Clarisse specifically
states,
"I'm
afraid of children my own age. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm
afraid."
Here is the deal
with Clarisse. She represents everything that is real. This world that
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in contains nothing of the reality that
we want to have in place today... except Clarisse. She fears her peers because the are
reckless and they don't have any sense of
responsibility.
Just a few paragraphs later Clarisse claims
that she really enjoys watching people. She doesn't necessarily know them, but she likes
to use her imagination and try to figure out where people are going and what they intend
to do when they get there.
These features of Clarisse prove
that she thinks much more than the average kid in the society represented by this
novel.
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