... world. Guy Montag used to be a fireman whose job was starting fires and burning books. He loves his job and never doubts his job or is curious about the reason why he should burn books for the ten years of his working life. One night, he meets his new neighbor, a seventeen year old girl, called Clarisse ... open, separate, and therefore cold bed" (Bradbury 10). Guy could not remember when and where he and Mildred met at the first time. The life of them seems boring and rigid, she does not think about the future of their lives or even the society, although she has plenty of ... general h...

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... press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." (U.S. Constitution) However, many books have been censored in the past years in certain public libraries and schools because they had conflicting viewpoints, or they had a hidden message that children ... book in the 1990's mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. Though this isn't the same exact reason why the books were censored in "Fahrenheit 451", the concept of people disagreeing on children learning about alcohol expresses the same meaning. The governme...

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... old neighbor Clarisse McClellan. She has such an outlook on human life as it is, and is so inquisitive, that Guy begins to examine himself. He realizes that he is unhappy in his marriage to his wife, Millie. He begins to wonder why books have been banned. Later, while at the scene of a ... visited by his boss, Captain Beatty. Beatty hints that he, somehow, knows that Montag is in possession of a book and lectures Montag about the offensiveness of books. Unsure as to what to do next, Montag recalls meeting a retired professor, Faber, a year earlier and discussing with the old man the valu...

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... where war is common, feelings are shunned, family is non-existent, and thought is no longer an individual's question. To facilitate Bradbury's world, books have been banned, condemned to be burned on sight along with their possessors. Who should be the policemen of this world of ignorance? The "firemen ... trucks, and wail their loud sirens. However, one fundamental difference exists. Instead of extinguishing fires, firemen start them, and "cleanse the evil books of their sin." Books exist as forbidden belongings and further knowledge; if found in possession, they will be removed and de...

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... in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough, the city has its own problems. The protagonist, Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand against society but gets discovered, then barely escapes his punishment to join a group ... meets a crazy and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front...

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... , and everything around her. She is the one who gets Montang to begin questioning everything from his own happiness to the reason for burning books. Only after he meets Clarisse he wonders if firemen ever "put out fires instead of going to start them"(8). When Montang found ... other. To find out he truth Montang asks Mildred if she remembers where they met the first time. The fact that Montang actually asks Mildred if she remembered where they met the first time shows how Clarisse's question influenced Montang . If it wasnt for Clarisse Montang wouldnt have asked Mildred ... this que...

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... happy, like everyone else in the suburban city, Clarisse focuses on nature and the world. After talking to Guy, Guy starts realizing how his life and the world really are and tries to change. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that censorship isn't always helpful since it destroyed Guy's marriage ... marriage. Secondly, censorship has made everyone think alike. Everyone stays at home and does the same thing every day and it is the normal everyday life. Their walls are TV's and many times in the story it tells how Millie watches it. One night, Millie has friends over to sit ... only reacts in...

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... most wanted fugitive in his country. Guy escapes successfully and works with a small group of revolutionaries to restore the respect and circulation of books. (3.) The title of the book, Fahrenheit 451 The Temperature at Which Books Burn, is significant because it is a metaphor for real life and it is used as a prominent symbol in the book. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which ... books are burn. The firemen know this because they work with burning books everyday. The "Book People" dread this temperature because it destroys the one thing ... an idea or voice to make it more confo...

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... suicide by swallowing a whole bottle of pills, doctors come in with a stomach pumper and in minutes, she is recuperated. This shows the lack of loving life. The society does not care about individual lives at all. "When Montag finally makes his break from the technological future he is pursued by a "mechanical ... destructive agent, fire is employed by the state to annihilate the written word" (Stanley 102). The firefighters of the city use fire to destroy all books. "Fire is also used as a tool of murder when turned on the book woman and on Beatty, and fire is inherent in the flash of ....

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... this not to blindly follow the rules of the government. While the government knows this to be the truth, they often say that they censor books because the books themselves, or the ideas they contain, are harmful and will make the people unhappy. "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door ... motion; the think man wanted to invent, but never did....Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences." (Bradbury 115). That is, by eliminating books the government removes the ability to distinguish right from wrong, to make moral decisions. "Instead of reading, people lis...

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... make a difference in the world. They try to free the world by telling and showing people the truth that is hidden in books. It is not easy to change the world within a short time, but they keep trying and never give up. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury argues through Clarisse, Faber and Montag that in ... the people ignore her or even threaten her. Even though hardly anyone listens to her, she keeps trying to make a difference in at least one person's life. She does not have any friends at school because she thinks differently from other students. She cannot understand why the students hur...

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... 's character is very complex. On one hand he is very brave. He demonstrates this by having enough courage to stand up against society for what he believes in. Like the time when he secretly places a book in another fireman's house so that fireman will end up having to burn his own house and go to jail. Montag does this because he ... his ideas out completely. Another trait that Montag possesses, is that he often acts before he thinks. This quality alone gets him into the most trouble with the government. One time, when Montag gets frustrated, he burns one of his fellow firemen because th...

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... world than television and empty entertainment. Clarisse, therefore, is a catalyst that helps Montag change his opinion about himself in this world and causes him to re-assess the value of books. When they first meet, Clarisse impresses Montag with her inner peace and knowledge. She represents a carefree spirit who sees the world in a very different light. Her happiness comes from her ... love of people and nature. Life at home for Clarisse consists of a family that talks, laughs and spends time together. This contrasts sharply with Montags home life which is mostly about viewing televis...

