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    Name_________________Date________Period__________ Fahrenheit 451 Anticipation Guide Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree. Write one to two sentences explaining your thoughts about each statement. There are not right or wrong answers! 1. Laws are always written for the protection of the citizens. 2. Some books are evil and should be destroyed. 3. In a world filled with constant‚ 24-hour news‚ there are no true facts. (Things keep changing.) 4. If it was

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    Fahrenheit 451 Essay In this essay I will discuss three major changes in Montag over the course of the story. Montag becomes kinder and more self-conscious. After serious self-conflictions arise due to his conversations with his neighbor‚ Clarisse‚ he decides to “switch sides.” He took another big leap‚ deciding to act on his feelings and to stand up against the corrupt government. Montag becomes kinder; he sees the self-destructing depressed people and Instead of merely moving on in his life and

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    FARHENHEIT 451 ESSAY Technology makes our lives easier‚ generates ease and saves our time but we cannot ignore the ewq Although Bradbury’s technology is more advanced than ours‚ we too are becoming a world consumed by technology advancements. Our society is similarly addicted to television and not as many people are choosing to read for leisure anymore‚ especially when the TV is readily accessible and seamlessly addicting. Furthermore‚ novels and plays are being made into motion pictures left

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    Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ Mildred is the wife of the main character‚ Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred self centered‚ robotic‚ & unfeeling. First off‚ Mildred is self centered because she wants self happiness. Mildred just wants to be happy. In the text‚ Captain Beatty states‚ “That’s all we live for‚ Isn’t it? For pleasure‚ for titillation?” Life is about making others happy‚ Mildred was obsessed with self happiness.

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    Spiritual redemption inspired by books and oppressive government in Fahrenheit 451         People start to think about rebellion when the government rules people tyrannically for a long time‚ trying to control people’s thoughts in a forceful way. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury describes a dystopian society where no one is allowed to read books or think freely. The government’s strong control of people’s minds infuriated Montag so much that he even abandoned the job that his father and grandfather

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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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    At the time that Fahrenheit 451 was written‚ everyone feared communism. People were burning books that were thought to contain communist ideas. This was known as the Red Scare in America. The same controversy was explained through Montag’s world. The government was controlling their people by depriving them of their knowledge and burning books that contained that knowledge. They also made their people mindless with technology. The Sea-Shell Radio’s that the government gave everyone and the constant

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    in the world‚ more so in the developed nations. Suicide rates are highest in the Baltic states‚ such as Lithuania‚ Belarus‚ and Russia. The suicide rate in the US is half that in Russia (30‚000 compared to 60‚000). Since the time Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451‚ the suicide rate in the US has nearly tripled. Almost 11‚600 people took their own lives in 1950 (Suicide Rates by 100‚000). Suicide rates parallel with levels of unhappiness in these countries. The Happy Planet Index‚ which rates countries based

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    In Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character is an individual Montag seeks pleasure in his job as a book burner. Through imagery‚ metaphors‚ symbolism‚ and personification‚ Ray Bradbury conveys that Montag is a man who has a sense of adoration towards his job. Ray Bradbury uses figures of speech such as imagery and metaphors to express how Montag is an impassioned man. Bradbury says that it was a “pleasure” for Mantag to “see things” he burns to be “blackened and changed.” The

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    Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that describes a terrifying future in which the jobs of firemen are to find and burn books. If I was faced with this situation and I could choose three books to save‚ they would be The Holy Bible‚ the inspired word of God‚ which teaches and inspires our lives‚ the SAS Survival Handbook: The Definitive Survival Guide by John Wiseman‚ so I could obtain knowledge to live in all situations and The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss because it is fun to read. I would select The Holy

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