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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” These are the wise words of the famous George Washington. Washington fought against the British in the American Revolution in order to secure these rights for the American population and the next generations of Americans to come after him. He knew that as time progressed, people would eventually forget what these liberties meant to America. Ray Bradbury also knew this and wrote Fahrenheit 451 in order to warn people about it. He placed it in his book with ideas of propaganda such as parlor TVs, new stations run by the government, and most importantly the destruction of all books published all around the world. And they enforce these laws through the firemen who burn books, the newscasters whose spread untruthful news in order to keep society ignorant about what they have been doing, and lastly the Mechanical Hound which eliminates any threats to the government. There are many in the society, such as Guy Montag, who want to be rid of the fireman, the parlor TVs, and the Mechanical Hound in order for society to enjoy literary works without the fear of being persecuted or killed. Faber, Montag 's mentor, feels that even if society has the opportunity to read books they will never truly enjoy it due to three reasons- people don 't have decent quality material to read, they don 't have the leisure to digest the information, they also don 't have the ability to carry out

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