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... lack of communication. People cant survive if there is no communication going on. Everyone was brainwashed by all the technology that they rarely had time to talk. When they did talk, it was meaningless. Everyone agreed with each other, no one had their own opinion. People didn't express themselves. ... inside. The lady then went into the kitchen and lit a match, which burned herself and he books. This quote shows us how brainwashed everyone in Fahrenheit 451 is. Beatty thinks that everything in life should agree with one an other. Beatty has never expressed any of his own ideas, he jus...

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... ". I quickly scanned over this book several times before I remembered a friend telling me that it was one of his favorite books. I also remembered a friend telling me not to waste my time. I decided to buy it to see what my opinion was. I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it because I am ... and the Salamander" while explaining the history of firemen to Montag in his home. Fahrenheit 451 did not really explain why books are banned during that period of time. Instead, it suggests there are two factors that can combine to lead to this problem. First factor is because of the ... 's lifestyle...

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... those who attempt to be an individual. This particular society has outlawed books; books are to be burned if found. Guy Montag is a fireman who believes that he has a great life, even though he assists in the censorship. Firemen burn books to prevent society from unhappy emotions and unapt thoughts. Fireman notified by alarms ... to before. One thing in this book that blows my mind is a line that Clarisse says. She says "Strange I heard once that a long time ago, houses used to burned by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames." This is said when Clarisse and Montag first mee...

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... and African American characters better treatment anger him even more. He feels that these approaches lead to the banning of books. This may be where he came up with the idea of the story of Fahrenheit 451. Another possibly source ... in Fahrenheit 451 are considered dystopian. Dystopia refers to a place where no one is truly happy. The condition of life is extremely bad from deprivation and terror. It is the opposite of Utopia, an imaginary perfect place in its social, ... society is very much alike that of the one in George Orwell's 1984. Writing is forbidden in Orwell's society as read...

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... possession is arrested, and the books are burned. This story shows how important books are to us all. Fahrenheit 451 starts with an incident in which Guy Montag, the main character meets Clarisse McClellan, his new neighbor. Montag is the protagonist of the story. In the time of his life when we meet him he is ... very unhappy with his job, and life in general. Guy ... is a third generation fireman who destroys books for a living. He has a very distinct typical look for a fireman "Black hair, black ... wants nothing to do with it. Montag lets her in on a little secret of his. He has f...

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... by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic novel, taking the reader to a time where books and thinking are outlawed. In a time so bad where those who want to educate themselves by thinking and by reading are outlaws as well. Books and ideas are burned; books are burned physically, while ideas are burned from the mind. Bradbury warns ... us of what may happen if we stop expressing our ideas, and we let people take away our books ... Montag then steals a book from a collection that he has been sent to burn and is sick to his stomach when he realizes the importance of books. He then finds out that Cl...

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... main protagonist in the story. He is a typical ignorant citizen until he meets Clarisse. He realizes that burning books is not the answer. He is a man who is willing to learn, but has a hard time grasping information. "I've been an idiot all the way I thought I had part of the Book of ... place, and the mechanical hound just downstairs. The outskirts of town is where Montag escapes the government and his life. In a sense, it's telling the reader that, if you want to escape societies pressures, spend time with nature. 6. Plot summary: 1. Montag meets an, according to society, odd girl nam...

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... , I cant help believing that Beatty was disillusioned. First off, I assume that the Chief has read some books, for he has a great deal of knowledge about books and their contents. I think that these books somehow messed up Beatty's life, and that he wanted his revenge on them. What better way then to be the burner of ... the city because the city was falling apart. The people were becoming like robots; they had not real thoughts. I think Ray Bradbury's point was life could be started over again. As mentioned in Fahrenheit 451, the story of the phoenix comes into mind. This great scarlet f...

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... lives with her uncle, mother and father in an apartment across the street from Guy's house. Guy has a wife named Mildred with whom he lives. Mildred lives the kind of life that the government wants all of their citizens to live. She watches lots of TV because the government wanted people to not have to think while getting a form of entertainment ... other firemen. He believes in every rule that the government lays down. He agrees with outlawing the reading of books and supports "mindless entertainment." He hardly reveals his life until the end of the book where he admits that he had a l...

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... incredible speed, Guy's chance encounter with Clarisse turns his world upside down. Clarisse and Montag didn't know each other for a very long time, but she had a major impact upon him. Guy worked as a fireman, setting fires and burning books, which, in the world depicted in Fahrenheit 451, had become obsolete. For ten years Guy performed his role as a book burner with satisfaction ... meeting a seventeen-year-old, however, Guy Montag changed his whole perspective on book burning. The young woman, Clarisse, had a viewpoint on life that was completely opposite to the typical person in Fa...

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... are ten lanes across, and firemen are called to begin fires not to put an end to them. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, all of these are a reality in everyday life. Each house in the novel is fireproof, bringing about drastic changes in the roles of firefighters. Firefighters now begin fires, rather than extinguish them as they do today. On a number ... of texts. In the world of Fahrenheit 451 the Bible is on the brink of extinction because people's way of seeing life has changed because of Science and Technology. One of the main reasons why the attitude of society towards books has ch...

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... and the themes that are displayed in both novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. In both novels, a very obvious theme comes to ... visible around the city in which Winston lives as well as hidden microphones, the Party is able to watch its members almost all of the time. Also, they also have machines to inflict on those who defy the Party and its beliefs. Not to mention the amount of computers and ... of a gov...

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