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    country listening to other people’s rules. Phenomenons occur when we defy the odds. In the book Fahrenheit 451 it is prohibited by the government to own any form of literature. A man named Guy Montag starts a movement in an attempt to rescue literature. If Guy would’ve followed the rules the world would’ve stayed exactly the same and wouldn’t have developed any. Without rule-breakers the people in Fahrenheit 451 would never get to experience the blessing

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    English November 07‚ 2012 Siddhartha VS. Fahrenheit 451 Siddhartha and Fahrenheit 451 are very similar in some ways and very different in others this essay will talk about some of these similarities and some of the differences. In order to understand the two books we must first write a detailed summary of them. Once that is done then we can get into the similarities of the two good books‚ and finally the differences of Siddhartha and Fahrenheit 451. In Siddhartha‚ the main character Siddhartha

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    Not knowing things is sometimes an award‚ but it can also be a curse. The same idea is applied to the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where the government often hides the truth from the people. They do this to keep everyone happy since they think if you do not know about something‚ you do not have to worry about it. Some people can accept this standard of living‚ but others feel as if they are missing something like the main character Guy Montag felt as he learned more about books. Montag developed

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    Happiness is fundamental and important to all human beings. Happiness is defined as the state in which an individual feels pleasure and fortune. It is not measurable‚ yet everyone seeks it. In Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451‚ happiness is defined by technology. In this imagined society‚ technological tools fascinate most of the people – they desire them and practically dream about them. Technological objects are the dominant idea that is present within them and that constantly provokes them to do

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    materialistic gain‚ the value of education can be easily diminished. Society today pressures its members to consume and neglect the importance of obtaining knowledge. However‚ even with an abundance of materialistic goods‚ the feelings of internal and intellectual poverty remain. This void cannot be satisfied by physical goods‚ but by cognitive nourishment. Although ignorance may be considered bliss‚ In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ without free thought‚ social interaction‚ and the questioning of authority

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    SECTION A –(1) On one day‚ after watching the movie named “Fahrenheit 451” in the English class‚ I started to thinking about what we are calling happiness . I browsed the web and came across this quotation “ Happiness is a positive range of emotions that we feel when we are content or full of joy” ‚which is Cocacola ‘s definition . Then‚ I reminded of Beatty’s saying in the film ”Cram them full of noncombustible data‚ chock them so damned full full of facts they feel stuffed…then they’ll get

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    Society can be twisted in a sort of way that produces a different kinds of individuals who think and feel differently that we do. “Fahrenheit 451” is a novel by Ray Bradbury is set in a different future than our own. Mildred who is the main character’s wife‚ is a perfect example of the effects of a cold controlling society on other people. Mildred is a self-centered‚ robotic‚ unfeeling person‚ and it’s by no fault of her own. Society has made Mildred self-centered. The society as Captain Beatty

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    out knowledge”. Boorstin believes that technology is fun and is helpful to society‚ but technology can be overused and can take over our knowledge‚ which can take over our thoughts‚ feelings‚ and emotions. Nowadays most people prefer reading online rather than reading a print book‚ which has changed our society today in numerous helpful‚ yet hazardous ways. Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451 interprets what our society will be later on due to the overuse of technology‚ and the lack of reading print

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    There is greatly amount of themes that could come to mind when people talk about Fahrenheit 451. The definition of a theme would be overall moral of the story. One person may say one thing another person might say something a whole lot different theme than that person. Everyone would not have the same theme. It might be on the same route but not the same thing. The theme in this story is that knowledge can change the way life is lived. Two literary elements to support this theme is conflict and

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    Essay about Guy Montag Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag changes from a relatively "typical" fireman who follows the laws of his society into a person who challenges the laws and eventually becomes an "outcast". In the book Clarisse McClellan‚ the 17-years old girl‚ questions Montag about his life now and the life he has always lived. Near the start of the book Clarisse asks Montag "are you happy" (10)‚ a question that makes him admit later on that "he is not happy" (12). The fact

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