F451 Essay Option #1

Ray Bradbury gives a realistic tone to the narrative of his book. It's almost as if it is an apocalyptic world where Montag is living. Beatty, the villain who criticizes books, Faber the mentor, and guider to a new hope to an allie, Clarisse the person who is the outsider, but does all her thinking on her own, and Mildred the lost wife who has no thought to think or do things. All those characters give a realistic tone to the book as if this were a true reality.  Clarisse is the person who represents how much a person cares and how much humans are such a great value. She gets killed off in the book not because to show how society would function, but how the values she stood for have been killed in society. As for Beatty, Ray Bradbury gives him a tone of being a powerful force. He makes some decent points about the books; literature is very contradicting, forces us the answer questions we never wanted to ask, and It will pull out feet from the rug. Beatty is not willing think and question, the books don't tell the secrets to the universe to Beatty. Beatty is kind of a paradox. He knows very well the texts of books, and recites texts to the old woman by saying "You've been locked up in here for years with a regular dammed tower of Babel.You think you can walk on water with your books.And, Beatty even recalls a text from the Greek myth of Icraus, which a common book to read. He was also a book reader once. He gives that clue once he gives his speech to Montag in part one. Bradbury gives each character his or her own point of view of society. Giving the differences of how Ray Bradbury felt about books, he obviously loves books and in his characters he illustrated showith his emotions towards those books. With the characters given, he also gives the "bad" sides of books from the character Beatty.