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    religion and rather than they are an individual person. Invisible Man gave two speeches about unfairness of Blacks in their society, The first speech is the first speech he gives in the book and at this time in the book, he is naive about the unfairness to Blacks. The second speech is when two older African American couples, get evicted. This

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    Ray Bradbury defines happiness rather well in his dystopian science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. The general definition of happiness in Fahrenheit 451 is that; if the government can suppress information about other countries,destroy all of the books in the country,and keep people from getting too smart to actually understand what’s going on everyone will be happy. This definition of happiness is a new and interesting take on what happiness is, or at least how to both achieve and maintain happiness

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    No Sympathy to Slaves Many writers on the African-American diaspora have attempted to capture the black experience in America, although some to no avail. Most Black authors like Zora Neal Hurston, Martin Delaney, and countless others have succeeded in painting the most accurate image of black people with the characters in their stories. Nevertheless, some authors fail in their portrayal of black people by using recycled economic stereotypes, highly metonymic based characters, and Fetishization.

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    Ellison’s Invisible Man, the narrator is essentially exiled from the college and more importantly the South by Dr. Bledsoe. Although the narrator starts his journey to the North with optimism, he soon finds out that he has been banished for good with little chance of returning to his home. Instead, he has to embrace his new lifestyle. On many occasions, the narrator’s surroundings bring him into new conflicts that alienate him. At the same time, this new environment helps to mold and shape the narrator’s

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    Thematic Idea

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    As an example Beatty said "Couloured poeple didn't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it." This relates to the themacitc idea because it shows us the purpose for the governent to censor it. Bradbury seems to be communicating that censoring books could make people happier becuase they would not feel offended. Example #2

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    convey a Christ- like figure. Stowe gives the title character Uncle Tom, being one of them, specific qualities and experiences that that can be mirrored to Jesus Christ. The first quality being loyalty; in the novel, Uncle Tom is described as an honest black slave with a strong religious faith and kind nature who is extremely loyal to his fellow slaves, but surprisingly to his white masters as well. In fact, when first mentioned in the novel by Mr. Shelby, who is trying to sell Tom to the

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    control, misinformation, and surveillance. The first theme of government control in Fahrenheit 451 is developed when the government burns/bans books just to avoid people's opinions and keep them from learning new things. Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it down. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it down. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs?

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    reference this idea several times in the book, speaking through several secondary characters, such as Captain Beatty or Faber. When Beatty is explaining to Montag the history of how the firemen changed, he goes over how, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo? Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Burn it.” or even, “Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs?... Burn the book.”, and pushes that they are only striving for peace in the world. Bradbury is pointing

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    Affirmative Action is Ineffective

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    the laying field, but its black field workers are still being oppressed. It is evident that Affirmative action is ineffective with the differences in the number of employed black's compared to whites and their difficulties to get and keep a job, blacks repetition in society has been tarnished due to stereotypes, and blacks face hidden discrimination. Allover America people are loosing their jobs and struggling to fide another. Compared to its white population blacks have a substantially higher

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    must be upheld. In a conversation with Montag in the firehouse, he goes on to explain how self-censorship led to the extreme censorship of burning the books and the homes of those who own the books. He states that "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity Montag. Peace Montag" (Bradbury, 57). He shows absolutely

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