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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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    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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    Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 Responses 1. The significance of Montag seeing his reflection in Clarisse’s eyes is that it shows that Clarisse is different. She is special. In this dystopia that Ray Bradbury has made‚ Clarisse is the one unique part of the society‚ the “flaw.” 2. In the childhood memory that Clarisse caused Montag to recall‚ Montag was a child and the power went out in his house. Montag’s mother had lit a candle. He found an “hour of rediscovery‚ of such illumination that space lost

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    Research Essay In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty‚ there are multiple attributes for character comparison as evidence by their tenacious‚ heroic‚ and passionate efforts to obtain their hearts’ desires. In Fahrenheit 451‚ protagonist Guy Montag rebels against his duty to burn books in order to savor the knowledge for the benefit of all humanity. In "A Worn Path‚" protagonist Phoenix endures a treacherous journey‚ overcoming adversity with her old age in order to

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    The novel Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ revolves around the life of Guy Montag‚ who is living in a time when society not only bans books‚ but burns them. People in this society spend their life in front of a screen‚ disconnected from their true feelings and emotions. Clarisse‚ however‚ is a seventeen year old girl who is different from others in her society. Unlike teenagers her age‚ Clarisse spends most of the time observing the people and places around her‚ as she sometimes rides“…the subway

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    In Fahrenheit 451‚ time goes by faster because of all the time that is spent on technology. Our society is becoming more and more like the society in the book because people are becoming more addicted to the technology when we should be paying attention to our surroundings in the real world. The society in Fahrenheit 451‚ is so occupied on their phones that they don’t have a notice of time. Today’s society has became very similar and is going to lead to worse in the future. As it says in the book

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    The Manipulation of Knowledge: Fahrenheit 451 and The Book of Negroes In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ and Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes‚ accessing and oppressing a person’s mind is an efficient way of exerting power in a society. In Fahrenheit 451 and The Book of Negroes‚ the way the government and slave traders choose to exert power shows that reducing a person’s self- knowledge and then substituting that knowledge with a false identity is an effective way of controlling the mind

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