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    Area 51 is known by a lot of people yet there is very little information about it. Just like one of the main elements in Fahrenheit 451‚ Area 51 is a common example of censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a very interesting and appealing story because it contains several different themes that tie around to censorship. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is a great example of censorship because the society is very clueless to what is happening due to the censorship taking place. They contain all this futuristic

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    In both Fahrenheit 451 and the movie 2081 the authors desire a world in which everyone is equal. In the movie 2081 Vonnegut tries to issue equality among the people in society by making the strong wear weights‚ the beautiful wear masks and by making the intelligent wear head pieces. In the book Fahrenheit 451 the people have eliminated books so that no one is smarter than someone else. The society has eliminated teaching children in school how to question things‚ and instead just focuses on memorizing

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    Fahrenheit 451 is based on a society in the future‚ where technology is empowering. Books of all kinds are burned to ashes. Firefighters no longer put fires out‚ but start them instead. Guy Montag was a firefighter himself. In a world where fire and the smell of kerosene bring pleasure‚ Montag needed someone like Clarisse to introduce him to happiness. While coming home from work one day‚ Montag runs into Clarisse Mcclellan. He notices her because she is doing something very different. She was enjoying

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    F451 Dialectic Journal |Chapter |Passage |Significance | |1 |“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things |There is absolute pleasure when eating something. When something changes‚ it could| | |blackened and changed.” Narrator page 3 |end up good or bad. However‚ when something is blackened‚

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    Daniela Zuniga Ms.shemitz November 25‚ 2013 Period 6 Book Report #1 Character: Guy Montag Guy Montag is the main character who works as a firefighter doing the ironic. Instead of doing duty of putting out fire‚ he starts them‚ but he can’t be blamed for his duty. He was raised to believe and follow society and not question. Guy is a very determined‚ confused‚ rebellious‚ and is an eager for knowledge character. His determination is shown when he refuses to give up the books he

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    Montag spends the rest of the rainy afternoon uneasily reading through books while Millie sits idly. As he reads‚ Montag is often reminded of Clarisse. Meanwhile‚ the already edgy couple is alarmed by a scratching at the door. Millie dismisses it as "just a dog"‚ but Montag knows it is the Mechanical Hound. Luckily‚ the Hound leaves without causing a disturbance. Millie whines that there is no reason to read books and that that their house will be burned down if anyone finds out. Montag responds

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    Humans have been revolving around devices for the past decade‚ and there are many advancements that are hurting people’s lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451‚ the author‚ Ray Bradbury‚ warns people about the bad things technology can cause. He uses many different aspects to show the terrible effects. Similarly‚ today people are losing many of their necessary characteristics because of automation. Ray Bradbury incorporates the warning of futuristic technology by using the ideas of privacy breach‚ antisocial

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    Although Bradbury’s novel is about a time in the not-too distant future‚ Fahrenheit 451 closely reflects the composers concerns within the 1950’s. Bradbury replicates a number of recent historical events within the era‚ in which he based Fahrenheit 451 when he wrote and published the book. Central ideas of this period are imitated through the social control‚ conformity and government censorship illustrated within the text. While Bradbury writes about the sound of jet fighters crossing the sky in

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    Task 2 – Short answer In the extract from the novel Fahrenheit 451 we are acquainted with two characters; Guy Montag‚ a working fireman‚ and Clarisse McClellan‚ his new neighbour. We are only presented a short part of a dialog‚ although it is possible to understand much of the seemingly futuristic setting the story is set in. Admittedly‚ I have not read the book‚ nor have I ever herd about it‚ but I do feel that I have managed to get a general gist of what the theme is about. Partway

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    After only nine days at a dime-an-hour typewriter‚ Ray Bradbury wrote his award-winning novel Fahrenheit 451 and successfully saw it published in 1953 (Kipen). Bradbury lived through World War II and heard of the Nazi’s burning of all books written by Jews. This destruction of knowledge began to scare Bradbury and reminded him of the destruction of the library of Alexandria. These stories‚ histories‚ thoughts‚ and values were all gone. The persecuted people were being told what they could and

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