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Passage 6

Ray Bradbury utilizes a somber tone by using hyperbolic diction. Guy Montag returns to his home late at night to find his wife Mildred laying on her bed unconscious. He is concerned by the sight of her lifeless body. “He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be thought as he stood shivering in the dark, and let his lips go on moving and moving” (Bradbury 11-12). Bradbury exaggerates by saying that “the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets.” The “stars had been pulverized” means that they have been reduced to fine particles or defeated utterly, which creates a dark scene because stars illuminate the sky and since they are absent, there’s no light. The lack of light demonstrates how there is “no light” or hope in the situation. A somber tone illustrates darkness and gloominess. The author depicts the tone by surrounding Montag in literal darkness. Since there is no hope, it shows how misery exists, which portrays the gloominess part of the somber tone. The presence of misery proves how it’s a dystopian society, which is what Bradbury is trying to illustrate. The exaggeration of the darkness and spine-chilling situation for Montag exhibits the somber essence of the society.

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Passage #6

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury insinuates a despairing tone by employing cacophonous diction. Guy Montag, firefighter, comes home to find his wife, Mildred, overdosed on sleeping pills. His frantic state of mind takes over, as he loses his ability to comprehend the situation. “He opened his own mouth and let their shriek come down and out between his bared teeth . . . He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be thought as he stood shivering in the dark” (Bradbury 11). Montag’s “shriek” signifies a loud, high pitched and desperate sound of the war going on within him from the situation that he has just walked into. Shrieks are normally let out in terror and pain, which describes Montag's state of mind. The cacophonous diction sounds very harsh and demonstrates the lack of control on will have. The jargon is a large contrast from euphonious diction used in earlier passages, thus separating the passage from the others and showing readers that the situation has suddenly become despairing. Bradbury believes that the Montag’s situation would become a reality of many individuals in the real world. His lack of hope proves his novel to be a foreboding. The cacophonous diction used reinforces the message portrayed throughout the book: when ignorance and control is widespread, independence ceases to exist.

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Passage #5

Bradbury implores a somber tone by insinuating connotative diction. After a conversation with Clarisse, Guy Montag enters his house and sees that all the lights are off. Without turning on the lights he observes the room and emphasizes  the state of his wife and the mindless tasks she's occupied in. "...uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable" (Bradbury Passage 5).  By describing his wife as "uncovered and cold" this connotation insists that Montag sees his wife as lifeless and unfulfilling. He also portrays that she looks "like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb" insinuating that her body may be there, but emotionally she's detached from Guy. By outlining that "her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable" this implies that she is completely under bureaucratic/technological control of the state, ignorantly following the beliefs imposed upon her.  Bradbury inserted this passage into the novel because he wanted to exaggerate the faults of their society.

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Passage 2

Bradbury incorporates a tranquil tone by using euphonious diction. The main character, Montag, is walking home from work when he starts to feel as if he's being watched. When he turns the corner, he sees Clarisse. However, instead of feeling surprised he is calm. The novel says that “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.” The word “moonlit” adds to the setting by creating a peaceful scene. Moonlit implies an undisturbed night, and it also implies that there are no clouds which can be associated with tranquility. Bradbury uses the calm setting to reveal the tone. By describing Clarisse’s walking as a smooth, sort of gliding walk, Bradbury adds to the tone. Clarisse has nowhere to be, and is just freely wandering about. This creates the tone because of how calm and peaceful she seems. Then by saying Clarisse is moving from the motion of the wind, it adds to the tone because it shows effortlessness and peacefulness. Through using euphonious diction, Bradbury reveals the theme that tranquility can be found even in the most chaotic situations and environments. The society described in the novel is chaotic, yet the characters were still able to find this moment of peace. The euphonious fiction created the peacefulness of the scene, which is how the diction helped reveal the theme. Various forms of diction can be used to demonstrate different themes within the novel. By using euphonious diction, Bradbury creates the tranquil tone.

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Passage #8
Bradbury portrays a dehumanizing tone by using figurative diction. When Montag discovers that Mildred swallowed a bottle of pills, he calls for emergency services. When help arrives they filter new blood into Mildred. “‘Got to clean em out both ways,’ said the operator, standing over the silent woman.” An operator is a person who fixes equipment or machine. Bradbury uses the metaphor of an operator as a medic to dehumanize the patient by suggesting that she is a machine. This highlights the dystopian element of humans living in a dehumanized state to convey the idea of technological control. The machine the operators bring represents technological control because it has the ability to alter the human mind and their sense of reality. The machines ability to to alter their state of mind and the operators lack of emotion illustrates the dehumanized lifestyle of a dystopian society.  Bradbury uses figurative diction to exemplify a degrading tone and show characteristics of a dystopian society.

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Passage #5
Bradbury establishes a bleak tone through concrete diction. Montag is in the bedroom examining his wife when he sees her lying still listening to the electronic ocean of sound. Bradbury describes “His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable” (Bradbury 10). Her “uncovered” body describes the lack of warmth felt within the room when he walks in. Bradbury includes the word “tomb” to represent death, darkness, and the cold body. The word “steel” has a negative connotation due to image of the stiff, cold metal he compares her body to. This passage contributes to the depressing mood of the overall novel because it is illuminating the darkness Montag feels in his day to day life. The depressing mood contributes to the theme that without knowledge, there is no happiness. Montag shows no self expression in his values because he has no way of seeking his own truths through books. Throughout part one of the novel,  Bradbury develops a bleak tone and depressing mood through concrete diction in order to establish the theme that knowledge is needed to achieve happiness and content in one’s life.

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Passage #3

Ray Bradbury has a nostalgic tone by implicating euphonious diction. While thinking of Clarisse, Guy remembers a time with his mother alone in a power outage. He describes the memory using the words, "But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle." The words, comfortable, and gently imply a calming tone, while the flattering light shows a sort of nostalgic sense, and the candle makes us think of times before electricity, and a quiet space. This is differentiating from what the society is like in the book, and in huge contrast of living, this shows a bit of rebellion in Guy, and how he thought of this time as happier than now. Conclusively, this use of euphonious diction, gives the reader a calming a nostalgic tone in the book.

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