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06 Assignment - Point of View
Mia Ramboldt
Analyze the author’s use of language. It is essential to getting across the intended meaning.
Select four quotes from the novel that signifies key ideas that the author hopes the reader
takes from the book. They may be quotes spoken by characters or from the narration. Please
include page numbers with the quotes (MLA citations).
Quote
“How like a mirror, too, her
face. Impossible; for how many
people did you know that
refracted your own light to
you?” (Bradbury 4-77)
“I heard once that a long time
ago houses used to burn by
accident and they needed
firemen to stop the flames.”
(Bradbury 3-77)
“The books lay like mounds of
fishes left to dry.” (Bradbury
18-77)
Page number Relevance to the Intended meaning for the
novel reader
4 I think the relevance
to the novel is this girl I think the intended
is a sign to Montag meaning by the author to
later on in the story. the reader was to maybe
He might be having show the reader she may
memories and the girl not be real, she might be a
is a coping way they part of his imagination, he
are coming back to sees himself in her.
him, she may or may
not be real.
3 The relevance in this I think the intended
is the point of burning meaning by the author to
the books. We don’t the reader is to show that
really know why they this girl is a very important
burn books in the part of the story because we
beginning and know that what she said
somehow the girl about firemen putting out
knows they used to the fire is true and means
put out fires instead that something might be
of starting them. Her covered up but, why?
knowledge to this
could be a connection
to why firemen
stopped putting out
the fire and started
causing them.
18 I think the relevance I think what the author
this has is making the meant this as the books are
reader question why? very old and nobody has
Why hasn’t anybody touched now read them in a
read or even touched very long while.
these for so long? It
could later on lead to
someone reading
them and/or

“Funny, how funny, not to 20
remember where or when you
met your husband or wife."
(Bradbury 20-77)
discovering the truth
about fireman, what
really happened?
There is relevance in I think the author is trying
this part of the story to say this means something
the author is trying to is actually going on. He’s
make is how he can’t giving hints on things people
even remember when don’t recall even happening
or where he met his or what went on with
wife. It could have to firemen.
do with why nobody
knows what firemen
really did, the
connection is why
they aren’t
remembering
anything.