Summary Of The Burn Journals By Brent Runyon

saying to her while she was in a coma. She said that she hated him because he made a promise that made her choose between him over her family. He starts yelling at himself on the bridge as she walks off. He tries to accept everything and walks off, but then a little later she comes running to him crying and he asks her how she knew. The both of them end up going back to her place to sleep and to talk about

He was so remorseful he repeatedly apologized to the ones he had hurt saying “I know some of you won’t believe me, but I am truly sorry for what I have done. I wish that could undo what happened back then and bring back your loved ones but I can’t.” Jon began to sob as he addressed Mitzis mother, “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I wish I could bring her back to you. And Ron …. I took so much from you. I’m sorry. I know you probably don’t want my love, but you have it.”

Later in the story it mentioned that a letter was found in his house that said i’m sorry.

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” is a famous quote said by Heinrich Heine, which relates to the concept of book burning, seen in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury uses his unique literary style to write the novel Fahrenheit 451; where he brings his readers to a future American Society which consists of censorship, book burning, and completely oblivious families. The novel’s protagonist, Guy Montag, is one of the many firemen who takes pride in starting fires rather than putting them out, until he encounters a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan. As the novel progresses, the reader is able to notice what Clarisse’s values are in the novel, how her innocence and

In a society preserved by destruction, fire was thought to be the answer. Guy Montag, one of many firemen, participated in this so called “preservation”. Books were considered abominations. Reading provoked thought, and thought led to reality and unhappiness. The solution was to burn everything. Burn the books, burn the houses, burn the foundations of life! Guy went along with this, led his boring life, took the boring walks to and from his work, and afterwards came home to his boring wife Mildred. She, like many others, was consumed by her television “families”. All was thought to be well until one day he stumbled across Clarisse, a curious girl in his incurious world. She awakened his mind and senses. Changed by her, he works to preserve

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s thousands of years later, and there’s not a single book in sight. If you hide a book, you’ll be arrested, and your books will be burned. Guy Montag is a fireman, and his job to burn the books. However, he begins to question the system, after working this job for years.

Berry recognizes this in their trip together to South Africa: “I know this whole trip is metaphor city—everyone everywhere trying to forgive each other and get on with it: South Africans, us about Laura, Dad and me. I get it, I just don’t get how” (82). And that is always the hard part isn’t it, the how? The complications are bountiful when it involves Berry and her dad’s relationship, and contrary to initial thought it did not start with Laura’s death. It began in Berry’s childhood: First, he favored Laura over Berry (34). After, he divorced her mother and left Berry to go be with Laura, and finally, when Laura died, he appeared and practically took over her life (16). Unknowingly, she was deeply broken from this. When she voiced her opinion to her dad about catching the murderers who killed Laura and forcing them to say sorry, she says, “’People have to be sorry for hurting other people. They have to be!’” (73). Only, she did not realize she was not really talking about the killers; she was talking about her dad. “Be sorry. You be sorry. I want that more than anything, and I want him [her father] to give it to me. You be sorry, Dad” (73). She blames him for the abyss of emptiness and despair within her. It is not until she realizes that he is just as broken as her that she is able to forgive him. Up until that point at Laura’s memorial service, Berry had always seen her father as the cold, hard, business man. Yet, “I look at Dad and tears are streaming down his face, he is crying away and not even brushing them off” (155). Shocked, she realized that she and her father were so bearably alike. Both tried to bury their grief inside of them and put on this fake mask to conceal it. In the end, the only possible way to reach their destination of healing was to grieve together. To find and to express this connection they had to stop hiding their grief and share it, not

“There are two ways to spread light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it” Edith Wharton. In Fahrenheit 451, the American author Ray Bradbury shows Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books, is torn into two complete opposite characters, and he is internally conflicted between burning books and protecting them. Bradbury shows how Montag transforms throughout the story to go from darkness and sadness to find light in his life. Bradbury uses multiple different literary devices like description, characterization and symbolism.

Bradbury first depicted fire as a hurtful force through Montag, a fireman, who burn books. With the converted mentality of his culture, “it was [Montag’s] pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (3). Montag’s culture sees burning as an enjoyment;

Initially, Montag, a fireman who burns literature for a living, found books as “a pleasure to burn,” (Bradbury

Ashes realised that her father loved her all this time when she explains that “Dad gave me roses or sang a song he’d written for me. Or maybe moved two buses away” (Susan Beth Pfeffer: Page 1). Ashes found out that this whole time the reason he called her Ashes was that he loved her so much that he would give her a nickname. When Ashes Realised “mom might never be caught without batteries or tissues, but she just called me Ashleigh- a name she doesn’t even like- and never promised me anything” (Susan Beth Pfeffer: Page 1). Since Ashes mom just called her by a name she didn’t even like Ashes seemed to favor her father more than her mother. Loving a relative more than the others is hard but when Ashes stated “That winter it felt like every time I saw him my father, the sun cast off just a little more warmth than it had the day before” (Susan Beth Pfeffer: Page 1) it seemed like she loved her father more than anything in the world. No matter how she said it she will love her father as she doesn’t feel loved by her mother, her dad did multiple things for her to show he loved her, and she compares him to the warmth of the sun on a winter

 He continued to speak, "But since that time, I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fräulein, will you forgive me?" he thrust his hand out further. Mrs. Boom says it seemed like hours standing there, wrestling with trying to forgive him. He was responsible for his sisters death, after all, and she was expected to forgive him just becuase he

Sitting at the kitchen table, watching on as my siblings cried and my parents smiled apologetically, I couldn’t help but wonder why they’d done it. Why they’d gone so much farther than anyone else only to end up here, apologizing for the entire act. Reflecting back, I don’t think I realized how much we benefitted from the charade.

I think the author Brad Watson wrote this book to give an idea of what is like to be in a wild fire and work together as a team and get through it. Together they have challenges and choices to make and t chose wisely. The main character in this book is David.

Burn this book by Toni Morrison is a collection of essays by different writers. The collection of essays in this book addresses the power and meaning of literature. Each writer has its unique way of writing.