... to see what my opinion was. I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it because I am normally a fantasy reader and don't usually go for this kind of book. But when I got home with it I picked it up and it stayed permanently attached to my hand until I finished it. It was finished in one week. ... My summer course teacher discuss the book with us during the lesson which really helped me to get through the book easier. Summary: In this story, the author Ray Bradbury tells us about futuristic American city in which books ... for firemen who go put out fires. However the government has banned all ...

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... never fails... nose so sensitive [he] can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men without resetting" [133]. 5. Settings: The book takes place in America during the 24th century. Major setting's in this story includes Montag's home, the firehouse, and the outskirts of the town. Montag ... Montag and the other men go about their "duty" to start rebuilding the society that destroyed itself. 7. Themes: A major theme in this book is the outrageous censorship of books by the government. The government in this society is basically burning books so that nobody's feeli...

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... machines of the city are negative and bad and nature and the Earth is pleasant and proper. John Huntington puts the thoughts of the "book people" best when he says that in Fahrenheit 451 they feel that "nature is submissive and controllable, while technology is predatory and threatening" ... (114). Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag goes through significant changes. "In the course of [Fahrenheit 451] Montag goes from book-burner to living-book" (Johnson 86). At the beginning of the novel, Montag is a fireman. "Whereas, in our society, a Flaster 3 fireman extinguishes fires, in Bradbu...

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... her kids with her. She lives in a house at 124 Bluestone with a woman referred to as Baby Suggs who actually dies shortly after the book begins. The character Schoolteacher is a slave capturer and when Sethe sees a sheriff and Schoolteacher coming to her house, she runs to the woodshed without ... Sethe and she goes into a slight depression. Paul D comes back and the story ends with everyone trying to forget that Beloved ever existed. This book was banned for two big reasons and a few smaller reasons. The most frequent reasons were that it contained violence and pornography. The reason of...

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... that everything has no meaning, his life, wife, and job. He realizes this when he meets up with a neighbor, a 16 year old girl. Montag steals a book from a house he is burning down, and keeps it and begins to read it, everyone that knows of this is frightened for him. Montag becomes close friends with ... she sits and watches television. Mildred later tries to commit suicide by overdosing on pills. She later leaves her house, and her husband because of the book Guy Montag had brought home. The neighbor is Clarisse McClellan, and she is the one that opens up Guy Montag's eyes to the worl...

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... over by the general population. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is an outlaw. Books are banned, and anyone who is found with a book in their possession is arrested, and the books are burned. This story shows how important books are to us all. Fahrenheit 451 starts with an ... (109). The professor knows Montag is a fireman so he takes precaution, even though the two were acquaintances. Faber is surprised at both the rarity of the book (The Bible), and at the thought of a fireman stealing and salvaging books. The two men speak for several hours about Clarisse, Beatty, a...

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... a world in which these conditions were a part of everyday life. A significant title that catches the eye-"Fahrenheit 451--is coincidentally the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. Guy Montag, the main character in the story, tells the revelation from his point of view, but it was written in ... he hates books and people who insist on reading them. Professor Faber is a retired English professor who Guy came across about a year before the book starts. He is very intelligent and still keeps a few works of literature hidden. He believes society is full of cowards who won'...

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... Montag finds her odd contentment with herself fascinating. Granger is not introduced until the very end of the story; he is the leader of the "book people ", a group of homeless people who wish to preserve books by memorizing them and passing them down until they can be rewritten. Montag ... the first time, he and Julia go to his apartment together to meet with him. There, O'Brien tells Winston of the Brotherhood and gives him a book written by Goldstein. Soon after this, Winston and Julia are caught together. When Winston wakes up, he is in a jail-like place with telescreens on ... him ...

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... Montag lives. Everything is easy, and, more importantly, thoughtless. The thematic elements in Fahrenheit 451 have received much praise. "Bradbury's rage against censorship and book burning reached its fullest and most eloquent expression when the novel was expanded." Says (George Guffey) in an essay he wrote about Bradbury. (Novels for ... He has escaped the alienation of the mechanical society he left behind. Perhaps he will help establish a better one by remembering the words in the book that he will commit to memory. In this novel Bradbury uses many different characters to show the th...

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... beauty and sincerity of impulsive young love in a time where society deemed such happenings as normal. Even though To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize Award, the Alabama Library Association Book Award, and the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the novel still receives shouts of criticism because of its "immorality" and "racist attributes ... in their educational careers, they do nothing to possibly negatively impact them! Books need to question accepted beliefs and they need to challenge people! If people cannot see how a challenging book help...

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... a terrible blow upon the head"(33). Guy is shocked, as he had never seen a person who could not live without a book. Are there some things really attractive in the book? Guy starts to think about this question. This is a biggest turning point in Guy's life, Guy tells Mildred after the conversation with ... exists in the books. Montag meets an English professor and a group of renegade intellectuals who are book lovers, and they all agree that books are the missing part of this unhappy world. Guy keeps a book and read secretly, Faber, an English professor, helps Guy understand how to read ...

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... via cesarean section, therefore making him not "woman-born"." This realization comes too late for him and he is killed and decapitated. In the book Anthem, Equality also displays signs of arrogance. When he finally harnesses electricity he decides to go to the scholars, fully knowing that he does ... give the reader examples of what goes wrong with a government of a dystopian society when an individual's own will is taken from them. In the book, "Fahrenheit 451,' Montag has captain Beatty, who he look after for inspiration and guidance. So when Montag starts questioning his society's rul...

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... 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. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon" (Bradbury 58). This statement is made in Farenheit 451, by ... learns that Beatty himself is unhappy and wants to make others unhappy as well. Beatty is intelligent and well read, and fully understands the value of book, however, he wants to be in control and by burning books he feels that he can keep the people from having their own opinions; he can ...

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... look at it as a way to save the human race. Throughout the novel, Beatty uses fire destructively while Montag uses it constructively. Beatty's role throughout the book provides the reader with a physical manifestation of the government's rules and regulations. Since the beginning, Beatty has believed in fire's destructive use. He uses fire ... use of fire has departed from his original destructive use; however, Beatty's use of fire stayed constant and stagnant throughout the book, continuing his destructivity until his death. Previously analyzed was a quote by Beatty that said, "Don't fac...

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... to firehouse, stand alert for other alarms." (35). "Kerosene." "They pumped the cold fluid from the numbered 451 tanks strapped to their shoulders, they coated each book, they pumped rooms full of it." (38). After responding to an alarm, the men are drenching the house of an old woman with kerosene because the house ... dance, and you may die. We may even land one day." This poem will remind a person who has read Fahrenheit 451 of the society in the book because of the free from care attitude presented by people in position of authority. At the firehouse the firemen have a mechanical ho...

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... his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared that it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society, a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today ... he, a hybrid of the two cultures, was stuck in the middle. (May) These concepts, human reaction to changes in their culture and questioning of these changes, are evident throughout the book. Huxley's characters either confor...

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... in a position to be better than the people they are prosecuting. "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." Officer Beatty was trying to explain the danger of books to ... the feeling they have towards the war. In both societies it is every man for himself. Mildred's friends would rather rat out Montag than get in trouble for knowing where book existed. Mildred would rather save herself than back her husband up. Faber ...

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... Utopia he heard about from his mother; the Indian culture in which he lived, but which rejected him as an outsider; and the plays of Shakespeare, which he read in a book that survived from pre-Utopian days. John is different from the other Savages and from the Utopians. He is tall and handsome. John looks at both worlds through the lenses ... ...

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