As Mrs. Phelps slammed the door of Mildred's house, she stalked off towards her own home.
Mrs. Bowles, "I can't believe he would want to hurt someone like that, this fireman is evil." Mrs. Bowles, incredibly angry, left immediately.
Mrs. Phelps, with wet tears still on her face, thought back to the poem. It seemed to be sad, and miserable. As she got back to her house, Mrs. Phelps rushed to her phone, and called the firemen. A gruff voice picked up, and she stated "Fireman Montag has possession of a multitude of books, and should be arrested immediately."
She sat down to her couch, and thought back to her husband. Pete definitely was coming back soon, they always end war very quickly. Drifting, her thoughts touched on Mrs. Bowles' children, what a nuisance, and what a pain to deal with.
As she began watching the wall screen, her mind wasn't on the continuous fast pace shows. Mrs. Phelps could only think of the poem, [The world] To lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light... Mrs. Phelps thought in horror, could that be our world, could it really be how we function. Was I the ignorant one in that room? What are we being ignorant about? As these questions churned around her head, she only could sit in fear of her own society.
Suddenly, her phone started ringing, an automatic voice call. Wow, what could this be? As she picked up, she struggled to remain aware of her position and the society as a monotone voice told her husband had died in the war.
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Fahrenheit 451 analysis
Each character of Fahrenheit 451 seems to have a special meaning about the intentions of the author, Ray Bradbury.
Mildred- Bradbury describes Montag's encounter's with her as very far off and awkward. Mildred is portrayed as a normal character of this society, with problems with memory, insatiable greed, and totally half-empty in this world. "And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all." (pg. 39)
Clarisse - She is a core character in relecting on this society along with Montag, and she provokes his thought. Bradbury describes her as a mirror, thought-provoking all over the society. Even as she leaves the book, she leaves an impact on Montag that we can find out how it affects him.
At the end of part 2: The sieve and the sand, the book almost reaches a climactic point. The earpiece and technology that Faber uses essentially takes Montag over and an argument between Faber and Beatty begins. I enjoyed how the author uses Beatty and his knowledge of Literature to strike down Literature.
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