Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

On the morning of Thursday November 4th, a group of firemen were called to an old lady’s

How is KNOWLEDGE power? or how do we benefit from ideas and learning different points of view? Knowledge is power, awareness, understanding of how things or someone works. Knowledge is facts of what we believe or think, is the skill we learn and knowledge is the acknowledge of humankind. Without knowledge we would still be stuck in the 100 century and most of us wouldn’t live for as long as we get to live today or even live to see people on a screen for hours. Anyway knowledge benefit us in many different ways.

Literature is not only important to society, but is very important for each individual to read and understand. Literature can provide a way for people to learn more about what happened in the past and can even be a way for people to reduce stress in their lives. There are many different types of literature and each of them can be used for different reasons. You can use books to study specific topics, to relive the past, and to express yourself through writing. Literature can be written about the past, the future and even about present day society. Even if the book or novel is fiction, it still has some sort of theme that resembles a real world experience or problem. We need literature in our lives to help us develop and improve, not only as individuals, but as a society and to learn about the past.

The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury was about a fireman name Guy Montag. Montag does the opposite from what regular fireman do. He starts fires instead of putting them out. Books in Montag's society is forbidden to read and if caught reading the book would be set on fire. Instead of reading, that society watches large amounts of television as big as the wall and listens to the radio attached to their ears. It was not normal for pedestrians to talk and have meaningful conversations until Montag met a teenager name Clarisse. Clarisse was a strange girl that opened up Montag thoughts. She asked him about his work and what made him become a fireman. One question that really got him to think was the statement “Are you happy”(Bradbury 10). Montag believed that Clarisse was odd. She wasn’t like the norm of the society. She read books, walked the city like a pedestrian and, had meaningful conversations. After that encounter with Clarisse a number of events started to happen to him; his wife Mildred tried to commit suicide with prescription pills, a woman that hid books in her home decides to burn a live with her books, and Clarisse is killed in a car accident., With all these tragic events occuring, Montag tries to find a solution to this epidemic. The society has become controlled from power, a sense of censorship. Bradbury has shown his viewpoint of society through this novel.

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” –Ray Bradbury. Our world compared to Fahrenheit 451 is such a stark contrast, In our world, books are cherished above all others. In 451 books are illegal. The Firemen start fires instead of putting them out. But the only similarity between our world and there's is that technology is everywhere, it is controlling and brainwashing.

The science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about a futuristic dystopian society where everyone follows simple rules/norms: don't read books and spend time with their “families”. The families in the novel are also known as the TV’s. Whoever in the novel reads or owns books, gets put down by the hound. Montag, a protagonist in the novel, works as the fireman whom are very violent (like the rest of the society). No one in this society ever think, but when Montag (Protagonist) meets Clarisse McClellan, he becomes to question everything. Bradbury tries to portray that when people become emotionless, they don’t think about their actions which end up being violent. Bradbury’s hound (terrifying mechanical beast that kills who are unlawful) represents a type of police in the society that regulates everything and everyone. Thus Bradbury’s predictions are similar to today’s society in the police forces (which are controlled by the government).

“ At a time when books, movies, and the theater are relaxing restrictions and expanding their fields of coverage, Tv still kills shows because of subject matter and story line.” (Newsweek 161). In the 1950s, there were many items and things censored for various reasons. A Dystopian culture is an unpleasant society specifically related to the future. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury chooses to incorporate the individual censorship to reveal the negatives of a Dystopian culture.

“Well wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three!” (41 Bradbury). In Fahrenheit 451 Montag and his wife Mildred are so far apart, not by physical space, but by something else entirely. A once sacred bond like marriage is simply a word and nothing more. They share the same house but not the same mindspace. Her head is filled with simple words and silly technological people. She is too blind to even comprehend love. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 there is no such thing as love.

As a child, there are special books that we never will forget. When I was younger, my mother would read the bible to me every night. Joining the wandering group of book lovers, had me choose a valuable book to preserve and memorize. I would preserve the bible for future generations because it gives a message of freedom, tells history, and transformed the world.

“Faith is the heroism of the intellect” (Charles Henry Parkhurst). In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Montag, is an intellect. In the society he lives in, books are illegal. The government feels threatened by people with the knowledge that books promote. Montag has the infamous job of a fireman, an odd twist on our society’s fireman. Fireman in this time start fires rather than stop them and the fuel for the fires are books. The government attempts to suppress thinkers; people who question orders given, people who question things that most just ignore. Montag’s job easily disguises his secret plots; Montag plans on planting books in fellow fireman’s houses in attempt to bring down this dystopian government. The

In my English class at Capital High School, we recently read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and we discussed whether freedom is really free What I think is that the freedom that we have right now isn't really free. The freedom that we want has to have limits because then we can lose our own freedom and actually not be free.Freedom is something that everyone should want. . Other ways we have for our freedom is having responsibility on what we do.

A world consumed by technology and completely controlled by the government in every aspect of life. This way of living is something that many people fear and try to stray away from. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, such a censored lifestyle has become the norm. Even though this novel was written over 60 years ago, the connections and predictions Bradbury made have been shown to become truer day by day. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury creates an interesting dystopian novel that highlights the culture, characters, and theme that serves as a warning to future readers.

Now at first glance anyone may look at the book and wonder what does Fahrenheit 451 mean? Well Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches on fire. This is our first glimpse into Ray Bradbury’s dystopian world in Fahrenheit 451. So, this book was originally published in 1953 during World War II and starting the Cold War, which plays a huge role in what this book symbolizes. The author of Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury.

The author of the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, believed that “‘the automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society’” (Conradt). Like his protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, he stuck up for what he believed in. In the book, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a firefighter, however not in the same way as firefighters are today. In Fahrenheit 451, firefighters start fires to burn books because the government believes they show society’s flaws. When he meets a seventeen year old girl named Clarisse, she opens his eyes to see a corrupt society. He starts reading books until he hears that Clarisse died. Montag, with the help of his friend Faber, escapes the city in hopes to be able to read without being killed. He soon finds a group, lead by a man named Granger, that is trying to go against the government, and realizes there are more people like him. Clarisse, Guy Montag, and Granger’s group contribute to the theme of sticking up for what you believe is right, even if there are consequences.

Compare the ways in which J. McTeigue in V for Vendetta and R. Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 use the features of their text types to explore how individuality overcomes oppression.