Summary Of 'Through The Horror Comes A Hero'

A 30 year-old firefighter, Guy Montag, burns houses instead of saving them. “ He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-cooked, in the mirror” (2). Montag is a rebellious character that thinks highly of himself. His neighbor is named Clarisse McClellan. She is a charming and intelligent girl. “ Bet I know something you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning” (7). Clarisse absorbs nature and knows more than Montag. Mildred is Montag's wife. She is addicted to pills and she’s stuck in media. “ Two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran… her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain… her not caring whether it came or went” (11). When she overdoses it seems that she is careless, thoughtless, and completely empty minded. Mildred isn't unhappy with her life because she attempts things that cause

Guy Montag- (protagonist; determined) Guy Montag, an unhappy, conceited man, has been a fireman for ten years. He meets Clarisse and finds that her perspective on life and the world is imaginative. He then suddenly realizes the emptiness of his life and starts to find a way for meaning in the books that was supposed to be burnt.

He eventually finds himself face to face with the fire captain and antagonist, Beatty. Montag has no other choice but to kill him. After, he joins a resistance group who is trying to preserve the greatest works of literature to save

Mildred, even though was someone that lacked excitement and interesting things, still was one of the biggest and most influential characters in the entire novel. Her purpose was not to only show the reader how a normal citizen would act and think, but to make them understand how someone could do such tremendous things after being brainwashed and believed to be someone that had no potential or reason in life.

Before we had time even to move, nothing remained of the three-master save some pieces of wreckage floating on the surface and an army of rats covering the rocks left bare by the receding tide. Thousands of heads rose, felt the wind, and we were scented, seen! To them we were fresh meat, after possible weeks of starving. We were shaken from what we saw.

Clarisse makes Guy Montag open his mind up to new things. Clarisse asks Guy Montag a question that is very simple yet very deep. The question she asks him is simply “Are you happy?” This question inspires Guy to think about his life and how he can change it. Once Montag gets home he finds his wife Mildred looking lifeless, his wife had tried to commit suicide. It made him think more about Clarisse’s question of “Are you happy?” The next morning when Montag and Mildred had awoke, Mildred did not remember her attempted suicide. His wife’s attempted suicide made him think more about his life and the events of his life so far. Montag tries to understand why Clarisse questions the ways of their society and acts the way she does. Montag does not understand why Clarisse asks herself why. Montag begins to question the society he lives in because of Clarisse’s question. Montag ask a coworker about what firemen use to do in their job in the past. His fireman coworkers tell him to remember the rule book and that they were given the job they do now for a reason. The firehouse gets a call to go burn down another house that contains books, it is Mrs. Black’s house. When they arrive the light of the fire had already started from the burning of her house and books. Mrs. Black decided to stay in her house with her burning books and die. Montag wonders why

In comparative contrast, we see Mildred’s happiness by her enjoyment in playing the role of a perfect housewife. She tries to do everything the media portrays her as. The things she does the most are listening to her seashell radios, watching the parlor walls, thinking about nothing, and talking about nothing. Although Mildred and Clarisse can’t be more different, as Mildred wants nothing more than to fit in, and Clarisse only wants to be herself, they are alike, as both characters are committed to not

However, Mildred does not completely free herself of all familial responsibilities as she is still held captive through her obsession with her daughter Veda. As with many housewives, her sense of self-identity is drawn from her role as a mother and she caters to the desires of her daughter to the point that they are almost self-destructive. It is Veda’s extravagant tastes that drive her mother to work hard and draws resources away from her business ultimately resulting in its collapse. Moreover, Mildred must deal with the lack of gratitude and outright contempt that she receives from her own daughter for working in a “blue collar” job.

Censorship is the assassination of ideas. It causes people to be ignorant which makes them not pay any attention to the world around them. Many people see what is happening right in front of them but choose to not direct their attention, not knowing if something terrible is going on. Censorship conceals all the things that would make people have their own voice. It prevents all of the ideas that are made from people to be heard.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Mildred and Beatty are conformists. Mildred always tends to want the newest trends and do what everyone else is doing. She even betrays her husband because he goes against society. Beatty is an old time conformist, and has always believe that books need to be burned. He will lie and do anything he can to make anyone want to burn books.

Montage struggles with himself to abide with his government. Even though Guy is a fireman who burns books, he has a mental desire to save them from being burned. Montag wants to be an intellectual person who will discover and uncover realities of his society. Although, he fears being discovered and getting killed for his mistakes. Montag fears moving forward and feels stuck to the ground “

Mildred and Captain Beatty are among those who conform and force conformity upon others. Mildred is one person who suppresses her unhappiness in constant media. She always has the “seashell ear-thimbles” in her ears and spends her days entranced in the play on her three-walled house television (16). By doing this, she is conforming to the society around her. She even goes as far as to ask Montag when they can “get the fourth wall torn out and the fourth wall-TV put in” (18). Mildred is so engrossed in media she does not even realize it is poisoning her mind. All of this propaganda causes her to want to “seize a book and run toward a kitchen incinerator,” because that is what she is taught (63). She is taught to destroy books because they contain only lies. In doing so, Mildred accepts the fact she will never be an individual and only a

Clarisse has a real family that talks to each other. Mildred thinks of the TV characters in the parlor room as her family.

A possible theme for Oedipus the King by Sophocles is that one’s blindness can hide the inevitability that is his destiny. Oedipus is in this situation. He struggles to escape his fate: killing his father and marrying his mother and believes he is successful. Sophocles believes that the gpds control one’s destiny and the inevitability that a person will do what is destined despite there hero’s intentions.Oedipus represent the standards of a true tragic hero: he is well known, basically good, his punishment is out of proportion compared to his crime, the audience at some point feels sorrow and pity for him, and Oedipus has a tragic flaw. During the whole story Oedipus thinks that he may be able to change his fate a live life how he wants but he falls to that which is his destiny.For these reason Oedipus is truly an example of a tragic hero and is unable to avoid his tragic fate.

Mildred Pierce is a woman that's tied down by the social norms of the 30s where women have to be attached to a man in order to be anything or have anything. Women at the time don't really have a chance in the workplace. They were expected to be housewives and attended their husbands wants and needs and take care of the family while the men did all the work and provided for the family. It was a rare occurrence to see a woman working because that meant she was either single, divorced, widowed, or were abandoned by their husband. Mildred was a married woman that had an unemployed cheating husband. Whom she kicked out and was left alone to support her two children on her own. As the story progresses, we see the approaches that Mildred takes in order to find a way to either get money or make herself financially stable. As advised by her neighbor Mildred first tries to find a suitable suitor that may help her become financially stable. During that time if women couldn't find a job there first option was to find a husband and remarry in order to help them be financially stable.