Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think? Going off -hunting pigs- letting fires out - and now!"
This passage is very meaningful to me, because it shows us that the boys are becoming nefarious beast. The boys are becoming a physco. The passage shows that some of the boys loose their manner. Jack wants to be a leader of the boys, it shows us that the Jack is already looking for the political power. By this diabolical thought, there was a disruption between their relationship and divided into two groups. Jack give a malignant influence to the boys about the killing and way they behave. There is a right force that seek for right. Ralph's group fought back and told them to think and look back of yourself. This situation was extremely invidious for Ralph. He wants to get out of this island, but crazy boys doesn' t listen to him and try to adopt in this island. It was shame to Ralph, because he was being on charge of taking care of the boys, he was the chief. Piggy and Ralph is kind of grownups in this novel, they know what is right or wrong. They belived that there is hope to get out, but Jack's group didn't.
Fahrenheit451
burning soul with book
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"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think? Going off -hunting pigs- letting fires out - and now!"
I think this passage also relates to Brave New World. Obviously, people in Brave New World believe that they are the most sophisticated humans. However, to the readers, the people in that novel are not humans. No, they do NOT have the ideas, morals, or even common sense to be called true humans. Those people sacrificed books, true ideas, religion, and even their families; they trashed their own cultures just to become a technological city, a "utopia." These people can't be humans. Maybe in their physical structures they are homo sapiens sapiens, but mind-wise, the people of the future are soul-less, moral-less, empty shells living in an infernal destruction nicely packaged in "utopia" wrappings. The boys in your story might be "animals" or "brutes" because of their violent behaviors, but the humans of the future (our possible descendents) are soul-less and equal to an "animal."
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