Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Over the weekend I stumbled across the text version of Fahrenheit 451. Personally, the general story line behind Fahrenheit 451 is very boring. I am not interesting in the text version or the graphic novel version. I think it is too fictional. However, without the pictures in the graphic novel version, I do not think I would be able to get through the story. The text version would be virtually impossible for me to get through because it would be so boring. The only interesting part of the entire novel for me was the tones of color Tim Hamilton uses to express the mood. Between pages 112-121, the color is a bright orange and yellow. On page 121, without even reading the words or looking at the pictures, the mood automatically changes because of the dark color. In general, bright sends a happier, positive tone and dark sends a mean, negative tone. This story falls out of the stereotypical interpretations of color because the bright is symbolizing fire which ultimately means destruction and death and the dark symbolizes the end. I think it would be interesting to read a book with very little words, as few as possible, and have each page a different color. Everyone would decipher each word based on the color of the page. This is similar to what readers do in Fahrenheit 451 only there is conversation and text on the majority of the pages.

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