...In Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451" People fantasize over the fact that if you read books you are bad, have done wrong to your culture, and you should be burned along with your home. It also symbolizes many things and everything in this book shows significance. "There must be something in the books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." This got montag curious to where he started to wonder, are books really this important? What are in these books that someone would even burn with them? Yes they were obviously very important! Still he didn't have the knowledge to not have this fixed mind set about books until he got told "stuff your eyes with wonder,...
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...Fahrenheit 451 Assignment Topic 1 Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a man who comes to realize the threat of society, and the corruption of his government. Ray Bradbury uses the thoughts of this man to show mental awakenings and psychological discoveries that build suspense and excitement within the story. Montag’s first act of defiance starts when his “hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion.” (Pg. 37) He stole a book, a belonging that is banned in his nation, an item that he was instructed to burn. This decision adds a sense of danger to the story. Then later on, Montag is instructed to burn down his house, but he disagrees and instead murders his boss. The author uses this event to insert intense description that...
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...Exposition 1. Guy Montag- when he was introduced he was a very happy man burning books for a living. Clarisse McClellan- when she was introduced she had a leadership-like characteristic that when she talked to Guy Montag, the man was left with a lot of doubt about everything. Mildred- she passed out when she was first brought up in the novel. Beatty- he is very strict about his job. An example is he tells Guy Montag to play cards with him, and the other workers, or to be productive. 2. The setting was described as a town that was very spread out. A good example of this is the distance from Guy Montag’s house and workplace. Which the book makes it seem like there is a good distance between the two places. 3. You learn that Guy Montag does not like what society is doing. Society is burning books, but Guy Montag wants to keep them and read them for knowledge. 4. The protagonist of the story is Guy Montag. Physically, he seems fit enough to be a firefighter. Emotionally, he showed a lot of fear, and mentally he was weak. For example, he got really nervous for almost no reason. Lastly, he was very wise for thinking to keep books instead of burning them. 5. The antagonist of the novel is Captain Beatty. The way the author described Beatty, he sounded like a big guy with a low voice. Also, his emotions were mostly expressed as anger and rage. Even though he didn’t always show it. Mentally, he knew what he was going to do, and he did it. Meaning, intellectually he was not very good...
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...Stage One: Departure (Separation) The first stage of the monomyth is a form of departure or separation. In Fahrenheit 451 I think this first stage starts out when Guy meets and talks to Clarisse. Clarisse is an important character in this stage because she helps Guy realize that he needs to open his eyes to a different kind of thinking. He loved that he can have an intellectual conversation with Clarisse because she thinks in a way that others in this society do not. When Guy saves a book that he got from a woman’s house that they set on fire, he hides it and reads it the entire next day. By doing this, he realizes that there is more to what their world has to offer, and that they are missing out on amazing things. When he goes to Faber and talks about books Faber says, “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means...
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...New Historicism: Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury is a well-known author of stories, screenplays, and multiple novels that have left a lasting influence on American fiction. He left legions of devoted readers and a vast oeuvre that, at its best, combined Hobbesian fears with emotionally resonant hopes for his country and for the human race(Weiner 79). Bradbury’s work contained themes stemming from events and circumstances of the 1950’s. Such as the history of past wars, the times of an irrepressible movement of technological developments, and the censoring of offensive material. Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a cultural time marker, helping us to locate the past, evaluate the present, and imagine the future (Smolla...
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...vFahrenheit 451: Novel Test A society without books is a society without knowledge. In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, nobody is allowed to read any books, due to it being a crime against humanity. If somebody gets caught reading a book, that person’s house will get burned to ashes. Books are replaced with magazines, movies, and television, causing people to lose grasp of language arts and reading. Due to the technology drowning everything out, people in this dystopian society lack necessary social skills, causing them to act and think irrationally. The schools in the society don’t even teach any typical school subjects. The students learn about fighting and the “correct” way to watch the television. Books educate in many real subjects...
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...Fahrenheit 451 Response log When Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 he predicted many things that would soon to come true. Although the main plot of not being able to read books have not come true, many people have stopped reading books with technology advancing, it is not illegal. In the book it mentions little buds that go in your ear and plays music which is the basically the exact same description of earbuds. Mildred also mentions how she has and wants more wall televisions which is a tv that takes up a whole wall, although the normal person doesn't have a tv that takes up a whole wall I could see it becoming a possibility in the next couple of year with screens getting larger and larger each year. The book talks about talking to friends...
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...Books can be burned, ripped, destroyed, they can even go extinct, but knowledge cannot. One can censor books, sites, any type of media, but what one can never censor is knowledge. One of the most important themes of Fahrenheit 451 consists of censorship. Although, Fahrenheit 451 consists of multiple themes, censorship plays an enormous role and is noted to be the most important theme. Censorship is to perfectly describe the book of Fahrenheit 451 because of all the things that are restricted in it. Much is censored/restricted in this book, including thoughts, freedom, knowledge and even rights. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is a society filled with arrogance, temerity and laziness. All these negatives are caused by the lack of freedom and the entirety of censorship mentioned throughout the book. In the world of Fahrenheit 451, firemen start fires rather than extinguishing them. People of this society do not think independently nor do they have meaningful conversations. They don’t even have an interest in reading books. In the beginning of the book...
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...“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”(Bradbury 89). In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the main idea centers around the importance of human connection. Bradbury stresses this idea by allowing fire to take away the idea of building relationships with others. In turn, the society begins to collapse and literally ends with the city in flames. He also illustrates how much the real world relates to the crumbling world in the novel through technology, their current events, and the way the people treat certain issues. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury through his use of literary terms exposes how literature saves society from its inevitable demise by revealing today’s society’s weaknesses, challenges readers to connect the dystopian society in the book to reality, and demonstrates how human connections give people a reason to live and love. Even when Bradbury was a child he was interested in literature. In the article “Ray Bradbury: Martian...
