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Do you hate littering? Don’t you hate when you go to a nice beach and you see trash all over? Dave Barry’s anecdote “A Couple Of Really Nice Guys” is a high level of comedy that uses a personal issue and exaggerates it to reveal universal truth about littering. The author uses comic characters/caricatures and hyperboles. First, the author used a lot of hyperboles. For example, on page 326, “ I HATE littering. I hate it when you go to a park or the beach and the day is suddenly destroyed by the arrival

There has been a massive discussion about a school district, Biloxi School District, who has been discussing to pull a book out of the 8th-grade curriculum. The book, To Kill A Mockingbird, has received many complaints, about how much censorship and mature language is inside the book. Another case of a book pulling happened in the Drake School Board. Drake pulled a book from their high school curriculum and burned every single one of the books right inside the school. The author of the book, Kurt

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury about a dystopian future in which books are banned. Today, this book seems less like a dystopian future and more like a warning from the past. In the world of Fahrenheit 451, people breeze through their fleeting lives, blocking out feelings of loneliness and never taking the time to really think. Although books are banned, Bradbury does seem to have captured the essence of some of the problems that plague modern day society, such as the waning popularity

The narrator in the story proves he is unreliable by swooning or passing out throughout the story. In the story the narrator says “The truth at length flashed upon me. In my first attempt at exploration I had counted fifty-two paces, up to the period when I fell; I must have been with within a pace or two of the fragments of serge; in fact, I had nearly performed the circuit of the vault. I then slept, and upon awakening, I must have returned upon my steps- thus supposing the circuit nearly double

“The Destructors” “The Destructors” is a short fiction story by Graham Greene. The setting of the story is in London 9 years after the conclusion of World War II. The short story has to do with a group of teenage boys who call themselves the Wormsley Common gang, named after the area they live in. As a result of World War II, the area that the teenagers live in has been destroyed and many properties lay in ruins with the exception of one house. This is the house of Mr. Thomas who is known as “Old

Fahrenheit 451 is full of obvious social commentary. All kinds of examples can be found in every chapter in the book. The book has no lack of stylistic elements either. The book is about a dystopian world where books have been made illegal to own, but some people have realized the good uses of books. The author uses this book to say a few things of his own, but also points out that books help us as humans see things that are wrong with society. Ray Bradbury uses stylistic elements such as satire

The text starts off with rather stirring imagery, the imagery of books being set ablaze by the protagonist, Guy Montag. As a member of a modern society where there is always a plethora of books available and therefore, a plethora of knowledge at one's fingertips it bothersome that one would want of rid the world of that commodity. Bradbury starts off his work by painting the vivid beginnings of a tale of a dystopian culture. The apparentness of the dystopia becomes even more prevalent as the novel

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the idea of technology to illustrate how there are three types of it, that represent how Montag as a person has changed. Theres the good kind of technology, and the bad kind of technology, and the neutral. The good kind of technology would be a computer or a printer, it does not destroy, but light up. This idea side represents how Montag has a good side that does not want to destroy, but light up. In the passage when Montag is with his mother, they lit the last

Electrical Society Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is a novel that warns about a lot of different things but one thing to it warns so strongly about is the over- reliance on technology. That is one thing that I believe our society is currently struggling with. Not matter what it is in some way or form technology is involved. I mean how often do you see someone read a newspaper to see what is

Montag does not know if he should worry when all the firemen do is protect happiness. I think that he should worry, firstly because the firemen burn books and say that they are evil without having read them and seen what is in them. Secondly, they burn peoples homes down and the people become homeless. Thirdly, the firemen are told the books are evil because they tell lies, even though that is not true the firemen never find this out because they are not allowed to read the books. That’s why I think