Some symbols are very powerful and can be used in books to represent many things. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book about censorship that uses fire as a symbol. Even the name of the book is meaningful because that is the temperature at which book paper burns. In Fahrenheit 451, fire has multiple […]
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“Without Ray Bradbury, there would be no Stephen King,” Stephen King wrote. “[Bradbury] created moods with few words,” wrote Isaac Asimov. Journalist, teacher, and writer Sam Weller tackles the life of one of the great writers of the fantastic in The Bradbury Chronicles. Bradbury was an incredibly talented writer who never went to college, did […]
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According to Isaac Asimov, “Science fiction is that literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific progress on people.” I strongly agree with Asimov, which I believe is an important point. The “big idea” of science fiction writing is not only to depict the scientific future, but to depict the effects that such technology […]
Erich Fromm once said, “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots”. This quote is very appropriate for the novel, Fahrenheit 451, because it illustrates futuristic advances as hazardous to society. If in time technology goes so overboard that our civilization and […]