Irony and Simile in "The Sieve and the Sand".

Before.

I also found an Irony in the page 78 of the book: 

1. “I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I´d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help”. (Bradbury, 78).

After.

In this quote, Montag stays that his happiness laid, before, on burning books. However, that didn´t happen anymore. As he was searching for the truth and the happiness, he thought that books were the way to find it again; which is ironic because he first destroyed them but know he was willing to scape in order to protect them and find the truth in the ideas and thoughts they had. With this quote, the reader understands that Montag no longer wants to be a firemen and that he wants to find the truth no matter the consequences. I perceived this effect because that is what we felt when we read it; I confirmed that Montag´s thirst of knowledge had to be satiated with books.

The most prevailing figure of speech in the second part of Fahrenheit 451 is the simile which is a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like, such as or as”.

One of the most important similes in Fahrenheit 451 is:

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“How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun. I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths” (Bradbury, 85).

This is a simile because it is a comparison made between two unlike objects (Statue of ice and newspaper) and the word like is used in it. In this case, Faber refers on how the newspaper was “dying” or disappearing when he was a student; because no one wanted it back and, also, the government didn’t see a use to keep printing newspapers; so they turned to electronics.

This simile refers how the newspaper ( the statue of ice )  is disappearing or melting in this futurist society where they do not care about the news and aren’t open minded about what was happening at that moment, in the rest of the world, or in the past.

When I read this, I liked the way in which Faber expressed about the newspaper. When he says it is beautiful, I noticed that he really sees a value in the newspaper and appreciates the privilege of have being able to know the newspaper when it was still “alive”. However, he is living in a society where it is already melted.​

Also, as it is shown in the image below, the abolition of the newspapers casues corruption because the government has more options to manipulate the information and become corrupt.