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Examples Of Foreshadowing In Fahrenheit 451

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“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it is going to kill us”. This quote goes directly with the fact that in Fahrenheit 451 , it is a different time in the world where firefighters don’t stop fires but they start them and the people mindlessly follow the government. The people want entertainment so badly that even when it is slowly killing them. Bradbury uses foreshadowing to show people need to step up and lead, predict future events, and show that people can change. Usually people want to be leaders but often just become followers of what other people do. This did not happen in Fahrenheit 451, in fact it was the exact opposite. People just naturally were followers without questioning who they were following. Mildred was a perfect example of someone who just followed the lifestyle the …show more content…

He did this at the beginning of the book when Montag first met Clarisse. Clarisse was a mysterious teenager who was overly engaged in other people's activities. Well at least according to Montag she was.There was one phrase clarisse said to Montag that really stuck with him through the book and helped me figure out what might happen towards the end of the book. Clarisse asked Montag a simple question, was he happy. Montag was caught off guard by this question and honestly he wrestled with the fact if he really was happy all throughout the book and then one day he got tired and upset of the way he was feeling and was going to put a stop to it. Montag said, “ And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I'm not happy, I'm not happy (62). “ I'm going to do something”and“ I don't know what it is yet, but i'm going to do something big” (62). This demonstrated how unhappy and empty Montag felt when he followed everything the government said without question and how it gave clues to what he was going to about it later in the

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