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    societal concerns. All through the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury shows that people do not intermingle with each other. People‚ like Mildred‚ are alienating themselves just to stay home and watch T.V. shows. In Mildred’s case‚ she is always watching the “relatives” just to distract herself from interacting with the truth and experiencing the actual reality. Mildred is only concern about herself to the point that she does not say farewell to her husband. Today‚ teenagers are always on social media

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    perfect. Readers soon realize it is simply a muddle. This theme is very common in Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Bradbury sets the scene to where readers think life in America in the 21st century is ideal‚ but after the unexpected suicide attempt by Mildred‚ readers begin to realize that these characters may have many materials but that does not make one happy. In fact it only makes them suffer more.

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    good side of themselves‚ and the happiness that they receive from getting those likes is fake; if they are not their true selves on the Internet‚ then the happiness they receive cannot be true happiness. For example‚ in the novel Fahrenheit 451‚ Mildred has taken the façade that she would have used over the Internet and applied it to her everyday life‚ therefore she is never her true self and always shows her perfect side to others‚ no matter what. This is shown after she tries to overdose on sleeping

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    Restorative Justice Restorative justice is a phrase that is known only in small‚ concentrated pockets of the United States and other parts of the world. It is well known in alternative dispute resolution circles and in juvenile courts. Restorative justice‚ versus punitive justice‚ aims to heal‚ restore and reconcile‚ while punitive justice seeks punishment and revenge. Examples of restorative justice are‚ healing circles‚ transformational justice‚ transformative mediation‚ some collaborative

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    “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more." (Bradbury 61). Ray Bradbury shows how the government in the world of Fahrenheit 451 keeps its citizens ’happy’‚ swaying them away from politics and negative things that they think might affect them in some way. "It was a pleasure to burn."(Bradbury 7). This is how Bradbury introduces Guy Guy and the life of a fireman‚ he describes what the job and life style of a fireman

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    Elena Moya Mrs. Fayter English 10 Honors January 16‚ 2011 Montag Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Physical Charcoal hair soft-colored brows and blush ash smeared checks‚ an unshaven look Looks like all the other fire fighters Emotional At the beginning Montag was content and satisfied with his job and life After meeting Clarisse he became confused Admitted he is unhappy He feels a deep sense of guilt and pain because of the condition of society Intellectual It was Montag curiosity

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    English I Patrick Rojvall Study Guide Questions for Fahrenheit 451 Answer the following questions in paragraph form. These questions should act as a reading guide and are not intended to replace careful reading of the novel’s themes and development. Part I: The Hearth and the Salamander (pages 3-14) 1. What do the "fireman" do for a living? For a living the “fireman” burns books and occasionally some people‚ if they are with the book. It’s quite different

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    The guardians of this threshold‚ is Beatty and Mildred. Beatty is a guardian because he countless times scolded Montag about how books are bad. Mildred because she tried to get Guy Montag to get rid of the books. “He caught her‚ shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him‚ scratching.” But‚ Montag did have helpers. He had his mentor

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    It’s a normal day‚ just getting off of work and smelling the perfume. I have loved how the kerosene smells on me. I was a fireman‚ a fireman who burned books for a living. I followed in my family’s footsteps and became a fireman‚ that only burnt books. Which soon turned into having to burn buildings because they contained books. Paper burned at 451 degrees fahrenheit. Burning books always seemed to make me happy. Ray Bradbury wanted people to know the good between bad. There were some very nice

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    Kathy Szelag LAS 246 04/19/2016 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was a dystopian novel that presented a future American society where books were outlawed and "firemen" came to burn outlawed possessions that they found. In this society‚ its frowned upon if people actually engage with one another and they walk on the side walk. Emotions and feelings are seemed as valueless and society discounts and strips away emotions. In the beginning of the novel‚ the reader was introduced to the protagonist

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