In the novel By Ray Bradbury they talk a lot about fire and at the beginning of the book, Montag loved burning, but toward the end his eyes get open and no longer likes burning. They burn books and houses in many scenes. There is also a motif in the book of fire and i think it represents knowledge, ideas and starting over or having a clean start.
Body #1 Burning books gets rid of people's thoughts and ideas, which also helps so people don’t think they think that life can be any better the society can change. And in a normal society firemen put fires out instead of starting them and there isn't a bunch of rules or laws that are total nonsense. There was a quote at the beginning of the book the said “It was a pleasure to burn”, and Montag said that kerosine was his perfume and he liked and then throughout the book his eyes began to pay more attention to the things happening around him and he no longer liked burning books.
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And that many people don't like to reflect on their past because everyone has regrets or thinks something would have turned out better if they would have did something else or maybe tried harder. Toward the end of the book Granger tells Montag “The look of you is enough, you haven't seen yourself in a mirror lately”, means that he hasn't noticed some important things that have happened and his stupid mistakes he made and that he needs to take a step back and think of how we will do stuff differently in the future. This book shows a lot on how people do not reflect on themselves because they are both dead and alive and they do not completely think things
Body #1 Burning books gets rid of people's thoughts and ideas, which also helps so people don’t think they think that life can be any better the society can change. And in a normal society firemen put fires out instead of starting them and there isn't a bunch of rules or laws that are total nonsense. There was a quote at the beginning of the book the said “It was a pleasure to burn”, and Montag said that kerosine was his perfume and he liked and then throughout the book his eyes began to pay more attention to the things happening around him and he no longer liked burning books.
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And that many people don't like to reflect on their past because everyone has regrets or thinks something would have turned out better if they would have did something else or maybe tried harder. Toward the end of the book Granger tells Montag “The look of you is enough, you haven't seen yourself in a mirror lately”, means that he hasn't noticed some important things that have happened and his stupid mistakes he made and that he needs to take a step back and think of how we will do stuff differently in the future. This book shows a lot on how people do not reflect on themselves because they are both dead and alive and they do not completely think things