs.

The first sign was a word he couldn't find. Somewhere in the back of his mind it was hiding. Did he ever know it? Yes, of course he did. Otherwise, why would he look for it now? But was he looking for a certain word? Or was he looking for a word to show a thought? There were so many words.

TH: Well, you must remember that I am a purebred hunting hound and tracking prey has and will always be a cornerstone of my nature, but I will say that many of the unfortunate events that followed my “attacks” on the moor were motivated by my unstable physical and mental condition as a result of Mr. Stapleton’s abusive treatment of me as his “pet”. In his devious scheming and mistreatment of his good-natured wife, he often neglected my own welfare and as a result starved me for months at a time while I was kenneled on the island in the middle of the foul Grimpen Mire. This made me considerably more irritable and more desperate to obtain food for myself, which sometimes led me to dining on a moorland sheep or occasional traveller in order to fulfill the demands of my ravenous appetite.