Fahrenheit 451 pp. 91-110

Give a very short (1-3 sentence) summary of the two main scenes in this section. The first scence was at home in the living room and the second scene was in the fire house with Beatty.

Scene 1: The Living Room. Millie's friends have come over for a visit, and they begin talking with each other. The things Montag hears disgusts him, and he gets angered. He begins to read from a poetry book, hoping to either show them the error of their ways, or scare them off.

Scene 2: Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty begins playing mind games with Montag, trying to lower his self esteem and hint that he knows about Montag's books. The alarm rings, and Beatty acts friendly with Montag, trying to lure him over to their side. The scene ends with the alarm calling them to Montag's own house.

Analyze the use of language in the reading by analzying figurative language or descriptive verbs and adjectives.

If you chose figurative language, do the following:

1) What are your favorite metaphors or other examples of figurative language in this section?
Quote the passage and explain why you think the choice of words was particulary effective. Also, what images does the figurative language invoke? What physical senses? Is the figurative word or words appropriate to the thing being compared? Why or why not?

I think the best example of figurative language was the first half of Montag's poem.

"The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's
shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world."

I thought that it was rather clever, being both a metaphor and personification at once. Although it's just the concept of the masses losing faith, something that has no physical mass, he still made it apply to both sight and sound. It was also rather clever, how he compared the receding of faith to the changing tides of the ocean.

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