This semester was unlike any other courses that I've taken throughout high school. The fall of 2020 was the hardest season I have experienced in my lifetime. In the last couple weeks alone, more people have died from the Covid-19 pandemic than in the 9/11 attack and Pearl Harbor attack combined together. It seemed like the country has lost it's mind. After all of this, you would start to think that school would fall apart. This is true because a lot of things have changed, but there was one class that stood out in my memory. In my English 3 class, my teacher threw out a challenge on the very first day of school. The students and I got to choose how we wanted the course to run. From that point on, we had the opportunity to make choices and commitments that would define our learning for the rest of the semester. This semester was unlike any other because never did we ever write daily journals or have such easy homework. Although s...
Before Montag meets Clarisse, his sixteen-year old neighbor, he's much like a robot who just burns books. The only things he does is go to work, deals with his suicidal wife, and has his own world of technology where watching Tv is all he does at home but he never really notices what he is actually doing. Clarisse gets him out of his "world" and makes him see all the good in life that's around him. Even though she does all of this indirectly, she inspires him to take big steps. Like a novelist, Clarisse is aware of the world that she lives in. In conversations with Montag, she shows him how she observes society, loves nature, and reflects off of what she sees. She shares her insights with people while expressing wonderment at the way people talk to each other without actually talking about something meaningful. She shares metaphors comparing the rain to wine and fallen leaves to cinnamon. She displays curiosity about other people's motivations and lives...
The effect of Clarisse showing up is because she has a transformative effect on Montag meaning she represents life and she shows him how dull his life has become. My first impression of Clarisse is she's crazy because that is how she describes herself.
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