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    The “Veldt” written By Ray Bradbury has many craft moves. The craft moves that are most commonly used in the story and the ones that draw the reader in are dialogue‚ similes‚ and personification. These are all shown when the house that has a nursery in it makes the kids hopeless. The house does everything for the kids and they aren’t able to do any real world stuff after they got the house. Ray Bradbury uses dialogue to draw out a conversation between the characters in the story. For example “George

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    In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451‚ written in the 1950’s‚ a future society’s relationship with technology is eerily predicted. In this society the government has made it illegal to own or read books. The novel involves a fireman‚ Guy Montag‚ who has set fire to houses that contain book his entire life. Later on‚ Montag begins reading books he has stolen over a period of time‚ and eventually he rebels against the government. Bradbury’s novel explores how technology affects society’s happiness

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    control over the masses and the anti-intellectual act of book burning the protagonist initially enjoys so much. In Bradbury’s dystopian novel culture is repressed as a collective decision by the society. The spiritual and cultural death depicted in Ray Bradbury’s acclaimed work of fiction Fahrenheit 451 is evident of being the byproduct of a culture plagued by self-induced ignorance. Fahrenheit 451 is a tale of the few who refused to assimilate in an intellectually repressed society. Rather they

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    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 helpful people in the society along with some people who were mean and rude like Beaty. “Kerosene.” he said‚ because the silence had lengthened‚ is nothing but perfume to me

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    FAHRENHEIT 451 – CRITICAL RESPONSE In Fahrenheit 451‚ Beatty exists as a paradoxical character which has a profound knowledge from the books he burnt but is still against the keeping of these intellectual products. Skillfully‚ Ray Bradbury has built up the important villain through whose arguments we can look at more aspects of the existence of books in our society‚ or generally the maintenance of knowledge. In the conversation between Beatty and The Montags‚ the fireman captain

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    Throughout the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury portrayal of mass media and technology as a veil that obscures real interactions and experiences with human beings and interferes with the characters’ ability to think deeply about their lives and societal issues proves he would be dismayed with modern technology. Bradbury believes that social media cages its users from knowing what is happening in the outside world. However‚ when one comprehends and understands books‚ he portrays that by connecting

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    societies. Dystopias are typically supposed to scare the reader‚ yet there is a sense of comfort because of the fact that it is purely fictional. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ this novel’s setting is a complex dystopia where not a soul is truly happy‚ family isn’t certain and society doesn’t allow someone to be true to themselves. In this novel by Ray Bradbury‚ self-worth and personal happiness is hard to come by. No one is truly happy or‚ for that matter‚ content with the way they are living or what

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    Dystopian literature and texts gives us the power to become critical of who we are as a society. Ray Bradbury wrote a dystopia called Fahrenheit 451. In his dystopia he commented on the flaws in the current society and the flaws that might have happened in the future. He commented about our flaws through his style in his book. The style that he used was. One of the societal flaws that Bradbury comments on is how technology is going to control our lives and we won’t do anything without technology

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    the rising action starts within the first few pages of the book. Montag meets and speaks to his neighbor’s daughter‚ Clarisse. As they walk home he realizes she is different‚ and as they are walking in their homes‚ she asks him “Are you happy?” (Bradbury). While this seems like a simple question‚ it starts the action for the entire story. From that point on Montag wonders if he is truly happy. The rising action keeps going when Montag has discovered his wife tried to overdose and he must call for

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    Task 2 – Short answer In the extract from the novel Fahrenheit 451 we are acquainted with two characters; Guy Montag‚ a working fireman‚ and Clarisse McClellan‚ his new neighbour. We are only presented a short part of a dialog‚ although it is possible to understand much of the seemingly futuristic setting the story is set in. Admittedly‚ I have not read the book‚ nor have I ever herd about it‚ but I do feel that I have managed to get a general gist of what the theme is about. Partway

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