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Town Ideas In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451 Paper Fahrenheit 451 is a very complex book that makes the reader really think about what they are reading. Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953 by Ray Bradbury as a dystopian novel that encompassed some of Bradbury’s ideas of how our society was flawed. Some of these ideas are prevalent in present day. Bradbury created a very compelling novel that makes every reader question what he is trying to convey to others. Fahrenheit 451 serves as an alarm to our flaws and makes a reader question what Bradbury is trying to transmit through his writing.

Culture was very prevalent in the story and it can be seen throughout the whole book. Town values were very similar but very different from some characters. The similar values created a sense of conflict between town ideas and some character ideas. The overall town value consisted of having happiness by conformity. The town was very centered around television because it dealt with actual people and doesn’t make people feel lost. “I’ve had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They’re nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they’re fiction. … You come away lost” (Bradbury 69). It is a sort of conforming idea that books will always let humans down because it is all a figment of your imagination and you will come away lost. Books have been abolished from this town and it a taboo to speak of them or attempt to have them. Although there can

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