Symbols, Motifs and Themes, The Sieve and The Sand 

Symbol;Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial.

Motifs: A recurring image, word, phrase, or action that tend to create unity within a literary work.

Themes: The main idea or message of a literary work.

The big 5: 1. Audience / purpose - Whom does the text target? What does the author wish to achieve through the text?

     2. Content / theme - What is literally ‘happening’ in the text? What is it about? What are the main ideas of the text?

     3. Tone / mood - How does the text make you and/or the target audience feel? Describe the atmosphere of the text.

     4. Stylistic devices - How does the author use language to convey a sentiment or message? What kinds of linguistic tools does he/she employ?

     5. Structure - How is the text organized, literally (i.e. layout/formatting)? What kinds of structural elements of a particular text type do you see?

Symbol 

the sieve and the sand is the title of the second part of Fahrenheit 451, it shows the memories of Montag's childhood since he was trying to fill a sieve with sand on the beach to get a dime from a mischievous cousin and crying at the futility of the task. In this image you can see a person with a sieve in his hands and inside of it there is a little bit of sand. This picture can be dedicated to the people who likes to play with sand or that need soft sand for something since the sieve can be used for that. The colors of the picture represents that is in a different period of time, many years ago. the hands that are taking the sieve seems to be of a child so for me, it represents that the little boy is playing with it. This child is Montag many years ago. it seems to be in a dark place where the sunlight gets in from a little hole.

 

This picture represents this book because it shows many books or letters that are burning with fire so you can imagine this as lack of knowledge. In this picture there are many papers that are burning, those pictures seem to have many information written on it which is going to be lost. This happens inside a house, the papers seem old so maybe it was of old books. the fire is very lit.

This picture represents the propaganda of the firemen so that people enjoy what they do as work. In this image you can see a man carrying many books and something written on it trying to focus other people attention. This guy looks like a soldier, with soldier cloth and a gun so that he can protect himself. Its background is black, the letters are red so that it highlight and the guy has dark cloth. it is trying to get into people´s head that books are dangerous and are bad for our self. 

In english class we have been lookin for different quotes of figures of speech in the book fahrenheit 451, and here are some examples of the ones we found:

Personification: In the page 68 it says “Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, were he stood a long time watching the rain hits the window before he came back down the hall in the gray light, waiting for the tremble to subside.” This is a personification because the rain can´t hit the window, the ones that “hit” are the humans. This makes us think that the rain was really strong.

Oxymoron: In the page 69 it says “I saw the damnedest snake in the world the other night. It was dead but it was alive. It could see but it couldn’t see. You want to see that snake? It´s at Emergency Hospital where they field a report on all the junk the snake got out of you! Would you like to go and check their file? Maybe you´d look under Guy Montag or maybe under Fear or War. Would you like to go to that burnt last night? And rake ashes for the bones of the woman who set fire to her own house! What about Clarisse McClellan, where do we look for her? The morgue! Listen!” This is an oxymoron because it is a contradiction. A snake can’t be alive and dead at the same time, and can’t see and not see at the same time. This makes us feel confused about what is actually happening to the snake.

Hyperbole: In the page 70 it says “I´ve heard rumors; the world is starving but we are well fed.” This is a hyperbole because the entire world can’t be starving, many a lot of people but not the whole world. This makes us feel that they are really egocentric because they think that they are superior than the others because they have more things, in this case food, than a lot of people.

Simile: In the page 72 it says “She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat.” This is a simile because it is comparing a wax doll that is melting with a person, in this case Mildred. This make us feel like Mildred is so sad and upset that she´s it´s like melting.

Anaphora: In the page 72 it says “Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? Light the third page, from the second and so on, chain-smoking, chapter by chapter all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the secondhand motions and time-worn philosophies.” This is an anaphora because the word “light” is repeated several times. This makes us feel that they really hate book because of all those false promises and silly words that books have.