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   Clarisse talks about her uncle quite a bit; he seems to be her main source of information about the way things used to be. In the second conversation between Clarisse and Montag that we read about, Clarisse tells Montag that, according to her uncle, it used to be that children didn't kill one another as easily as they seem to know.  She also tells him that her uncle says that people used to be more responsible and that's missing in their society.  She goes on to say that no one is responsible any longer and that when she was a little girl, she was occasionally spanked and that she now has to uphold certain responsibilities like shopping and sharing in the housecleaning.  Responsibility, therefore, is the virtue that is lacking in the youth of the story.

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   Posted by luannw on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 4:33 AM