Gates' purpose in telling the story about watching Nelson Mandela walk out of prison was to illustrate that there's hope for humanity.
Nelson Mandela was an activist. He fought for apartheid and discrimination against blacks in South Africa. He fought for the freedom of black people. This eventually led to his imprisonment.
Later he was eventually set free from prison. This represented hope to the people. It illustrated that we are all equal. This illustrated that there's hope for humanity.
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6 might be because it has the right definition?!?!
<span>It isn’t the literal meanings of the words that make it difficult. It’s the connotations — all those associated ideas that hang around a word like shadows of other meanings. It’s connotation that makes <em>house</em> different from<em> home </em>and makes <em>scheme</em> into something shadier in American English than it is in British English. </span><span>A good translator, accordingly, will try to convey the connotative as well as the literal meanings in the text; but sometimes that can be a whole bundle of meanings at once, and trying to fit all of them into the space available can be like trying to stuff a down sleeping bag back into its sack.</span>
I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 in a very long time, but I do remember this part. I think a possible reason as to why the author does this is to start creating conflict and introduce the real turning point of the story, when we find out what the real problem is. Hope this helped.
