What techniques does the author use to engage the audience and make the story effective?
Bradbury is a very effective writer, and his story kept me reading til the last page. Bradbury used a lot of suspense in this novel. Clarisse's death was very strange and suspicious, and the reader never really knows what went on and how it happened. Also, from the beginning of the story, the reader can assume that one of the main characters is going to defy society and start a revolution, and it is really hard to tell. The author suspended the reader and made them read on to find out what really happened.
The author also used a technique known as fear. The fear was not in the book, however. The fear was in the reader. The world that Bradbury described could very possibly become our future. That fact alone would keep the reader interested in the story and have them keep reading to find out what happens next. I find so many kids in our school that really hate reading. Its a little scary, because I know that everyone likes to watch t.v. and some kids watch it a little too often. Most students say they only read when they're forced to. My mom is a reading teacher, and she hates to hear that, and she says she hears it way too often. Doesn't that sound a lot like the future described in the story? The fact that the two realities are so similar make the reader even more curious and it keeps them reading. Maybe that's how the book got to be so popular. People just kept reading it and couldn't stop and then they themselves drew parallels to our society and were shocked. If we don't learn from this book, we will definitely be doomed to repeat it. The whole idea is really frightening, and is one reason that Bradbury was able to get his point across so well.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.
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