Poetry Is Not A Luxury, In 'Fahrenheit 451'

Human beings are naturally curious. We are always in search of better ideas, and new solutions to problems. One of a basic idea of Indonesia has been freedom of thinking and a free flow of ideas. But in some societies, governments try to keep their people ignorant. Usually, this is so governments can keep people under control and hold on to their power. In trying to keep people from the realities of the world, these oppressive governments can end up damaging or even destroying their society.

It was a day I would never forget.We were all sitting in the fire hall and there was a fire call. And the call was on Montag’s street. He knew where we were heading. We jumped in the red fire truck and started down the road. The look on Montag's face gave it away that he knew where we were going. And he looked like he knew what he did. We pulled in his driveway, and he knew that he did something wrong. Mildred face was like she turned him in. We were going into the house and Mildred was standing there. She had turned him in for reading. I told him that he has been reading too much. He was learning way too much stuff from those books. Montag was going to burn the books, but he was gonna have mildred do it for him she said that he had to do

Ban books or burn them? Ray Bradbury wrote his famous novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953 fantasizing about a world in which books were banned, and when a book was found it was burnt and destroyed. Little did he know that his thought of books being banned could actually happen and that it would be one of his own. Today Fahrenheit 451 is being banned and challenged in schools all across America. How ironic that a book about books being banned is now being banned around the country. A prize winning book by a prize winning author is now being questioned as to whether it is a good book to teach in an English class. Though Fahrenheit 451 may contain controversial elements such as language, discussion of

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 create happiness? Bradbury shows the importance of self-reflection, happiness and the ability to think for oneself as well as isolation due to technology, and the importance of nature and animals. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the stories’ themes through characterization and symbols.

After taking Honors Written and Oral Communication freshman year I have changed as a communicator. I have grown in many areas as a writer and speaker; however, I have also have skills that need improvement. From the Fahrenheit 451 essay to the six-word memoir, my writing capabilities and experience has changed. I have sincerely grown in certain areas whereas I have also fell short in other areas.

The world of burning books, talking parlor walls, and speeding cars captivated the readers who read Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. Through the use of figurative language, Bradbury creates a complex, yet a dull-minded, society where literature and human philosophy are degenerating. Bradbury illustrates this society through the protagonist, Guy Montag, who develops and changes his mentality on his society throughout the novel after realizing the truth behind it. However, Bradbury does not only paint the truth about Montag’s society, but he also conveys a representation of our society through the media of Fahrenheit 451. The media of Fahrenheit 451 displays a rather disillusioned, ‘perfect’ image of how this society portrays itself to be even though it is the opposite.

“Are you happy?” That was the question that changed Montag’s life forever. The day Clarisse asked him this was a day that he would never forget. He will never forget it because this one, little question made him rethink his whole life. Everything he had ever thought to be true was wrong. It was the beginning of his new life, and he didn’t even know it yet. It’s amazing to think that this one question, the one that others would have just overlooked, this simple question could have changed someone’s life completely. But it did.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the author creates a picture of a society that resembles our present-day society in a variety of ways. Although a society in which government has total control over its citizens seems to be a little extreme, there are definitely clues that can be seen today that suggest that we are headed in the same direction. Some of the resemblances between the society in Fahrenheit 451 and our society today are the governments’ hypocrisy, the gullibility of the citizens who fully support the government, and the fact that books are becoming rather extinct due to advances in modern technology.

In Lorde’s keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, she discussed anger as a response to racism. She expressed that women should not let their fear of anger hinder them from excavating honesty, because when anger us translated into action in order to achieve their goals and guarantee their future, it becomes a liberating act. This was the main inspiration for the poem Niña wrote. I wanted to tap into my anger and express it, resisting the normative belief of a quiet, submissive Asian woman and anger being unlady-like in general. I wanted to show my anger at being objectified by a racist, patriarchal society and Lorde definitely helped me do that.

Poetry is the creative means in which emotion is expressed through the literary art of rhythm, rhyme and repetition. Over time, the distinctive style of poetry has been altered to create great diversity branching from the traditional poetic style of writing. Missouri born author, Naomi Shihab Nye, provides a great example of a unique style of writing. Nye is a poet, songwriter and novelist whose style incorporates everyday objects in her writing to create a spontaneous, yet thoughtful connection between these everyday items and the reader. In the most basic form, Nyes’ poem is about fame. She implies that it is essentially “these little things that we overlook – all these everyday, seemingly unimportant things – are really what deserve

Being an African American woman creates chaos in itself. When you are a woman, who happens to also be an autobiographer, a whirlpool of negativity surrounding your work appears. In the Cambridge Companion by Joanne M. Braxton, she analyzes how African American women autobiographers are often treated and how their work comes across. Her explanation of the stereotypes these women fought plays a part in how poets and autobiographers like, Audre Lorde, continue to create a narrative of the struggles of the Black woman. Often, these struggles women poets and autobiographers face counteract the roles of what these women should be in society. Especially in an American society, these women are often looked down upon for their poetry. The poems written

Audre Lorde has become one of my favorite poets, she is definitely the greatest poet of her time, while I cannot say that anyone person is the greatest poet of all time. Her poems express and cover several social and political issues, by which she reaches a lot of people. Poetry is not only about the message but also what lies beyond, the beyond is the audience, the people reading and relating to the poem. As a reader reads a well written poem, they become a part of the poem, by relating to the words in their own interpretations. Lorde’s work always presents memoirs, and brings up past relations of my own to thought, even if it is not directed at the poem’s subject, that’s the beauty of poetry and Audre’s poem’s.

Literature has been a powerful tool to express one’s emotions, thoughts and attitudes towards anything. Dating back to hundreds of years back, literature had always been associated to our culture , values and norms. Literature has not just been limited to refreshment or enjoyment. It has also played important roles in pointing out the flaws and weaknesses in our society, which otherwise we had ignored. In other words, literature has become a powerful tool to address the people. In today’s time we see many printing and visual media that have gained popularity among the people as the sources of information and entertainment. Nevertheless, the popularity of literature has not been less than it was earlier. Literature is powerful because it is

Literature is an imitation of societal values and is thus a reflection of the human experience of a time period. Written works emphasize the elements of culture, by means of characters, particular events, setting and theme, specific to the time period in which it was composed. Furthermore, literature mirrors the troubles or hardships of society and projects the core values that define said society. Thus, as culture has changed over time, literature has remained a critical facet in representing time periods of the past. Essentially, the culture of a time period is manifested through writing in the projection of society’s values, symbolism of the center of community and literature itself.