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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Happiness is Based on One’s Freedom

People all over the world today try to escape their country to come to the United States so that they can be free and happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury set in 24th century America, tells about Guy Montag and what the future is turning into. Montag is a firefighter that becomes interested in books, which banned from anyone to read. Montag’s wife then turns him in because she thinks it is wrong to try and think and read; she thinks that she is happy with all the television they have and thinks they will be sad if they do read. Montag takes books during the times her is supposed to be burning down houses and keeps them covert form his wife because he does not want to be turned in and have to burn down his own house. Once Montag is caught he has to burns down his house. He ends up killing his chief and goes on the run and finds others that think books are going to help the world. Montag returns to the city after it got bombed and to show the people books and how they will make them happy. One of the main messages Bradbury sends future readers with his novel is that happiness is based on one’s freedom because those who live outside of society and those who choose to defy the government are truly happy while those who allow the government to control them are not happy at all. If one lives outside of society he/she is happy. In Fahrenheit 451 there are people that live in the forest, outside of the city that have been caught with

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