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    The destruction of the Fahrenheit 451 society When major or even minor problems are found within a society‚ they can cause a huge meltdown and even the destruction of the whole society. In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ the society has to deal with some very big problems. The Fahrenheit 451 society was destroyed through its disregard human life‚ inability to think‚ and absence of imagination. In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ the society has to deal with some big problems that eventually

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    successful society. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 people don’t have knowledge because it is taken away from them. The people have no sense of thought so they do not know right from wrong or how to think for themselves. The characters that does have knowledge are considered anti-social or not normal. Bradbury describes how unusual life would be without knowledge. Bradbury expresses that knowledge is an important aspect in life and signified this in Fahrenheit 451. He also shows why knowledge is the

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    Lexi Wylie Burn In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451‚ in which books are illegal in society‚ Guy Montag holds a career as a fireman. Unlike firemen of today who fight fires‚ firemen in Fahrenheit 451 create fires in order to destroy books as well as the knowledge‚ individuality‚ and freedom they hold. Fire plays a crucial role in this novel‚ with Bradbury giving the story “impact and imaginative focus by means of symbolic fire” (Watt 2). As Watt puts it‚ fire is “Montag’s world

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    Novel Essay The society in Fahrenheit 451 successfully reflects our contemporary society in some aspects.The novel Fahrenheit 451 is about a society that prohibited reading books and a society with large media impact ( propaganda ). This classic novel by Ray Bradbury which won many books awards ‚ shows the negative effect in which a society can have without books. The contemporary society in some ways reflects this society from the government to the schools. The two society ( Fahrenheit 451 and the contemporary society ) show lack of reading 

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    The Value of Books The novel Fahrenheit 451 has a powerful message for readers in this day of age because of the similarities between our world and the novel’s. People can achieve knowledge about the downfall of society in a technology excelled‚ futuristic world through Fahrenheit 451. Even though the narrative is a story‚ it still contains truth about our world. Some will argue that fictional books such as Fahrenheit 451 are written simply for entertainment instead of representing the ideals of

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    book‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ their dystopian society meant there was no books so that everyone was equal‚ but this back-lashed on them. Fahrenheit 451 had a dystopian society written to scare us and show us some of our societies biggest fears‚ but what if this idea of dystopia has already presented itself upon our own society cloaked to many but visible to few. Do we strive for equality as surpassingly as they did in Fahrenheit 451? In the science-fiction book‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ by

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    Taylor Jansheski March 5‚ 2014 2nd Hour Advanced English Ray Bradbury’s graphic novel Fahrenheit 451 defines apathy. Apathy means‚" a lack of feelings or no emotions." In Fahrenheit 451 there is a community in the future that is not allowed to read books. Books are banned in the community as" illegal" because books give people theory and thought and could make people or the community go insane. People called "firemen" burn any books‚ instantly‚ that have been seen or reported‚ including

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    not‚ you still use books. They provide the information that is the basis of life; the everyday things. People that live in the communities of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry don’t have books. How do they live? It seems very hard to a person in today’s society to understand the lives of the people without books. In Fahrenheit 451 books are completely banned. The protagonist Guy Montag’s job is to burn books so that others can’t read them. Jonas‚ the protagonist of The Giver

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    In Fahrenheit 451‚ the large amount of technology used eventually drew people away from reading. Books that caused offense to minorities would be banned and‚ over time‚ each book would become banned until the government decided to outlaw books altogether. If they had done so‚ then you would assume that the schooling in this society wouldn’t be as exceptional as it could have been. Although the dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451 and our current society have many similarities

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Matthew Hart Nov. 12‚ 12 Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t provide a single‚ clear explanation of why books are banned in the future. Instead‚ it suggests that many different factors could combine to create this result. These factors can be broken into two groups: factors that lead to a general lack of interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. The novel doesn’t clearly distinguish these two developments. Apparently‚ they simply support

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