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    (SIP-A) Mildred has been so obsessed with all her electronics that she has developed a non communication relationship with Montag. (STEWE-1)” ’Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. ‘That’s my family.’ ‘Will you turn it off for a sick man?’ ‘I’ll turn it down’ “ (46). Mildred yet again shows the consequences of focusing on almost only electronics. She is so addicted that she refuses to turn

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    himself in the world besides when he’s on the ship. Yank meets Mildred Douglas who is a daughter of a rich man. Mildred goes through the same identity crisis. Mildred is a woman who has been projected as a lady willing to work for the humanity. After meeting Mildred‚ Yanks learns that he is stuck in the so called class trap where the lack of education and wealth is important for being in the high class ring. Together Yank and Mildred share the sense of belonging and undergo the search for status

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    is about a fireman named Montag who learns about the journey of books. The overall mood of the characters is unhappy‚ with the exception of three memorable character named Clarisse‚ Granger‚ and Montag. All of the other characters such as Faber‚ Mildred‚ and Beatty are all unhappy. Americans today sometimes suffer the cruel symptoms that infect the fictional society in Fahrenheit 451. Despite the very deficient world set in the novel three characters still have the will power to overlook

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    what they had before worked just as well as the new. In the book‚ Mildred wanted another wall of TV. She didn’t care of the price that it was going to cost and what it was going to take to get it. “It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the forth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the forth wall torn out and a fourth wall- TV put in? It’s only about two thousand dollars” (Bradbury 20). Mildred did not care the cost of the wall- TV even though it was one- third

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    On July 11‚ 1958 a couple of hours after midnight‚ Richard Loving a white man and Mildred Loving an African American woman were awakened to the presence of three officers in their bedroom. One of the three officers demanded from Richard to identify the woman next to him. Mildred‚ full of fear‚ told the officers that she was his wife‚ while Richard pointed to the marriage license on the wall. The couple was then charged and later found guilty in violation of the state ’s anti-miscegenation statute

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    When Montag arrives home from Faber’s house‚ Mildred and the two women‚ Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles‚ were there watching the T.V. parlors. He begins to become frustrated and start discussing books. He releases his anger by reading a poem‚ Dover Beach‚ to them. “I knew it would happen! I’ve always said

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    started questioning him. She also asks Montag if he and his wife Mildred love each other. At first‚ he denies it by saying “I am‚ very much in love!” (20) He asks Mildred where they first met‚ showing he was really affected by this question. When she gives him no response‚ he feels a little hurt. This shows me that Clarisse almost stirred a sudden realization that something was missing in his life. I also think that his question to Mildred shows that he was still in a bit of denial. He was almost trying

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    to question life‚ and started to think for himself‚ Mildred would try talk him out of it‚bring him down to her level. Even when Clariise died‚ her reaction was of world that robbed of joy. She had two friends who was much like her named‚ Clara Phelps and Ann Bowles. I guess misery loves company. Mildred was a materialistic‚ depressed and inches away from causing her own sudiuce‚ and not caring about tomorrow. In today’s society it’s more Mildred than ever‚ but instead of just television‚ we have phones

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    this quote‚ Montag is speaking to his wife‚ Mildred. Montag is going on about books and how amazed he is by them. This makes Mildred very uncomfortable because books are seen as evil to the majority of the people‚ and she asks Montag to leave her alone. Now Montag responds by telling her that they need to be really bothered by something important and real sometimes; that it is important to feel these intense emotions. The world that Montag and Mildred live in delivers immediate happiness with instantaneous

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    Bradbury has created. It more closely focuses on the home and life he shares with his wife‚ Mildred. This symbolism is ironic because the hearth is seen as warm and welcoming – a place for the family to gather‚ eat and bond. Montag’s house is not described as such; Bradbury even compares it to a tomb at one point (an obvious point of foreshadowing) right before Montag enters the bedroom he shares with Mildred to find that she has attempted to take her own life. The contrast depicted between Montag’s

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