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    Common Themes of Fahrenheit 451 Individual self-expression is important: Example 1: “‘I’m still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.’” Pg 21 This quote came from Clarisse‚ she talks about her enjoyment of the rain and expresses herself. She admits to being “crazy” in the world they live in but she is written as a happy person. A person who feels‚ not just survives. Example 2: “‘The comfortable people want only wax moon faces‚ poreless‚ hairless‚ expressionless.’” Pg 83 This is

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    Rashmeet Kaur Mrs. Falato 8th grade Advanced Language Arts 25 August 2010 Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ is divided into three sections. The title of each section has a meaning relevant to the story. The first section being‚ “The Hearth and the Salamander” also has a significance. When fire was first discovered‚ it was used for good things‚ like for warmth‚ cooking food‚ etc. for those people‚ fire was essentially a savior‚ and it represented comfort and survival. Hence‚ the

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows how everyone in a society can be very similar and how it stunts the growth of the community. Being a fireman‚ Montag takes on the role of burning books and erasing knowledge from his community. The society took away the privilege of reading books a long time ago to ensure that everyone received the same information and that nobody would be smarter than anyone else. This made people very closed off to new ideas and materials given to them. People thought that being

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    Author of the popular book series A Song of Ice and Fire once said‚ “I try to make readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed‚ you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just got more popcorn‚ it’s a superficial experience isn’t it.” When a character dies in a story there is a sort of shock the reader receives when that death actually happens. Although Clarisse died very early in the book‚ most people

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    on me. I was a fireman‚ a fireman who burned books for a living. I followed in my family’s footsteps and became a fireman‚ that only burnt books. Which soon turned into having to burn buildings because they contained books. Paper burned at 451 degrees fahrenheit. Burning books always seemed to make me happy. Ray Bradbury wanted people to know the good between bad. There were some very nice helpful people in the society along with some people who were mean and rude like Beaty. “Kerosene.” he said

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    is your prize for finishing the game they are both meaningless. I Believe that there are differences and similarities in today’s society and Fahrenheit 451`s ‚ because of missing quality of information and the blurred distinction between life and death. The society in Fahrenheit 451 is very different from our society today . For example in Fahrenheit 451 Beatty says “the people in these books never lived come on now (Bradbury pg35).” This shows that beatty reacts differently to books than people

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    and you know how much your life sucks but you don’t do anything about it? In Fahrenheit 451 composed by Ray Bradbury‚ Guy Montag is the main protagonist who lives within a dystopian world where books are being burned because the government wants everyone to be happy and doing so has ruined the culture of their world. A poem named Dover Beach by Ray Arnold has many themes of which are built off of in the novel Fahrenheit 451. In Dover Beach an unnamed guy compares our live to the ocean‚ and how the

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    Most adolescents and adults find the idea of an invasion by aliens or robots superseding mankind as intriguing possibilities. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury describes an America in the future in a different‚ more realistic light the government bans reading and war plagues society. Whether a work of science fiction portrays a theme of a post-apocalyptic world or the mutation of human characteristics‚ authors base their work on reality. In today’s world‚ while technology certainly brings benefits

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    12.31.13 Fahrenheit 451/The Truman Show Essay The novel Fahrenheit 451 and the film The Truman Show have many similarities. The setting‚ characters‚ themes‚ conflicts‚ and plot of Fahrenheit 451 all have many distinct characteristics that allow for the novel to be compared with this particular movie. The ideas of characters‚ setting and conflicts are very similar and give you a different perspective on each work. The Truman Show and Fahrenheit 451 are very similar in that the main

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    The world in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is very different than ours. There are similarities between our normal way of life compared to the book‚ some other things are the complete opposite. The major things that are different are the fire departments‚ love‚ and governmental leadership. These qualities of their society separate them from our way of life. In our modern society‚ firemen put out fires‚ and save peoples lives. They are the ones who will let you out of a trapped elevator

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