Weekly Reflection- 12/6/14

The past few weeks we have been close reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, trying to pull out the meaning behind everything said. First, as a class, we read the opening paragraphs of 451 to learn what we were looking for, how to find it, and what to make of it once we did. We learned to find where the author is "foiling" a character with another, drawing attention to it, or what the author is trying to say with a certain metaphor. Everything the author says, from symbolism to foiling to metaphors, has a purpose, so we have to figure it out to get a better grasp of the meaning. It's kind of hard, and takes a good amount of time and effort, but it does give a better understanding of the text.