Fahrenhiet section 1
Part One of “Fahrenheit 451” is about a fireman who burns books in a future where anything that provokes thought or is unhappy is censored. In the beginning of Part One, the main character Montag is just like any other American and has fun burning books and hardly thinks anything about them at all. Then a girl named Clarisse starts to make him think about his life and about the books. By the end of Part One, he admits to his wife that he stole many books and starts to read them. The other important characters of Part One are Beatty, Clarisse, and Mildred. Beatty is Montag’s boss, the fire captain. He is well educated and yet hates books and the people who read them. He is very clever and a good talker, and often persuades Montag to think what Beatty wants him to think. Clarisse is a high school girl that moves in next door to Montag. Sh
Important quotes from Section One include: “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal … A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind” (Bradbury 58). Beatty is telling Montag in this quote that books give people knowledge which can be used as a weapon and that they make people unequal if some have read more than others. I predict that in the next section someone will turn Montag in. Due to Mildred’s reaction to the books, I think that maybe she will turn him in. I also think that Clarisse didn’t die and will help or meet Montag later in the book. “Speed up the film Montag, quick … Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!” (Bradbury 55). This quote is ta
Some topics in this essay:
American Fahrenheit,
Mechanical Hound,
American America,
Montag American,
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Beatty Montag’s,
Due Mildred’s,
Montag She’s,
Beatty Clarisse,
mechanical hound,
beatty clarisse,
books people,
typical american,
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Approximate Word count = 570
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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