They love to burn books. Why? Again, in this society, everyone hates books. The people feel like they do not need them and nobody will ever use them so they should all be destroyed. Bradbury was like many other “thinkers” of the 1950’s.
A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth as an anti-war poem The poem, A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 is penned down in the form of an entry in a journal by a doctor for keeping records. The entry gave the readers a vivid picture of how the people were taken aback when atomic bombs were dropped on their city of Hiroshima in 1945 during the Second World War. The poem revolves around the theme of war and the cause of mass destruction which completely disrupts the normal life and economy of the countries involved. The poem begins on a calm note and ends on a horrific tale of blood and destruction. Vikram Seth has depicted the gruesome reality of first-ever nuclear explosion that was dropped on the city of Hiroshima by the US.
Montag grows increasingly dissatisfied with his life and starts to wonder if perhaps books aren’t so bad. He relies on an old ex-professor named Faber that agrees to work with Montag against the government. Faber says at one point, “Those who don’t build, burn.” What Faber is saying is similar to an old saying- "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." This basically means that people who aren't willing to help or contribute to a group or a society are the ones more likely to make it worse or bring it down, which is what the whole society is doing, for instance the many superficial relationships in the novel, and other real life examples. The novel has numerous examples of superficial relationships, which goes along with what Faber said.
“Children mourned as they watched their relatives and neighbors lined up into thee gas chambers, and watching the corpses pile up into a fire fueled by their own fat.” This is the daily life of the prisoners in the death camps during the Holocaust from 1933 – 1945. For the first time in history Jews were singled out for total annihilation. The Nazis used death camps to torture and kill Jews during the Holocaust. Jews suffered greatly in death camps by gas chambers, starvation, and hard labor. Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps.
War becomes what they live and breath and cannot comprehend with other jobs that do not relate to war and the horrifying killing that they were trained to do. Paul was destroyed
In the end I believe it turned into a complete anti-military novel as Caputo tried to understand the purpose of the war. The inevitable answer was that America had no reason to be in Vietnam and only put their people at harm as the government ordered them to stay. Before entering the war, the country truly did not understand what war meant. “So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own” (81). Caputo reveals his true feelings throughout the story.
This word holds a lot of meaning. It shows us the hatred that the firemen possessed for the books, and the way they used to crumble the books into pieces and then ignite them to fire. The other word the author used to describe the firemen while burning the books was rollick. Rollick tells us that how rowdy the firemen used to get and they used to create a rollick in the
Today we regret the actions that we made in war and so do other countries involved. Most of the time it was all the signs and messages before they had even left. Terrible pictures of propaganda depicting life if the enemy won making everyman feel it would be there fault if they didn’t help. Posters forcing them to join and even more posters dehumanizing the enemy. This happened on both sides and led to an unrelenting hate to each other.
All the possessions the victim and their family owned were confiscated. Those who failed in a suicide attempts were arrested, publicly shamed, and often sentenced to death (Crouch). This social fear and disdain for suicide lasted until the 17th and 18th centuries, when suicide began appearing in many of Shakespeare's works. Many of the playwright's most famous works contained deaths occurring at the character's own hand. Shakespeare penetrated society's stigma of suicide, demonstrating that the
Since there is no mention of key factors to point at Sir Lanka, readers are to take the novel as a commentary about several places that experienced post-colonial trauma. Western readers who never experienced trauma on the level of Sir Lanka – readers will see that trauma is as definable as the disappearances of people during civil wars. Ondaatjee uses his novel to send a message: trauma is incapable of being accurately described and people can only attempt to understand trauma. Yet, readers will never quite understand the mental strain on a person unless the person has dealt with something traumatic themselves. Ondaatjee uses Anil to start off the narration of Anil's Ghost, using her as the equivalency to a Western reader.