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    dieting.” perfectly describes the appearance of Mildred Montag in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Mildred is Guy Montag’s wife.  They married at the age of 20. Mildred’s appearance shows society’s impact on artificial outer beauty. Mildred characterizes mediocrity and banality. Mildred is a stubborn and independent character. She doesn’t change very much‚ because she isolates herself from her surroundings. Some things she has done has made Montag change his mindset‚ such as at the beginning of the book

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    Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future and is of a dystopian society where reading and possessing books was made illegal.To take care of this problem the government has made the jobs of firemen to set books on fire rather than to put out fires.The main character Guy Montag is a firefighter that was going through the motions in life and doing his job until his views and ideas were changed. He begins to question the ways of society and ultimately becomes in his own way a hero. People are capable

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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book about a new age firemen named Guy Montag who learns the importance of thinking for oneself . Throughout the story montag changes his opinion on books by interacting with different people in the story . In Fahrenheit 451 the main character Guy Montag has changed his whole opinion on books. In the beginning of the novel Guy Montag believes books are bad and evil .He also believes everyone who reads books are this as well.” It was a pleasure to burn”

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    novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 is considered one of Bradbury’s best works. The main character “Guy Montag” is an average citizen in his average town. In this dystopian time era books are frowned upon by society enough to ruin one another’s lives completely. Montag fills the occupation referred to as a “fire man”‚ fire men burn down houses if they contain books. However Montag thoroughly enjoys his job until a 17 year old girl named Clarisse befriends Montag. Despite

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    government‚ and he wants to read books. Montag was a regular guy doing exactly what he was told to do burn books. Montag starts questioning as to why books are bad and why they need to be burned. Curiosity got the best of Montag making him heroic in the sense that he refuses to comply the government’s rules‚ which makes him an outcast because he wants to save the books. Montag doesn’t want to burn books anymore he wants to stand up for them. His whole life Montag has been burning books until he meets

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    Montag spends the rest of the rainy afternoon uneasily reading through books while Millie sits idly. As he reads‚ Montag is often reminded of Clarisse. Meanwhile‚ the already edgy couple is alarmed by a scratching at the door. Millie dismisses it as "just a dog"‚ but Montag knows it is the Mechanical Hound. Luckily‚ the Hound leaves without causing a disturbance. Millie whines that there is no reason to read books and that that their house will be burned down if anyone finds out. Montag responds

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    In Fahrenheit 451Montag changes by the end of the novel because at the beginning of the novel‚ Montag was very content and happy with his job as a fireman and his life in general and never questioned it‚ but as Montag met new people and experienced different situations‚ he realizes that he is not happy and was questioning many things‚ including books‚ firemen‚ and life in general. Montag explains at the beginning of the novel‚ “It never went away‚ that smile‚ it never ever went away‚ as long as

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    Guy Montag‚ is a fireman. But in his world‚ a “fireman”’s job is to burn houses that contain the burden called books. He quickly becomes eager to learn‚ and begins to steal books. He tries to share them with people he loves‚ but then the firemen came for his house. Because of his anger towards his job‚ wife‚ Beatty‚ and the fireman‚ he leaves the dystopian society. In the book Fahrenheit 451 the “known” for society is a government that controls the information that the public receives and gives

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    The book farenheit 451 is an fascinating book with a lot of attention-grabbing ideas. In the book farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the main character Guy montag is a fireman who burns books. He then realizes that books are important and he need to read the‚ which is against the law. Which leads to him getting Into problems. In the book there was a lot of modern tevhnology that helped out the community for example‚ the hound (is a mechanical robot)‚ the seashell radios ‚ and the parlour walls. In the

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    In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 he portrays few characters in the story that have a significant impact. They affect the main characters to further the plot and develop character identity. In Bradbury’s future society burning books is considered normal‚ and education and reading books are intolerable. Montag starts out a fireman who finds immense joy in burning books until he meets Clarisse. Clarisse is a care-free girl who sees nature not technology in a technology driven society. After one conversation

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