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    In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ the readers can feel and recognize the apprehensive and irony tone as reading. The author chooses the gloomy dark sky as the setting for the beginning of the book when Montag‚ the main character‚ starts meeting a teenager girl‚ Clarisse as a way to introduce and a little foreshadowing for the readers about this novel. For example‚ the firemen in this book are not those people who help prevent the fire or run the fire away‚ but they are the people who start

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    Fahrenheit 451 is the story of Guy Montag‚ a 30 year-old fireman in the future. Montag is uncontent with the world around him‚ but he doesn’t know what he should do about it. Montag is married to Mildred. Guy is a fireman. In this book firemen don’t put out fires they start them‚ mostly to burn books. When they burn the books‚ they also burn the houses and the people. The theme of dangerous censorship is effectively shown through setting‚ figurative language‚ and plot. One way dangerous censorship

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    beginning. I always found it ironic that you would become the symbol of rebirth‚ that you would be dubbed the phoenix. A coward really‚ but that was not my decision to make‚” he stopped and took a breath. “You were my mentor. When I was blind to the knowledge of books‚ you educated me; you showed me what I was missing. You were everything I could ever ask for. Granger was there for me‚ but you were there for me to the‚ I mean your‚ bitter end. I can remember when you were approached about the face of

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    1. What elements of dystopian literature are evident in Fahrenheit 451? A huge element of dystopian literature in Fahrenheit 451 is propaganda used to control the citizens of society. In the book‚ Montag escaped and found the college professors that are hiding out from the rest of society. After a long conversation he notices a portable TV and decides to watch TV to see the news. A few minutes into watching TV the announcers say “There’s Montag! The search is done”. It was a man walking on the street

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    Essay about Guy Montag Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag changes from a relatively "typical" fireman who follows the laws of his society into a person who challenges the laws and eventually becomes an "outcast". In the book Clarisse McClellan‚ the 17-years old girl‚ questions Montag about his life now and the life he has always lived. Near the start of the book Clarisse asks Montag "are you happy" (10)‚ a question that makes him admit later on that "he is not happy" (12). The fact

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    Fahrenheit 451” Description of Montag’s first day: The first day in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel „Fahrenheit 451“ seems like the Awakening of the protagonist Guy Montag. After fulfilling his duty as a fireman‚ what means that he has to burn books‚ he meets the 17-year old girl Clarisse McClellan‚ who changes his life. She reflects things and thoughts he has dissmissed in past‚ and asking him questions he is not able to answer. She‚ definitely a thinker and philosopher asks why‚ instead

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    Ray Bradbury puts motifs to represent and show the audience hints for what is going to happen. In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury‚ they live in a society they live is against the law to read books and use your imagination. Bradbury uses motifs. Motifs are symbols that are repeated throughout the story. It shows objects represent things. For example he uses fire‚ mirrors‚ and both alive and death. Bradbury used quite of few motifs. But why does he use them? I think he uses them to show the reads

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    In today’s world‚ many take the view that the future of society is in a constant downward spiral. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 shares the same views and even tackles many controversies spoken of in today’s world. Bradbury’s novel has the ability to impact today’s readers on a whole new level because of just how personal and real such a future seems to be for society today. Montag the main character‚ finds himself wondering why society is the way it is once as he chats with his wife Mildred. Mildred

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    Society can be twisted in a sort of way that produces a different kinds of individuals who think and feel differently that we do. “Fahrenheit 451” is a novel by Ray Bradbury is set in a different future than our own. Mildred who is the main character’s wife‚ is a perfect example of the effects of a cold controlling society on other people. Mildred is a self-centered‚ robotic‚ unfeeling person‚ and it’s by no fault of her own. Society has made Mildred self-centered. The society as Captain Beatty

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    say and do. Imagine a world without Shakespeare‚ Twain‚ Steinbeck or Harper Lee. If this world would contain the elements just listed‚ how would the world be impacted by the banning of books? This question is answered in Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451. Montag Guy‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ is one of many firemen in this dystopian society whose main job is to burn literature. Throughout the novel Montag starts to inquire about the value of his profession and his life. While he is struggling

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