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Originally posted by hoyoungz luv
Really? I did NOT pick up on any literary elements or allusions when I read it. I read it for my English class in the 7th grade and i remember hating it. I never really understood it. I guess I should go back and reread it. May I ask what the literary elements were though?
hmm, hah i dunno i read it in 8th grade and don't remember it that much. That was awhile ago but i remember it being all symbolic haha, yeah i'm not being much help but there actually is a lot of stuff in there and i really didn't have to analyze it to find it cuase it was obvious enough, hmm what were they? hehe.
Some stuff that comes to mind is like at the end where they mention the tree and thats actually something out of revelations but bradbury just intertwined it really well so as to make it discreet. That passage was significant cause it summarized the whole book, about the fruit of the tree of knowledge and stuff if i remember correctly. Not only that but the people who memorize the books, one of them memorized revelations and he was probably the one talking, i don't remember what made me realize it...maybe it was italics or something, but i recognized it. Also there's the whole idea of books being burned, symbolic nature of those, the fireman, the contradicting name of them, the elusive and inebriated (so to speak) society who succumbs to whatever the govt wants, why nobody cares about learning anyting from the books. I really liked that part at the end where they talked about being a sloth, ah i gotta read that again heh, you know where....Faber? is that his name? It might not be and probably isn't but, yeah he was talking about wanting to be a sloth for its laziness and such...i loved that part hah, i forgot exactly what he said about it.
I'm sure there's a lot more, thats just off the top of my head from like 5 years ago. 
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Last edited by PsychoSnowman on 06-07-2002 at 04:23 PM
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05-16-2002 02:36 PM
. I read that on my own though, and wasn't required to, maybe that has something to do with it ^^
i red tha dictionary
