Name_________________Date________Period__________ Fahrenheit 451 Anticipation Guide Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree. Write one to two sentences explaining your thoughts about each statement. There are not right or wrong answers! 1. Laws are always written for the protection of the citizens. 2. Some books are evil and should be destroyed. 3. In a world filled with constant‚ 24-hour news‚ there are no true facts. (Things keep changing.) 4. If it was
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in a world where mistrust and deceit runs a totalitarian government. Ray Bradbury created a dystopia‚ where everyone in society questions one another’s knowledge and criticizes other based on how different they are from everyone else. Trusting others is questionable throughout the novel. Meanwhile‚ everyone isolates each other from the rest of the world‚ where lacking of communication come into play and causes to make poor judgements towards another individual. In Bradbury Fahrenheit 451‚ mostly
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Fahrenheit 451: In Search of a Controlled Burn Ray Bradbury’s protagonist in Fahrenheit 451 revels in seeing things eaten and things blackened by fire. His name is Montag and his world is immersed in flames from the outset‚ with a blaze so bright before his kerosene spitting python that it blinds. He breathes in fire beneath a flameproof jacket‚ his burnt-corked countenance expresses fire with a permanent grin “driven back by flame‚” while his perfume is the overwhelming stench of kerosene. His
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“I’ve meant to talk to you about her. Strange” (Bradbury 51). Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about a society of people who never think about things. A fireman named Montag meets a girl who does think about everything. After meeting her‚ Montag starts thinking and asking questions about many different things going on around him. Mildred‚ who is the wife of the main character‚ Montag‚ is not happy‚ but she acts happy. There are a few things that show she’s unhappy. You can tell in
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Fahrenheit 451 Dualities: Natural World vs. Unnatural World The book Fahrenheit 451 has many dualities‚ but the one I chose to focus on was the natural world vs. unnatural world. I chose this because I felt that it was not only a main conflict in the book but also in today’s modern society. One example of the unnatural world would be the giant TV that we find lingering throughout the book that consumes Montag’s wife‚ Mildred. As for the natural world‚ there aren’t very many examples in the book
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The challenged book I recently read was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book has been challenged‚ and almost banned‚ for quite a while. I personally disagree with the statement that this book should be banned. This book has a very deep and meaningful background‚ and the good definitely outdoes the bad. The people who chose to ban this book did have a point‚ that foul language and violence is not good for a young student to read‚ but the good in this book should cover up the bad. The foul language
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Choice # 1: In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Beatty claims that "If you don’t want a house built‚ hide the nails and wood" (61).* What Beatty means here‚ is that if people don’t want society to have knowledge‚ then all knowledge-bearing materials must be destroyed‚ which in this instance‚ are books. Books give people knowledge and more complications‚ which he claims can make people less happy. Ignorance is bliss because every character in Fahrenheit 451 who discovers the truth is in immediate trouble
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Fahrenheit 451 In Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ the main character Guy Montag makes a complete metamorphosis. He goes from hating books to liking them. He changes from a stolid character‚ incognizant of the activities in his surroundings‚ to a person conscious of everything‚ enlightened by the new world he is exposed to. There are many events that take place in this change in Montag. Montag’s first awakening was when he meets Clarisse‚ a 17 year old outcast in his society. She asks him if he
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Spiritual redemption inspired by books and oppressive government in Fahrenheit 451 People start to think about rebellion when the government rules people tyrannically for a long time‚ trying to control people’s thoughts in a forceful way. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury describes a dystopian society where no one is allowed to read books or think freely. The government’s strong control of people’s minds infuriated Montag so much that he even abandoned the job that his father and grandfather
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1950s and farther back. Many authors include the symbol and presence of mirrors in their stories to show how the characters see themselves. These authors include American writer‚ Ray Bradbury. In Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ he uses many different symbols to represent the world surrounding the protagonist‚ Guy Montag. Firefighter Guy Montag lives in a bland‚ numb society where books are seen as dangerous
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