Fahrenheit 451 Week 3 Defense Mechanisms

On Tuesday, 21 October 2015, SPC Bellasario you were given a task to lay out 13 tents with personnel to assist. 1LT Lassik explained to you that he wanted all 13 tents layed out in TM order. 1LT Lassik also explained he wanted you to make 5 complete sets, and take what was needed to complete these sets from the other 8 sets of tents. When the task was complete you were instructed to call 1LT Lassik and inform him of the completed task so he could re-check and verify that the task was done correctly. SPC Bellasario detailed instruction was given to you to complete this tasking the next day.

I picked the top panel on page seven of chapter 12. I picked this panel because of the shape, the iconography, and the closure that is created. This panel is in the shape of a rectangle and makes it seem like this moment is stretched out and paused. It is very still because of all the death that is blocked off by the gutter, but it is still surrounding freezing it into a quiet moment of stillness. It is also a moment-to-moment transition panel, so the sense of time being stretched is further emphasized by this. If you look at Laurie’s distressed face, you will notice that her tear is the shape of the blood splatter on the iconic Watchmen smiley face symbol. With a little closure, it makes it seem as though she is crying tears of blood for all the dead people. Also, Laurie is wearing a choker with a skull icon on it that tactfully emphasizes the destruction of New York.

With the Presidential Election drawing closer to American’s everyday, voters have a choice for President for the next four years. Yet the questions remains as to what truly drives voters to go to the polls every four years. American’s face many issues in this election; however, the issue I’m going to focus on boils down to one simple thing: EPA Regulation and coal. Coal has been seen as a main source of energy in multiple states such as Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. During the past eight years, the production of coal has suffered due to excessive regulation by both the Obama Administration and the EPA. With all of this being said, I will be voting for Donald Trump for President and Mike Pence for Vice President under the Republican

He wasn’t right to call in an alarm on Montag. Montag was just reading a guest book and wouldn’t talk to Beatty. He tried and tried to talk to her but she wouldn’t talk to him. Mildred said he called in the alarm cause he pretty much felt bad for Montag and wanted to help him get better. I don’t think Mildred should've called an alarm on Montag, because yes he was angry but he would of gotten over it sooner or later. He could've just talked to him about it instead of making a big scene out of it.

Bernadette Devlin, an Irish civil rights leader and former politician claims that, “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else”. This quotation applies to Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, from the main character, Montag's, point of view as many challenges are thrown at him while living in a dystopian society. The word “lose”, is seen as a negative connotation but really is symbolically positive as it relates to sacrifice. Throughout the book, Guy Montag has lost important people in his life as well as his job and house, but in turn has gained new thoughts and people who will help him rebuild society.

As with any personality type, defense mechanisms play a major role in how we handle situations. The ego has many techniques at its disposal to deal with unwanted thoughts and desires. These are known collectively as defense mechanisms. (Burger 2015 p. 46) Defense mechanisms are automatic psychological responses to internal and external stressors and conflict. (APA, 1994: Perry et al., 1998)

Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, is an alarming science fiction classic novel and a powerful commentary on humankind’s urge to suppress what it doesn’t understand. In this dystopian fictional world books are illegal; they are burned to a crisp when found. Books are very powerful. They come with knowledge, and knowledge can bring fear. Fear many times is something one cannot understand. To understand, one must know why one fears. Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 realizes this importance of the knowledge in books when he meets a young woman; Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is an outsider, a very different type of girl. When she meets Montag, Clarisse sparks a change in him. Her curiosity and questioning is so unique that Montag is struck by her. He

When comparing the two novels read this year, the divergent role of escape in the two texts read are distinctly noticeable. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, escape portrays a trail leading Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books, to his liberation. Escape illustrates this journey of freedom when Montag makes the decision to flee from his repressive society. For Montag this decision originates when he encounters a young inspirational girl named Clarisse. Through Clarisse Montag discovers his ability to develop thoughts with ideas, opinions, and feelings. After his encounter with Clarries, he discovers an unfamiliar emotion. Some of these feelings cause him pain and some give him pleasure. From these strange emotions, he discovers the true feelings of love, sorrow, and joy. This encounter enlightens Montag and assists him in perceiving the disturbing truth of his society. He realizes his society limits his thinking by brainwashing people into believing they are happy when in reality they are nowhere near it. Hence, he makes it his goal to free himself from this repressive and depressing society by escaping. Contrasting to this, the role of escape in Uglies, by Scott Westfield is unlike Fahrenheit 451. This novel is about a dystopian society where every sixteen-year-old living in the “Uglies” town goes through a surgery to turn them pretty. Once they undergo the surgery they have the authorization to live in a supposedly glorious and marvelous place called the “New Pretty

Ever imagine being stuck in a society where change/modification is never adapted? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury explains how change is never accepted and access to meaningful information is censored or denied. In his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses repetition to convey the message that by concealing the access to information, a society cannot be refined or modified. The first example I found of this literary device was on page 28, when Montag and Clarisse had just finished their discussion about seeing the same actions/characteristics continuously. In the text the author says, “One two three four five six seven days: the firehouse” (Bradbury 29). Another example of the same words is on page 25, “One

Now at first glance anyone may look at the book and wonder what does Fahrenheit 451 mean? Well Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches on fire. This is our first glimpse into Ray Bradbury’s dystopian world in Fahrenheit 451. So, this book was originally published in 1953 during World War II and starting the Cold War, which plays a huge role in what this book symbolizes. The author of Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury.

People whose self-concept high incongruence makes their experience contradict with their self-perception. Relatively incongruent self-concept leads to recurrent anxiety. There for from this anxiety they display defensive behaviour in order to relate their experience with their self-concept so that it will seem quite accurate, i.e. they protect their self-concept by displaying defensive behaviour of ignoring, denying and twisting reality (Wieten, 2014).

The protagonist and deuteragonist in Fahrenheit 451 are introduced as having opposing views on society. Montague, the main character is initially shown to be a conforming individual. This is confirmed by the mention that for him "It was a pleasure to burn … a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (Bradbury 1). The description shows that the protagonist felt no sense of guilt for his actions and that he believed that there was nothing wrong with what he was doing. The deuteragonist, on the other hand, is shown to be an open minded individual. Her objectivity of thought is clearly demonstrated by the conversation she has with Montague. Statements such as " Do you ever read any of the books you bum? … Is it

Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, was written a a warning the the society then, but its warning can still be applied directly to our current society as a way to prevent it from becoming something terrible. It’s a warning to people, for them to think for themselves and to not let themselves be consumed by technology and neglect interaction with other humans.

Authors use literary as devices such irony, foreshadowing,or flashbacks to help develop the theme of a story. Novels such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, use these literary devices to elaborate on and support one common theme. Even short stories such as “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury use literary devices to make their stories and plots more interesting and to develop their themes. Literary devices are an important part of writing and an essential part of any plot, story, or theme.

There fifteen common defense mechanisms: denial, regression, acting out, dissociation, compartmentalization, projection, reaction formation, repression, displacement, intellectualization, rationalization, undoing, sublimation, compensation, and assertiveness. The last few are known as mature defense mechanisms. They are the most constructive and helpful for most adults, however they require practice and effort to use in daily use.