It was a pleasure to burn.If you missed your opportunity to construct a T-Chart of "pleasure" and "burning" references in the opening scene of the novel, here's your chance.
Please make a T-Chart and label the left-hand column "Pleasure" and the right-hand column "Burn." Anything (diction, imagery, detail, figurative language, etc.) that has a connotation of either pleasure or burning should be placed in the appropriate column (or both columns, if it has connotations for both).
At the bottom of the T-Chart, please complete the following sentence and add one or two more sentences of your own; embed material quoted from the story to help support your response:
In addition to drawing the reader into the novel, Bradbury opens with a paradox because it is likely that by the end of the novel...(Bear in mind that Flannery O'Connor employed a similar paradox at the end of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" when The Misfit said, "No pleasure but meanness." How does the appearance of the paradox at the beginning of the story versus the end allow the reader to make different inferences about the outcome of the novel?)
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