THE ULTIMATE
Aptly named for the temperature at which books burn. The title gives us the resounding theme of this classic literature, making it quite apropos.
Ray Bradbury builds a future where firemen start fires instead of quelling them. Where presenting a facade of happiness is more important than actually being happy. Where people rush through life encouraged to never look beneath the surface of things around them. In this dystopian society common cruelty, blind acceptance and general indifference abound throughout the country’s populace while those who think a little more grow beyond such actions, yet must worry about persecution in their own right. The tale centers around a fireman, Guy Montag, who after years of loyalty questions the system. His life is touched in many ways that shake his veneer and remind us, the readers, that life is more than just television, music or running from place to place. The novel questions what makes friendship, love or dedication. Most characters are not particularly filled with depth, which works wonderfully for this book, as they all chase to keep up with the most popular topics and avoid personal growth as society dictates. This is not to say that they are not characters in their own right, they act and breathe as one would expect, but never truly change, which as said works perfectly for this novel. Personally one of my favorite aspects of this novel is how subtly it is touched upon, that no two people get the same thing from a book. And just like that concept this book itself delivers something a little different to each reader, yet always makes one think.
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This is the first post on our classic literature blog! Welcome, and read about The Road. It’s a desolate world of slate skies and frozen lifeless landscapes that make up the scenery of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The amazing thing to me is that McCarthy can create such an interesting page-turner in such a void of life. An unknown catastrophe has wiped out nearly the entire civilization. There are few people, other than corpses. No wild animals. Crops and electricity are nonexistent. Everything is vacant and lifeless as the father and son walk along a vast and desolate stretch of road in hopeful search for a remaining community and weather other than frozen winds and ashy sleet. Resourcefulness of foodstuffs and materials, such as their few remaining bullets and things scavenged like blankets and fuel, is the way the two survive. Their few possessions fit into the shopping cart that they push along in front of them. It is fitted with a rearview mirror in case of danger. Everybody is danger. The rules are kill, steal, plunder; do what you have to do to survive. In the dark world of The Road anything goes in the course of self-preservation. At least, this is case in the eyes of the father. Seemingly every other survivor feels this way too, as death lurks watchfully from every shadow. The boy, counterbalance to the man, sees things through a compassionate eye, and because of the child the father stays within certain moral laws when it comes to outsiders. The father would certainly be a much different man without the boy around. The most important survival tool for the two, of course, is each other. Their quiet love in their dark quest for survival and life is what The Road is really all about. It is also why I burned through this book as quickly as I did. Find more interesting book reviews here: https://writtenonthewind.tumblr.com/post/159152851248/classic-english-literature-brideshead-revisited https://writtenonthewind.tumblr.com/post/159152982068/house-on-mango-street-ages-with-its-readers https://writtenonthewind.tumblr.com/post/159152805623/books-to-movies-the-other-way-round |
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