I will give brainiest to whoever answers I just need help Does the ending of Fahrenheit 451 feel fulfilling? Why or why not? Is the ending a deux ex machina (where the author suddenly saves the day with something that feels a little too neat, that doesn’t totally go with the logical build-up of the book)? Is the ending happy, sad, or a mixture?
What feelings are you left with for Montag and his society? What do you think happened to Faber? Do you think Montag and the outcasts’ plan for saving books is realistic?

Explanation:

Most of Fahrenheit 451 focuses on the vices and negative tendencies of human nature that mades Montag's society so dark and miserable.  So it is nice that at the end of the novel, there is a ray of hope. If you look at only the events of the ending, it still might seem quite cynical and depressiong; Montag's city has been decimated, his wife killed, Faber has suffered an unknown fate, Clarisse is gone, and everything that Montag ever knew or loved was destroyed.  That's not a very happy picture.

However, if you look closely at the plan that Granger outlines, and the story of the phoenix that he uses, there is a ray of hope and optimism.  Granger describes how according to legend, the phoenix, a bird,

"every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up...but every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of hte ashes, he got himself born all over again."

This story relates to Montag's society; it has crumbled and burned, and these men, these outliers, are going to be the ones to go back and rebuild everything.  Granger says that as they rebuild, this time, they are going to rebuild things right so that they can stop making all of the same mistakes.

So despite the dramatically depressing ending, Bradbury takes the ashes of Montag's society, and asserts that a brighter, better world can be built out of them, and Montag will be one of the people who helps to do that.  That is the feeling and hope that lies at the end of the novel.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

which lines in this excerpt from act i of shakespeare's romeo and juliet suggest that lord capulet respects free will?