"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is a last one which makes the heart run over."-Fahrenheit 451, page 71.
Each person has a best friend in this world, someone that you couldn't live without. A person that brings out the goodness in your heart, and makes your heart overflow with love. For Guy, the primary character in Fahrenheit 451, the person that does that to him is Clarisse. Ray Bradbury wrote this passage into the book to give a purpose of love to the novel. He wanted to show that Guy had other feelings and ides other than simply having a desire to burn. Burning wasn't the only thing that controlled his mind. The meaning of this quote is that no matter how heartless a person may seem, no matter if it looked like he has no feelings, everyone has some special person that makes their heart fill with love and joy. Love, happiness, and freedom are the primary tones in this paragraph. Ray is trying to convey in this piece that loving a person gives off happiness, and that love and happiness all tie into freedom. Love and happiness can set you free, even when the world is collapsing around you.
My dear, you have written a lovely analysis of the quotation, yet I fear you have mistaken the source. It is the late James Boswell who wrote these words.
ReplyDeleteThat quote belongs to Boswell, certainly, but Bradbury quotes that Boswell´s phrase in the second part of Fahrenheit 451. That´s it.
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