I chose to compare and contrast the novels A Farewell to Arms, and by Ernest Hemingway and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. from the get go both books describe the settings and are totally on opposit ends of the spectrum. The novel, Fahrenheit 451, takes place in an unnamed futuristic city sometime in the 24th century. the technology has
             transformed society into a land of virtual reality. where as, the novel, A Farewell to Arms, is primarily set in Gorizia, a small town near the
             Italian-Austrian border, with World War I as its setting in 1914.
             The mood of a book sets everything for the book, "It was a sepcial pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened...(Bradbury p3)" The tone of Fahrenheit 451 is futuristic and gloomy. The world, is portrayed in the novel as a dictatorial police state and filled with strange technological modernizations.Throughout the novel, A Farewell to Arms, a mood of continuous boredom, disappointment, and apathy, generated from a sense of inevitability of fate, is the dominating mood. both have its extremes but both make the ends of the spectrum almost meet. with its over powering sense of little controll of the factors that are to arive.
             Guy Montag was a fire man in the 24th century. His job was to burn books and the homes of people who owned them. "With the symbolic helmet numbered 451on his stolid head,[...]he flicked on the igniter and the jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red anf yellow and black. (Bradbury p3)" Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a fomer student, how volunteered to join the italian army as an ambullance officer. the two of them had very different jobs. Guy montag's job was to burn and destroy, while Lieutenant Frederic Henry's deuties were to perserve life to the best of his ability. both in there own stories found a significant other that would change there out look on things. Guy Montag began to qustion his life when he met a young woman. his sense of pu...