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One of the major changes in this new society is depersonalization, the loss of self and intimacy. After an alarm is sent to the firehouse for a home possessing books, Montag travels to the location with the other firemen. He then discovers that this is his own house, and his wife Mildred turned him in to the firemen. Then, Beatty, the head fireman and Montag’s acquaintance, forces him to burn it down himself. After doing so, he stands outside and watches his house burn. He ruminates, “A great earthquake had come with fire and leveled the house and Mildred was under there somewhere and his entire life was under there…” (112). Despite some of these things that are a part of Montag’s life not being the most pleasant, they are still a large part of who he was. As the house is being burnt down, Montag realizes that everything about him is being destroyed with it. Without his house, Montag has nothing familiar left, and registers that his whole life is essentially gone. After killing Beatty as revenge for forcing him to destroy his home, Montag starts his escape. He stops at the house of Faber, an ex-professor he met prior to the events of the story, for help. In shock, Montag voices his wonder about how he ended up in this situation. He

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.

May 10, 1933; Nazi Germany attacked Jewish intellectuals. Claiming they needed to “purify” the German language and literature, universities to be German nationalism. A symbolic significance to May 10, university students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books. Within past history in the book Fahrenheit 451 the resemblance of the two stories relate to how the governments wanted to banish books due to a new education, different than what should be taught (general information) as well as, people rebelling once learning this information.

The world created by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 mostly relates to today’s society in that both societies have banned books, which leads people to become dependent on technology; This dependence prevents people from being a part of the community and thinking for themselves. However, the extent Bradbury portrays the insensitivity towards violence creates an extremely dangerous world, whereas today’s society is more aware and sensitive to violence.

At a time when criticizing the routines of society didn’t happen without a reactive consequence, Ray Bradbury constructed Fahrenheit 451, a novel displaying his opinions about the doomed future of mankind. Bradbury predicted many aspects about our modern day society back when this book was published in 1953. Numerous characteristics of the world Bradbury created are emulated in our lives today. Fahrenheit 451 exhibits how reliance on technology, censorship, and adolescent violence mirrored from media can negatively affect the lives of children and adults in society.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

The society in Fahrenheit 451 had many different technologies from parlor walls to the mechanical hound that contributed to the downfall of humanity as well as human nature aspects that enhance the destructiveness of these technologies in the book. The technology over ruled this society as human nature aspects were kind of thrown to the side in this society which made the technology even more powerful and dangerous. This society was so scared of what would happen if they even thought differently that they let the technology take over as their human nature was brushed off and thrown away.

The Jaws Effect is a term used to express the experience a group goes through after a piece of media misrepresents them. This phrase was coined after the infamous 1975 cult film Jaws inspired a nation-wide shark-hunt that resulted in many species becoming endangered or almost extinct. Many classic novels are a contributor to this phenomenon; Catcher in the Rye alone has inspired at least four assassination attempts on public figures due to its messages about how wrong society apparently is. The root of the Jaws Effect lies within the age-old notion that fiction affects reality; a notion that has obviously has proved itself to be true. Representation of any group can be crucial in influential media; a positive or negative depiction can be the difference of how society views a minority, group, or organization. So, why is it that our education system continues to push for students to read books

Ray Bradbury is a guy who sees the world differently. He doesn't think that reading is necessity. It is more of a hurt than help. He thought if reading was no longer in incidence that, there would be less of a struggle in overall life. This is exactly what he did in his book Fahrenheit 451. He took away the idea of reading. There were still little things that were able to be read. It can be related to as meaningless things. Along with everything in life, with every action there's a reaction. In this case, the reaction to taking books away where things are just simpler. In this similarity, the way people looked at life changed. The world of Fahrenheit 451, people didn't care about others, their environments or anything that didn't affect them. Because there was no

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a book written to simulate the future of what the society may be like. In some aspects, Fahrenheit 451’s society is a lot similar to the current society, but sometimes, very different. The world of Fahrenheit 451 and the United States both ban books for similar reasons, but the two societies differ on respect for life and family relationships.

As renowned author Ernest Hemingway said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book”. This can be true at times, but in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, many people in the novel’s dystopian society think otherwise. In this essay I’ll be discussing the 5 books I’d save from the firemen if I was Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, and which of the 5 I’d choose to remember and “become”. The books I’d save would be Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun, the Bible’s book of Genesis, and Dave Canterbury’s Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival.

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ are both dystopian novels published just after the end of the Second World War. ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell is set in ‘Airstrip One’; the ‘future’ England, which has become a totalitarian government that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as ‘thoughtcrime’. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury however, is set in a future American society where books are outlawed and any found are burned. Both novels explore how governments can oppress their citizens by propaganda, such as the Big Brother posters everywhere, which are meant to give the citizens a feeling of protection, and also denying them the right to knowledge and individualism.

When Bradbury wrote, “fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over,” he meant that the fictional stories that authors write—the made up characters, plot, setting—will convey a theme, a message, that helps the reader realize the true things about their society or surroundings. Many times, a book may have unrealistic plots and settings, however it’ll still convey a theme that’s applicable to real life and to the reader, and help guide the reader to many revelations about real life—the ‘truth’ in our society and lives. I agree with this idea because although many books are written for entertainment purposes, and are composed of unrealistic plots and events, they often send a message to the reader, and teach them about life lessons.

The City Built with Fire Like many countries we have seen throughout history, the country in this book follows many of these same ideas. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopian country in the middle of a war. The country is violent and backwards featuring firefighters and a government who contribute to limiting the freedom of the people through the use of fire and ignorance. In this dystopia, there are three prevalent features: the burning of books, no freedom of speech or thought, and tolerance of murder. Bradbury uses these three features to, possibly, critique war, technology and communication, and people’s rights.

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.