At some point in this book we all felt like Montag, it could've been the person he was in the beginning of the book or in the end. In other words, Montag slowly came to realize he wasn't living the way he would've liked to. In the beginning of the book he was burning books without a care in the world and at the end he risked his life to save them, pretty ironic right? After the day Montag came across Clarisse he just started coming to his senses that they live their life staring at TV screens, and have very few communication with each other. He starts evolving into this person he never pictured he'd be. The way the Ray Bradbury does this throughout the book is he uses syntax and figures of speech to make it understandable for us to read or to let us know he feels.
In the book Ray Bradbury makes us feel like we're there when the jets are flying over and he does this by saying numbers while Montag tries calling 911 for help so it makes us feel overwhelmed while reading it. Also when Clarisse meets Montag she starts asking so many questions Montag feels almost attacked because she is trying to have a conversation with him. It was after Clarisse questioned Montag's happiness where Ray Bradbury said "He was not happy. He said the words to himself". I think Ray Bradbury did that to let us know that from that point on Montag wasn't sure if he was actually living or if he was even happy. Montag starts to realize that he is in fact not content at all but in society they had a different definition of happy. This is just one out of so many other ways Bradbury uses figures of speech to get to his point.
Another figure of speech that Bradbury uses is Personification and he does this by comparing pigeons with books. Bradbury says, " ..to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the pigeon-winged books died on the porch..". I think Bradbury is saying that the pigeons are the books and Montag burns books because that is what his job consists of which makes him look like a terrible person. He is not saying Montag is a bad person because soon enough Montag doesn't see the world like he use to. This also shows us how Montag starts thinking about how he is living in a different world than he would like.
The way Bradbury uses syntax is by using run on sentences in this book, and he did it quite well. I mentioned the jets flying over which is one example of syntax that was used. There are few more sentences he puts in this book that are run on and he does it on certain parts of the book but it means something. When he does this it's because he wants to read it the way it's written, it's meant to take our breathe away. He writes so much and sometimes it's repetitive but that's the way he wants us to read it because he wants us to get an understanding of how the character feels.
In conclusion, throughout this whole book Ray Bradbury gave us a lot of figures of speech to make us feel what the character feels. His way of using syntax and diction to let us know how Montag was thinking was very well written. He described Montag's thoughts very well with his usage of run on sentences. Not to mention he made us feel as if we were there watching the jets fly over. Everything Ray Bradbury used in this book had a meaning behind it whether to let us know something or to get our attention.
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