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    Mindless and Obeying Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features a fictional and futuristic firefighter named Guy Montag. As a firefighter‚ Montag does not put out fires. Instead‚ he starts them in order to burn books and‚ basically‚ knowledge to the human race. He does not have any second thoughts about his responsibility until he meets seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan. She reveals many wonders of the world to Montag and causes him to rethink what he is doing in burning books. After his talks

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    Real World Censorship Through the Pen of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury drew inspiration for his fiction work‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ from the political and social issues which confronted his generation. By fast forwarding his setting a hundred years into the future‚ Bradbury was able to effectively represent a governmental system which was rife with fear and directed much of its apprehension onto the people which they swore to serve. In Bradbury’s generation‚ more than any other‚ the extent and power of

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    Caleb Fayani Ms. Piña World Studies 10/30/12 Fahrenheit 451 Themes In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ there are many themes but one theme that we can relate to is; “too much technology can ruin relationships”. Ray Bradbury talks about how technology ruined the lives of Montag and his wife Mildred. "Will you turn the parlour off?" he asked. "That’s my family" (1.493-4). Mildred treats the television as if it is her very own family and does

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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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    active and have everything at the push of a button. In Fahrenheit 451‚ books were being outlawed because the material within them was too “complex‚” and so it offended those who did not understand it‚ which happened to be the majority. We are living in a world were political correctness is at an all time high and if something offends you‚ you can simply drown in out with your headphones. This is the same reason the books were outlawed in Fahrenheit 451. Friends in the story also seemed to be connected

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    Fahrenheit 451: Allusion Essay Imagining a society that sets limits to a person’s life and prohibits them from being independent can be difficult. In this novel‚ people live in a society where they are not allowed to think independently and literature is banned. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ is a very fascinating novel about a fireman named Guy Montag who takes pride in his job which is to burn books. Montag meets Clarisse‚ a seventeen-year old girl who changes his way of looking at the world

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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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    asked in the book “Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury” to a man named Guy Montag‚ a fireman‚ not the fireman who fight fires‚ But rather starts them... “Are you happy?” she said. “Am i what?” he cried…. of course i’m happy what does she think? i’m “not”?... He felt his smile slide away‚melt‚ fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin‚ like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness… He was not happy. People in that society were censored and

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    Fahrenheit 451 Essay In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the protagonist of the novel Montag‚ represents a symbolic character throughout the novel. The catalyst of the novel Clarisse jolts Montag into awareness. Both of these characters in the novel represent certain types of people. Montag represents the people that are destructive in society but as the novel progresses he changes to an understanding person. Clarisse represents the inquisitive people and does not change throughout

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    Society can Change a Person Jones In reading class were reading Fahrenheit 451 and character name Mildred is very self-centered‚ robotic‚ and unfeeling. Another character named Captain Beatty explained why she like this or why society is like that. Why is mildred is so robotic is that she didn’t have to work for anything; everything was given to her. Also she have a routine that she that she follow everyday. Captain Beatty say that “ all this started with the civil war. People used to not get

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