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    The book, Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopian society where books are banned and firemen burn them. Much of the public entertains themselves by watching wall-to-wall television. Montag is the protagonist. He is a fireman who serves Captain Beatty and eventually grows to love books due to the influence of Clarisse. Clarisse has been raised to observe things and to actually think unlike most of society. The entertainment in Fahrenheit 451 shows the potential dangers society could face due to

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    Would you like a world without reading? Would you want a world without happiness? I may not like reading but it adds emotion to the world and doesn’t make it a dull place like in Fahrenheit 451. The reason why the world is without emotion is because the government took books away, and they suppress the will for people to express their emotion. And if people are willing to sacrifice everything to read a book then maybe books are actually important. A lady died because she was protecting books that

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    In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” he talks about a world without books. The firemen are burning down houses with either people and their books or just their books leaving them without a home and without a purpose. In “Fahrenheit 451” we follow a protagonist who is a fireman is named Montag. The Captain of the fire station named “Beatty” proudly supports the symbol of the phoenix on his hat. Both the firemen and the phoenix are dangerous by burning everything including political and social standpoints

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    interaction. In Fahrenheit 451, books have been outlawed by the government because people stopped reading them and they discussed controversial topics making them do more harm than good. Guy decides to start saving books from the fires and revolts against the hate for books because he thinks that people need to know the knowledge that they hold. He is married to a woman named Mildred who is obsessed with watching her programs and does not really love Guy. Throughout Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, with the

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    internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

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    leading to a period in which the works of previous civilizations were forgotten. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is a revival of the Dark Ages, in which the government burns books of the past in order to prevent the population from learning about history. This makes it easy for the government to control the people as they will not contradict any deceptive ideas imposed upon them. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows the reader a society that does not value intellectual and social freedom, which

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    In Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, portray a dysfunctional world that has dehumanized its people. All three literary works display a world where the minds of people are twisted. They support the theory that technology takes away everything that makes humans unique. In these stories, the society that the main characters live in is too dependent on technology, resulting in people with empty, meaningless lives. In these stories

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    care more about themselves than the world around them, as long as they feel they are ok and entertained they don't care for anyone else's well being.Unfortunately this dystopian book is not all that far away from our own reality. Much like in Fahrenheit 451 society

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    “Montag places his hand on the woman’s elbow and says, ‘You can come with me.’”(Bradbury 39). He tries to convince the old lady to get out of the house which was about to be burned. This act requires courage because in a society presented in Fahrenheit 451, nobody cares about others and by helping the old lady Montag creates suspicion about himself by his fellow firemen. Another point in the novel where Montag shows courage is that he reads in the subway in front of many people primarily to think

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    wrote his novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953. From the time he was writing it, he struggled to find inspiration to figure out how to write it, it was originally called The Fireman. He wrote to show an example of the media affecting reading in the United States. Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 has made its way on the banned list, mainly because he mentioned burning the bible. It was published by Ballantine Books. Our society is free, he can create and express our ideas, unlike Fahrenheit 451 society. Bradbury

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