The figurative language in these sentences is amazing. I can easily visualize a burning home and a huge burst of flames in the sky. Bradbury goes into so much detail to show this is somewhat of a major event one might not know the impact of until later in the novel. After all, why else would he go into so much depth about a house fire? (Figurative language and author's style)

Quote: "Mildred's hand had frozen behind the pillow. Her fingers were tracing the book's outline," (Bradbury 53)

Response: This is when Beatty is over, checking on Montag who's "sick". Mildred has now found the book Montag had taken, and Montag is just freaking out on the inside. I think this is a foreshadowing of what will happen, or what could happen, later on in the novel. Montag feels guilty, he feels like he's done something wrong, and he feels sooner or later, he's going to be found out. I feel the suspense hanging in the air, I feel the stress and anxiety as Montag feels it in the scene. I deeply worry for Montag and his fate later on in the novel, as I fear of what may happen when Beatty does eventually discover what he has done (for I am sure it will happen).

Montag's denial of the thought that he is not in love leads me to predict that Montag's relationship with his wife is all pretend. It shows how he is not truly in love, but rather displaying an act for the benefit of humanity. I also predict that Montag's relationship with his wife is soon to take an unexpected turn for the worst, or maybe even the best.

Figurative language:

"The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there..."(Bradbury 3).

Prior to the event stated in the quote the fireman had felt unwell about the sidewalk around a certain turn. When Bradbury states how the air seemed calming to the fireman, it made the fireman feel better about the surroundings he was in. Bradbury's use of words like "calm" makes the reader feel that the fireman has been pleased with the calm feeling the air brings to him.

The reader begins to predict the man will start to love this girl. The author in depth descriptions of the girl demonstrates how closely he watches her. Bradbury's descriptions make the reader begin to understand what the story will be.

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This happens after Montang comes home after talking to Clarisse. It's dark and he can’t see anything and he knocks over an object. This quote shows me that Bradbury likes to describe things in complex ways, even if that’s unnecessary and they can be described in one sentence. This is his writing style, though, and it's going to persist throughout the book which means there will be more segments like this that waste the reader's time by describing tiny events.

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"Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass polls, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first" (Bradbury 22)

This quote really puts an emphasis on how dystopian their world is, creating a feeling of everyday being a loop. The firefighters are so bored that they would bet on watching animals be killed by a machine. The inclusion of cats really upset me because they also talked about drowning them, and I think thats why Bradbury included it. In our world, people are upset at the idea of killing an animal like a cat, but their world is very different from ours- they do not blink at it. It makes me think that Montag will also realize how horrible the world he lives in is, and maybe do something to change it.

This is figurative language is used when Montag was spreading kerosene on a pile of books. To me, it shows how normalized the burning has become and how citizens are now used to it. It indicates how much the society has changed and how it has affected everyone invloved since the start of the burning. He seems to find peace within in the task now and wants to enjoy the flames. The books are not pigeons obviously, but it is being compared to the peaceful nature of watching birds and the beauty within it. Bradbury uses this figurtive language to help show how much the world has changed.

"...this great python spitting its vemonous kerosene upon the world..." (Bradbury 1)

This quote shows amazing figurative language on how the books were burned. I can imagine montag holding the fire gun and shooting its flames over all of the books. Bardbury uses good descriptive words to describe the fires. (figurative language)

This was one of the first sentences that really stood out to me because it so clearly described the burning house. Bradbury uses personification in this quote to illustrate the burning home for his readers. Bradbury clearly describes how the house suddenly burst into flames with the use of personification. This description seems meaningful, making me wonder the reason why he is setting this house on fire. It makes me wonder why he is so pleased to do this, and why does it seem so normal for him to do this?

There is Figurative language shown in the quote above by giving life to the books being burned. When the books were still sitting on the shelf, they had life but when the house went down with the fire, the books went along with it. What once had life, was dead and fell onto the porch and lawn.

After Montag's first meeting with Clarisse, she ends their conversation with asking him if he is happy. Montag finds the question ridiculous and gets offeneded that she would even think he was unhappy after only one encounter. But when Montag is completly alone in his home he continues to think of Clarisse and her burning question, it hits him that he is not genuinly happy. If Clarisse can strike such a sense of clarity in him after a single conversation, one can imagine the impact she will continue to have on Montag throughout the novel.

Even though the story has just started the author introduces a women and pictures her in amazing ways. He talks of her beauty and even the simplest thing about even up to how she is sitting down. As he describes her more and more I begin to predict that she is going to play a big role in the story due to the ways she is being described. Bradbury doesn't just describe her in simple ways he talks of her in ways that arent basic such as "hearing the motion of her hands as she walked". Leading me to belive that this women will have a major effect on the protaganist of the story.

The imagery in this sentence really shows what is going on and how devastating the burning buildings and the flames in the sky. Bradbury goes so deep in detail in this sentence I can clearly visualize what is going on.

This sentence demonstrates imagery by the author talking about what his helmet was numbered and also discussing how the fire "burned the evening sky yellow and black. Bradbury gives description on how "he flicked the igniter and the house jumped in a gorging fire." This quote Bradbury states really makes readers visualize what is going on in the novel.

The figurative language used in this scene develops an idea of how Montag perceives the girl, as well as clear and detailed imagery within the scene. The words that the author uses to describe this moment with the girl shows that Montag feels a strong connection with the girl, despite having just met her on his way home from the fire station. An example being as "miraculous bits of violet amber," which also adds onto the common fire-based descriptions used, meaning that there was some kind of "spark" between them.

The first sentence in the novel is "It was a pleasure to burn" (Bradbury 1). The placement implies that it is a truth; the most important information in the book. Just as the reader is told this bias from the very start, the main character Montag was probably told as well. When he begins to doubt his convictions, conflict ensues.

Montag's relationship with his wife was slowly falling apart, and it showed. He continues to tell himself and others that he is still in as much love with her as he has always been, but he knows deep down the relationship is declining. He continues to deny this fact, however, as he feels as though it is how he is supposed to be. (not finished)

"He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slide soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth... a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator..." (Bradbury 2).

Response: This is when Montag has just now left the fire station to go home. The author uses imagery to portray the environment of where Montag lives. The great use of senses such as "great puff of warm air" and "cream-tiled escalator" both helped to improve my visual of where he was. (Bradbury 2).

"The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to the sliding walk..." (Bradbury 3) This is describing the experience Montag had walking home after he had burned a house full of books. He sees his new neighbor who was moving in while she was walking around. The leaves blowing made her look like her was standing still. This shows figurative language and imagery because it is easy for the reader to imagine what Montag was looking at.

Symbolism and metaphors are often methods of conveying one's thoughts that may be a bit too complex to say with just words, as well as it making reading the text not as tiring and boring, as using a metaphor is much better than just saying it outright. Just as Bradbury says, "He wore his happiness like a mask...", which could symbolize how he's putting up a facade for whatever reason(Bradbury 9). How the girl specifically had stolen it means that perhaps there may be a bit more to the situation than it appears.

Bradbury founded his character of Clarisse, she came to him with the thought of knowing the world. Unlike Montag she was fully aware of the world with the relationship of nature around her while everyone else didn't care about the world outside of their screens.

"The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through" (Bradbury 3).

The change in the air could predict how Montag's life could change very soon, hinting that something different is happening. It could possibly be how he views his life or how something could influence that change.

Bradbury uses a simile to describe the force of the wind and leaves that seemingly 'carried her forward'. The diction gives a perfect visualization of the setting, and makes the reader further interested in the girl being described. Bradbury's detailed diction of the girl shows his developing interest in her.