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    hound. Montag flees to Faber’s house to ask for advice. When Montag arrives Faber tells him this quote. In this quote Faber is saying that it is not just the books that contain information but the sources. Some of the sources Faber talks about in the book are records‚ pictures‚ friends and nature. This quote is important because Montag really wants to become happy and he believes that the way to do so is by reading books. Faber tries to tell him that the information comes from the source or people that

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    The novel opens with Guy Montag‚ a “fireman” in a futuristic society where he and his coworkers start fires rather than put them out. Books are banned and burned upon discovery‚ and Montag has no qualms about his responsibility. But then he meets Clarisse McClellan‚ a seventeen-year-old Bohemian girl who happens to be his neighbor. She’s very chatty‚ and opens his eyes to the world of nature. Montag grows increasingly dissatisfied with his life the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to

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    Fahrenheit 541‚ that society is a place not to think and react. Another way Ray Bradbury has shown the mindless mass culture is though the character Faber. Faber is an old man and a friend to Montag‚ He compares how book are almost the same as society. How books need quality‚ able to understand and those are something that you need to find in people. Faber tell Montag‚ “Number one: Books have to have to have quality. Number two: One needs leisure to digest it. Number three: One needs the right to

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    How do authors portray the isolation of the female protagonists in ‘The Bell Jar’‚ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’‚ ‘Ariel’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’? Female emancipation and the struggle for women of existing within a predominately patriarchal society is a prevalent topic in literature. Female heroines are portrayed variably across all eras and genres of literature and yet the use of a melancholic and isolated female protagonist is arguably inescapable as writers continually refer back to a critical portrayal

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    think autonomously and affect their civilization. Their ability of intellectual freedom and independent thought yield changes to society such as the characters of Fahrenheit 451: Clarisse‚ Faber‚ Beaty‚ and Montag. VIKI is cunningly capable of alternating the thoughts of other robots in her control as when Faber and Clarisse influence Montag to think independently. All of the characters ability to think independently helps them comprehend thoughts without restriction and understand more. In I‚ Robot

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    (MIP-2) The ability to build and do indicate how hands are capable to function‚ and these abilities symbolize a deeper meaning through positivity‚ allowing the hands to influence Montag’s aspirations by the author using positive notions. (SIP-A) The author displays the hands in regards to safety and security‚ elaborating on the positive descriptions on how they seem to have a life of their own. (STEWE-1) Hands weren’t only used to describe their capabilities physically. Once a fireman‚ Montag only

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    everyone is being controlled‚ no one has a say to what they can and cannot do. Like Montag mentions he has to do what he is told. a. "I don’t want to change sides and just be told what to do. There is no reason to change if I do that‚" (pg. 92) b. Faber said this when he was walking and talking to Montag. c. This quote means that he wants to be himself and act however he’d like‚ but any way he goes he is going to be controlled. a. "Silly words‚ silly words‚ silly awful hurting words‚’ said Mrs. Bowles

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    Name Professor Class Date Fahrenheit 451: Final Draft In 1953‚ Ray Bradbury wrote his novel Fahrenheit 451. Since its debut‚ Fahrenheit 451 has been regarded as a masterful work of literary fiction with powerful political commentary‚ akin to George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. According to Willis McNelly‚ “For Bradbury‚ a metaphor is not merely a figure of speech‚ it is a vital concept‚ a method he uses for comprehending one reality and expressing it in terms of another; it permits the reader

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    Ireland was a British colony for more than seven centuries‚ for this time it was hidden their native identity‚ as well as their language. The British colonizers imposed not only their language but also their culture. In 1922‚ it was signed the Treaty in which Ireland was considered a free state. As and introduction to Heaney poems‚ I will use a poem of Yeats‚ who is the poet that starts to talk about postcolonial themes. Maybe Yeats was one the most important figures in the reconstruction of

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    One: ‘Atmospheres’‚ pp. 30-85]. BODY / MIND Pallasmaa‚ J. (2005). The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses‚ Chichester: Wiley. [Focus on Part Two‚ pp. 40-72] Sennett‚ R. (1994) ‘Urban Individualism’‚ in Flesh and Stone‚ London: Faber & Faber‚ pp. 317-38 MEMORY / TIME Forty‚ A. (2000) ‘Memory’‚ in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture‚ London: Thames & Hudson‚ pp. 206-19. Boym‚ S. (2007)‚ ‘Nostalgia and Its Discontents’‚ The Hedgehog Review‚ vol. 9‚ no. 2‚ pp

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