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Submitted By ignacioliras
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Fahrenheit 451 is a book by Ray Bradbury. This book is about a society which is repressed, because the government doesn’t allow the people to read books (because they say that the books make people sad, because it has a lot of information and things like that) . So there are types of people whose their work is based on the search of the books that the people hide from the society. So there is a fireman which name is Montag, he is the kind of people whose search books to burn them. So he was doing his job well until one day he went to a house to burn the books, but the problem was that not only did the books get burned, also an old women get burned wit

h the fire of the books because she put them on fire with her in the middle of the books. After that Montag starts reading books and here is the controversy, because a fireman who is supposed to burn books also has some books to read them.
So that kind of summary that I did it before it could be applied for the book and the movie. So I will start talking about some difference between the book and the novel. Clarisse is one of the principal characters of the book and novel, but between both there are a lot of differences talking about her. First of all, Clarisse in the novel is 17 years old and she was a student, but in the movie she has 22 and she was a teacher, the only similarity in this is that in both cases she was dismissed from the school, for apparent “antisocialism”. Also Clarisse in the novel she was killed by a fast car, and in the movie she escaped out of the city after her family was captured. Talking about Montag, there is no Mechanical Hound in the novel which “betrays” Montag is the pole. Other difference between the novel and the book is that the name of Montag’s wife in the novel is Mildred, and in the film is Linda. So this started to question myself why there is so many differences between the

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