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    A society hooked on TV‚ and police forces that harass and punish independent thinkers‚ all of this in a book that takes the reader for a spin in a chaotic‚ new world. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ starts off politically correct‚ hating books‚ burning them without a twinge of guilt. The reason he burns books is because he is the new type of firefighter‚ where they burns books instead of putting out fires. Also‚ the law enforces the people of the city to never have

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    Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury presented me with a greater understanding of what some people predicted a futuristic society would represent‚ and how the world differs from what Ray Bradbury depicted. The novel elucidated the fact that this community frowns upon books very harshly‚ and this society has made a job description to burn houses that contain books in them. The whole time I was reading this novel I was thinking that this society could be my community right now by reading the

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    It is one thing to have bad things happen‚ but another to let them carry on. In the dystopian novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ written by Ray Bradubury‚ shows a society in which books are illegal and the life of a fireman by the name of Guy Montag and his struggles that follow him after he becomes self aware of the terrible mindless society that he lives in. Not wanting to just go with the flow Montag decides that he will no longer conform to the status quo of the government‚ nor the dystopian nightmare that

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    Fahrenheit 451 Change

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    Essay- Fahrenheit 451 Topic Sentence: Everyone undergoes change in their life‚ whether it is beneficial or not. Expand: Some can be life changing‚ while others can be life threatening. Literary Information: In Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ Lead into Thesis: Montag‚ the protagonist‚ lives in a world that dramatically changes him on a daily basis. It makes him realize how society has changed. Thesis Statement: As the protagonist‚ Montag undergoes many changes

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    person who is not consumed by technology has the ability to think and take life slow.(BS-4) People who are not consumed by technology see the effects that media has on their society. (TS) In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ technology has affected many people’s ability to think and they have become robots of technology in the society. (MIP-1) Many people have been consumed by technology and have started to shown inhuman traits. (SIP-A) Mildred has become consumed

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    Theme of Fahrenheit 451

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    Andres Rosas August 7‚ 2014 English III B Unit 10 The theme of duality in “Fahrenheit 451” The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is an extremely powerful novel. It speaks volumes about the nature of human society‚ and how it behaves under the circumstances of a bleak dystopia. In achieving this‚ Bradbury pushes the theme of duality via the specific instances of Montag‚ the destruction of the city‚ and the Phoenix. He does this so he can illustrate clearly the duality of how creation can

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    other literature were banned‚ because it lost the battle to technology. In the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury the protagonist fireman Guy Montag lives in a dystopia where literature is banned and citizens are consumed by technology. Through the novel Montag’s interest for books reveals his true feelings towards his society. Throughout Fahrenheit 451‚ Montag shows his struggle and hatred for the society he lives in through his growing love for literature‚ bravery‚ and rebellion. In the novel

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    Bradbury wrote the conclusion of the novel to make the readers believe that Montag will be ultimately happy with the book people. I think that subconsciously Montag was always against society and that once he found the book the book people he finally felt that he had a place to belong. We see this through how courteous the book people are to him and how Montag is so accepting of their hospitality. When they give him coffee or help him to escape his old life by giving him a drink to change his scent

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    Censorship in Fahrenheit 451 In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ the people live in a society full of censorship. Montag‚ the main character of the story‚ is inspired by a young girl to question law around him and begins to have doubts about what good they serve. In Fahrenheit 451‚ censorship in the world consists of book burning‚ manipulative parlor families‚ and the intolerance of those who attempt to be an individual. Book burning in the story is done by firemen to supposedly

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    Fahrenheit 451 Essay

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    Nyonza Musinmguzi August 12‚ 2014 American Lit. English 11 Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a futuristic society where the government completely controls every aspect of life. There’s just one thing that the government is still trying to control and that is books. Guy’s job as a firefighter is too find books and set them on fire‚ till they are destroyed then put the fire out. Guy then meets his neighbor a bohemian seventeen year old that opens his eyes to the world

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