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... Montag stood helpless as he watched the city crumble down into pieces. Nothing remained but an immense pile of dust dispersing into the air. Montag meets up with Granger and the rest. “What should we do now?” said Montag. “I believe we should lay low until the city settles down,” Granger decided. “Alright, I do not see any other option,” replied Montag. The city lay in its own ashes like a gigantic incinerated beast. Their footsteps were the only sounds they heard, aside from the occasional settling of debris in the city. Additionally, their shadows were clustered close underfoot, which were the only other companions to the wandering assembly of men. Suddenly, Montag saw something that left him astonished. “Granger, did you see that?” asked Montag. “It looked like some sort of animal,” said Granger “No, it looked like a girl,” replied Montag. He could have sworn he saw someone or something that looked exactly like Clarisse. “Granger, I will be right back,” said Montag as he quickly faded into the forest. This time, the forest was dark, yet comforting as the sun had not yet risen. Montag navigated through the forest by following the light. Montag continued into the forest until he tripped over a rock. Quickly, he stood up and looked into the darkness. There was a white smudge there standing, or waiting. Montag ran. His mind was telling him that the white smudge could not be Clarisse. It was not worth it, thought Montag. No, it just cannot be. However...
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...Fahrenheit 451 revolves in the bizarre era where everyone and everything is controlled by the government. From the beginning, since Montag and Clarisse met, he thought that Clarisse was different from the rest of the people even himself. He mentioned that Clarisse had a very thin face like the dial of the small clock which tells the time, the hour, minute, and second. Clarisse knows the time, she knows the truth, the facts, and she is like a mirror that reflects deep thoughts of the people. She made Montag curious about what happiness really is, true love, pure emotions, and knowledge, in which is not embraced in their society, making him the outsider. In this society, ignorance is a bliss;reigning across their culture, and what is thought to be the answer for happiness. There are many reasons why ignorance revolves in the society where this story took place. The fireman's job is to burn books, which contains the facts and the information, therefore burning knowledge. Books are no longer able to be read, not only because they might offend...
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...In the book Fahrenheit 451, Montag's wife, Mildred, reports her Husband's books to the fire station. In their world, possession of books is illegal and deserving of a ‘burning’ in which the firemen come to destroy the house of the owner, along with the owner himself. However, in our world, owning books is legal, and actually common. So the question is: was Mildred right to report her law-breaking husband, or should she have let Montag be? According to the world of this book’s readers, owning books is typically encouraged, owing to the benefits a person can reap from reading. If Mildred and Montag had lived in the real world, rather than that of the book, her actions would likely see her end up in a mental facility. On pages 16-17, Mildred wakes up after previously overdosing on sleeping pills, and can't remember what has happened; even after Montag insists that she has done so. Likewise, Mildred spends her time watching and listening to her ‘family’ who are actually just actors on a screen. So, according to the...
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...How important are books in your life? I would like to show how important they are and can be for you in the future. Through reading them or just looking at the pictures. When you first look at a book, you may wonder how the plot will turn out. The first stage of this book talks about burning a book. Stage one- “Do you mind if I ask? How long’ve you worked at being a fireman?” “Since I was twenty, ten years ago.” “Did you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed “That’s against the law!” (Page 5) How would you feel if your books were burned? I am glad that they are not against the law. With a book you could have quite a fire or start a fire with books. I really like reading books that you can understand and know the truth of that book and feel that you have gained so much knowledge with a book. It would make me sad to see a bunch of books burned. When we listen to the prophets, we are encouraged to read out of the best books. When you do not understand what the book is about or have not read a book for a long time you may find that stage two would have an effect in your life. What would you do if you have not read a book for many years and life was going very well for you and then someone pulls out a book and you hear it and you may feel like this with stage two- “Mildred snatched the book with a laugh. Here! Read this one. No, I take it back. Here’s that real funny one you read out loud today. Ladies, you won’t understand a word. It goes umpty-tumpty-ump...
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...This section of the book “Fahrenheit 451” has the most similarities to the common society today. Guy Montag receives a visit from Captain Beatty discussing the certain point in a fireman's career where he hits the phase of wondering all about the fireman and why his job is what it is. Captain Beatty explains to Guy why firemen burn houses that contain books and why books are not read anymore on a daily basis by the everyday person besides comic books and three-dimensional sex magazines. He tells Guy Montag that keeping the people uneducated and being active in their lives rather than sitting around and talking keeps everyone happy. One quote from Captain Beatty states “Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to...
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...Jimmy Nguyen English Petrow Ray Bradbury’s Predictions Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 portrays a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. Writing in 1953, Ray Bradbury warns readers about a future that could happen. Bradbury notices dehumanization in society as technology makes people become less individual and incapable of independent thought. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury makes predictions of the future that is frighteningly accurate to what life today is like. Some of the predictions Bradbury makes had to do with the way people and machines intermingled with each other. Ray Bradbury predicted news media portraying the world through destruction and violence, society losing social skills with friends and family because of a ‘digital wall’, and children being shoved through the school system only to go to places to destroy things. News is the main outlet our society uses to communicate with each other. Whether it is national or local news, or the lunch your friend posted on Facebook, it is supposed to unite the community together and help people gather information. Today in this digital age, however, the news broadcasts more violent things in the world. In the book, news media is used by the government to find Montag. In the end, the government ended up killing an innocent man just to satisfy the people watching the news. That scene was the pinnacle of reality, showing the foul and sinister side of society, showing how much they love to...
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