Bradbury is trying to show how this society is constantly bombarded with media. In this case, it's advertisements pounding them into a passive state. No one on the train is talking or interacting. They are just sitting listening to the advertisement like they are being brainwashed into buying denham's dentifrice. In contrast to this Montag is trying to read a passage from the Bible about letting go of material things (including Denham's dentifrice). This juxtaposition between the natural world and materialism further shows how society is so wrapped up in media that they are unaware of the world around them.
A legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of the government.
"The White Man's Burden" thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire (1583–1945) was the Englishman's "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth"
<u>Explanation:</u>
''The White Man's Burden,'' was a famous poem written by Kipling. It was written in the year 1899. The poem was addressed not to the British but to the Americans, who were then, under President McKinley, beginning their own process of colonizing the Philippines.
Rudyard Kipling's notorious prescription for the United States as it began to rule the Philippine Islands. That refrain, from an 1899 poem, eventually became a key exhibit in the case against the racism and exploitation of 19th-century imperialism.
Celestial - Relating to the sky
Sagacity- The capacity to reason, judge, and act intelligently
Conjecture - To form an opinion without strong evidence
Interpose - To come between two things, to interrupt
