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…that made it a good novel. One technique that Bradbury did a good job of using was description. He described things specifically using outstanding similes and personifications. One example is how he mentioned the fire hose. He called it 'the great python…

…“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.” (P.153) In Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, Okonkwo kills himself because of Nwoye’s failure to follow in his footsteps. Throughout “Things Fall Apart”, Nwoye has been proving himself time after time a failure…

…into the province. He backed his side so intensely, that he wrote and printed a pamphlet which described the necessity of paper currency. Being liked by the public, and suppressing the wealthy men's opposition, the point was taken to the House, where it won favor…

…Then gaius went with a leap over the Green River at the door of the tree houses, the Green was flashing, clear in the sunlight when he passed over it, tillens shadow blessed the water for a short moment afterwards also. They ran to catch the ox cart…

…communists from jobs in defense plants and gave the government right to deport any alien suspected of subversion. Along with other institutions set up by Truman and the Congress, like the Loyalty Review Board in 1947 and the House Un-American Activies Committee…

…to the fire truck when an alarm sounds. Beatty, who rarely drives, takes the wheel and propels the fire truck toward the next target - Montag's house. When Beatty prepares to arrest him, Montag realizes that he cannot contain his loathing for a sadistic, escapist…

…of the army suffered, finally to be undermined by a succession of military defeats. When the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, protested against the inefficient conduct of the war and the uninformed policies of the imperial government, the Tsar…

…. And so for one reason after another this manuscript and others were moved to various locations over many years. It was in 1731 that the place at which the manuscript was stored, The Ashburnham House, caught fire. The manuscript in which Beowulf was bound…

…from the golem, because fire demolished his family's house when he was a baby-tauren. Sirious Death cast a spell, called "Ice Shield" to protect the ship from the heat and the human took "The Spice" to sharpen his senses and to be able to drive the spaceship…

…he sat in the house he took twine and knitted meshes as a net is made. When he found that the Aesir were at hand (Ódin having seen his hiding-place from Hlidskjalf), he cast the net into the fire, and leapt as a salmon into the stream. The Aesir went…