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    World vs. Synthetic World Throughout Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury placed many contrasting descriptions of "not dead‚ not alive" creatures (page 135). He described the mechanical hound as neither machine

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    2/9/08 - Paul K. The Maltese Falcon Comparison Samuel Spade of The Maltese Falcon novel by Dashiell Hammett is quite different from Samuel Spade of “The Maltese Falcon” motion picture. The book was written a good decade before that version of the movie was produced and in a much more casual time period. The novel focuses on making Sam out to be a more complex character than the movie does. He is not just “the good guy” as he is portrayed more so in the movie. The time period may have had a lot

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    Fahrenheit 451 - Essay questions Choose one of the following topics and write a five-paragraph essay using at least six examples from the novel (at least four of which need to be direct quotations) to prove your thesis. There should be a clear thesis and topic with specific examples from the book. You also need to explain your examples. It should be evident from your essay that you have read and understood the novel. Any evidence of plagiarism will result in an automatic zero. The essay will

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    Similarly‚ Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451‚ this society in the future is disconnected with one another. In the society where firemen burn books‚ Montag is a firemen who believes books might reconnect society again. He believes with the help of an old english professor‚ Faber‚ and himself can help reconnect society once again. A few obstacles appear‚ causing Montag to run out of the city meeting others like him‚ believing society one day might need the help of books to be fix everything. Bradbury

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    Without happiness‚ sadness cannot exist. In today’s society‚ happiness and sadness coexist and form an unbreakable bond. In Ray Bradbury’s bookFahrenheit 451‚ that bond does not exist. In this book‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ desperately wants to be happy; but society tells him to stay neutral. Montag realizes that he never really happily married his wife when he meets a clever girl named Clarisse McClellan. Montag breaks free of society’s expectations with the help of Clarisse‚ by learning

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    me to shoo him away?” “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around‚ but there isn’t anybody!” “He might come and burn the house and the ‘family.’ That’s awful! Think of our investment.” “What about Clarisse McClellan‚ where do we look for her? The morgue! Listen!” “How in the 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

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    fear; a time of prosperity and a time of unease; a time of conformity and a time of rebellion; a time of renewed religion and a time of widespread materialism” (Shmoop Editorial Team). In Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury uses self-contradictory sentences and situations to express his message about society. In this book‚ the author is tenacious in using paradoxes to expose how people in the 1950s lived a blurred and less-than-mediocre life. Given these points: In the 1950s‚ there was an unsurpassed rush

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    Although in both movies and the book "Frankenstein" is portrayed as a monster there are many different perceptions about of him. In movies the monster will not stop at anything he was only out to hurt or destroy others as appose to the book where he tried to make friends and find someone to cherish and love. The book and movie both show different characteristics which the monster possesses and how they directly or indirectly relate to one another. In the movie‚ "Frankenstein" has a green complexion

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    In the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ all of society follows public opinions without asking a question. Everybody‚ even the wife of the main character‚ follows these opinions which include hurting children and telling the police about any of the laws your own family breaks. This dystopia only creates distrust and sadness throughout the story. The world in Fahrenheit 451 originated with individuals believing in their public opinion and shared it

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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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