Reflection On Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel, by Ray Bradbury, where individuality and knowledge is frowned upon, and books are illegal. Although, the protagonists, Montag, starts to question why these things are considered horrific in their despotic society. On Montag’s journey, he becomes close to several people who assist him in pondering the true reason books are banned and how it leads to society's low standards of knowledge. Readers can use the author’s tone to infer his purpose. By analyzing his diction, the purpose can be seen, and related back to our society today.
Throughout the novel,negative diction is used to show censorship of books and how it is an concept. Bradbury expresses his urge to readers that books are vital for knowledge using a negative tone towards the banning of books. In the novel while Captain Beatty is explaining to Montag what happened to books, word choice of negative words are utilized to show anger towards eliminating books, “Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, …show more content…

They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless,”(Bradbury 83). The diction of negative words such as: hated, feared, and expressionless, assemble the negative tone Bradbury repeatedly shows against the books no longer being accepted by society. The use of negative tone when the topic of banned books appears in the book, reveals Bradbury’s purpose of making sure books are not forgotten, but treasured. The author is reminding us that not everyone is ever going to be pleased at once, therefore, books should not be neglected because of laziness and people being offended by

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