Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?
DIFFICULTY : Medium
CLUE : Poor Clarisse realized the "burning" desires reading sparks deep inside you, but she chose to set the blaze anyway.
After reading this novel and Nineteen-Eighty Four, I decided dystopian literature was very interesting to me, and I searched out other novels with the same premise: a futuristic or make-believe world where the worries or feared predictions of modern intellectual giants come true, attempting to explain a truth or perceived truth about people, government, and life in the world we live in. These types of novels always offered me much to think about and quickly became my favorite novels. The above novel provided me with many connections to other literature and to the ideas of past authors, validating and confirming my belief that the greatest minds of any time feared mainly the same aspects of the human condition.
Besides this novel's thought-provoking nature and gut-wrenching picture of a society without books and the freedom to think freely and grow, it gives us an amazing and memorable character—Clarisse McClellan, a seventeen-year old wise before her years, a character only appearing on a handful of its pages. In my mind this character reaches the status of Irene Adler for the Sherlock Holmes stories, appearing for only a short time, but creating an everlasting interest and wonder in readers.
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