it livable‚ had retreated to their underground homes. It had been a decade‚ a lifetime since the city had been reduced to rubble. The radiation still lingered in the air. It added a new taste‚ similar to the taste of an orange or a lemon. The crater from the bomb had been filled with rainwater to form a lagoon. The river’s natural current carried away the radioactive debris to the forest where‚ undoubtedly‚ the creatures of the forest would drink the contaminated water. There had been an occasional
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In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ there is an obvious conflict between the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ and his boss‚ Captain Beatty. The conflict develops as Montag’s ideas do. Once Montag is introduced to Clarisse McClellan‚ he begins to reevaluate his beliefs toward his society. “You always said‚ don’t face a problem‚ burn it. Well‚ now I’ve done both.” (Bradbury 121) Montag was referring to Beatty. In Beatty’s eyes‚ books were the problem and instead of solving this so-called problem‚ he chose
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Do they really show their true emotions or are they hiding them behind a mask? Do they know what family is really or is it just a screen? Do they share emotions? Do they have conversations? In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shares similarities and differences involving the corruption of human interaction and gilded emotions. Our world and the dystopian society presented in F451 are very similar yet shares many differences especially within emotions and social interactions. Many people
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hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives!” “Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are?” “Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave.” “They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” “I don’t talk things‚ sir‚” “Italk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.” “This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!” “If I pick a substitute and Beatty does know
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believe that our own government these days has too much power and the people running it should be out of the whole deal. The book Fahrenheit 451 gives us a show of what the government can become. They take all the books and burn them so they can tell history how they want. Telling it from the side to make the people think it has always been that way. The first quote from the book‚ “If you don’t want a house built‚ hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically‚ don’t give him
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safety of the people‚ but because we are all free-willed not everyone can be made safe. The government has already used laws to minutely manipulate or free will‚ but would it be more beneficial to completely control our will to keep us safe? In Fahrenheit 451 the citizens are living in a false reality of happiness. Using drugs‚ the government has quelled the desires of citizens. The citizens are coaxed into wanting more menial things‚ and lacking dreams of career or personal success that most regular
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Changed Ways In the book‚ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ a fireman named Guy Montag goes from destroying books to preserving them. There are many reasons that influenced Montag’s decision to preserve books. Clarisse‚ who was one of Montag’s neighbors‚ is one of the main reasons why he began to wonder about books. Faber and an old woman are also important influences in Montag’s decision. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who is very odd and quite different. “I’m antisocial‚ they
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In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451‚ Montag is introduced as a firefighter. Every firefighter wears a helmet with the number 451 on it which symbolizes the degree at which books burn. Montag had always enjoyed the pleasure of burning books. The second line of the book says‚ “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things blackened and changed.” The joy of burning books and houses never escaped him‚ even at night when he went to sleep. One night after he hung up his helmet and slid down
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Two books that I have read this year are Of Mice and Men and Fahrenheit 451. These two books have characters that emerge out of a state of emergency. There were many reasons that triggered these characters actions‚ but the main one was that they both lived in a world in which the government censored their knowledge. While Guy Montag and V both emerge in similar ways‚ they both have their different roles in their world that lead them to their emergence. Montag is caused by first being a part of the
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Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel in which society is brainwashed and perturbed of their technological advancements and government. So much so that books are outlawed and firemen no longer control fires- but start them. The main protagonist; Guy Montag‚ is a firefighter whom meets an angelic crossroad that changes his outlook of society. With a burning passion for books and the mindset to prolong the life of the books; he sets out to cherish every book he can obtain. Even if it means going against
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