...character Guy Montag created by Ray Bradbury, author of the book Fahrenheit 451’s protagonist. Both of these authors utilize characterization and conflict to develop their main...
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...They can really get out of life, and that change really does need to happen. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury shows how the protagonist, Guy Montag becomes unsure of the life he lives, in a society where everyone is the same, individuality is frowned upon, and books are illegal, yet he starts to become his own person. In the beginning, Guy Montag is content and happy with his simple life. After he meets Clarisse and steals a book, he changes and becomes a person yearning for the most out of life. He wants to have the best life he can live. In the beginning of Guy Montag’s adventure, he meets Clarisse a girl who has unusual ideas about society and the way things should work. At first he just thinks she is odd, but then he realizes that his whole world is unfulfilling. He realizes that his life is bland and boring and that he is not in love with his wife. When he is at the house they are supposed to be burning down, he sees a book, he takes it back to his...
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...HOW THE THEME EDUCATION EXTENT IN THE NOVEL ENTITLED FAHRENHEIT 451 BY RAY BRADBURY Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that tells the story of a future world in which books are banned and burned, TV becomes everyone’s drug of choice, and independent thinking is basically illegal. This novel describes about what happens when books are forgotten or suppressed, and it makes the author’s arguments about the book as a keystone to intellectual freedom and education of the human being. Fahrenheit 451 begins with an ambiguous opening line: "It was a pleasure to burn" (33). The story emphasizes on the live of a fireman named Guy Montag. Inside this story, the author describes that the people live in an era where the houses are all fireproof, people are addicted with TV and radio and the most extreme is that the main job of the fireman is not to end a fire but to start one. Fireman’s job is to find books and burn them. In the beginning of the story Guy Montag was very confirmative, went along with everything the government had ordered him to do and didn’t really question anything. But by the end of the story, he was completely different. He had changed his views completely. One reason that motivated Montag to change was his curiosity. His curiosity started when Montag saw Clarisse McClellan, the 17 years old girl who lived in his neighborhood. Clarisse was really the first person to open up Montag’s mind by asking him questions about his job, “But why do you...
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...Fahrenheit 451, a book written by Ray Bradbury, is one of his most famous writing.Ray Bradbury is most famous for his exceptional science fiction and horror themed books, including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and I Sing Body Electric.In the book, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presented us a society where the firemen burn books instead of eliminating the fire.The society does not like nature, think independently, or spend time by themselves.Instead, they watch myriad amount of television on wall-size sets and listen to radios on “Seashell Radio” attached to their ear.The main character, Montag Guy is a fireman who burn books in a futuristic American society, he was jubilant of his job, and enjoys burning books.”It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” Montag Guy,the main character, enjoys burning books and gets pleasure from it.That is until he met Clarisse McClellan, a beautiful seventeen-year-old that unlike anybody Montag had seen.She made him realize how empty his life is and made him wonder what books are.However, he soon began to encounter a series of disturbing events.First, his wife tried to commit suicide by eating a bottle of sleeping pills but was not...
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...“Are You Happy?” Fahrenheit 451 is a Dystopian society set in the future. Guy Montag, the main character, is a fireman but not in the way we have firemen. He burns books. In this society reading is illegal, elections are rigged, all the citizens are constantly bombarded with mind numbing TV shows leaving them no time to think. Clarisse McClellan is a 17 year old who is neighbors with Montag. She is viewed as abnormal and anti social because she likes talking to people, having real relationships with people and interactions with people. Beatty is a fire chief in Montag’s district. He knows literature but strongly dislikes it. Faber is an old retired English professor. Montag meets him one day in a park While Faber was reading! Montag, rather...
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...firemen start fires rather than put them out. Houses have built-in alarms that ring when someone has a book in his possession, alerting the firemen to go there and begin the burning. There are so many suicide attempts that traveling orderlies are always on hand to pump stomachs or stitch self-inflicted wounds. In the craziness of this futuristic world, it is comforting to find that beds still have to be made and breakfast still has to be eaten. In short, Bradbury has created a world alien enough to be exotic and threatening, but familiar enough to seem real. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Guy Montag A fireman in the 24th century who burns books and the homes of the people that own them. He begins to question his life when he meets an extraordinary and fresh young girl. His new sense of purpose propels him headlong into life-threatening danger. Mildred "Millie" Montag Montag's wife....
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...Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books. People in this society do not read books. Montag has a daughter named Clarisse McClellan. She was killed by a speeding car. Also, his wife, Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. There was an old woman that had stash of hidden hidden books. The woman told him she would rather be burned alive along with her books. With everything going on Montag begins to search for a solution in books. He had stolen from his own fires. He hid inside an air-conditioning vent and read the books. The next day Montag doesn’t show up for work. his fire chief goes to his house, and explains that it’s normal for a fireman to wonder what books have to offer. Montag remembered an English professor that he once met. He visits...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This one, with gratitude, is for DON CONGDON. FAHRENHEIT 451: The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns PART I IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burntcorked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that. smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered...
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