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Wake Up Call By Fahrenheit 451
The song “Wake Up Call” by Maroon 5 is a pop song that accurately depicts a scene in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The song represents the time in the story when Guy Montag is shocked by the fact that someone has pulled the alarm on his house and after burning his house he burns Captain Beatty. In “Wake Up Call” the speaker says to the superior “Don't you care about me?/ I don't think so/ Came without a warning, so I had to shoot [you] dead/ Come around here?/ I don't think so/ Would have bled to make you happy/ You didn't need to treat me” that way (Levine 18-27). The scene depicted by the song is also shown in the novel when Montag closed his eyes and pointed the flamethrower to Beatty and watched him fall to the ground like melted
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