Book Report - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Introduction: I was standing in a bookstore in Los Angeles, browsing the shelves for a book that was required for my summer course in. I found the book on the corner of a shelf and realized that the cover of the book was pretty interesting, as it appears "the novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze". I quickly scanned over this book ... 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 ...

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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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... the things which are" (chapter 2-3) and "the things which shall be hereafter" (chapter 4-22). This book is rich in symbolism so there are several interpretative approaches to it in the Christian community. As already mentioned, the books of Daniel and Revelation are two of the prophetic books of the Bible. Even if ... they were written about 600 years apart, both talked about the future of the world, judgment and God's victory over evil. Let us explore how the book of Daniel relates to the book ... are symbols of seven period of church from the time of John until the second coming of Jes...

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... was sick a lot with tonsillitis and ear infections. His mother encouraged him to start writing his stories instead of copying the ones he was reading. The first book he wrote when he was six was a four page penciled story about a bunny that could drive a car. A year later Ruth introduced King to horror ... he did not like. The ones he did like died heroes. Friends loved to come over to the King residence to hear his stories as he typed them on his manual typewriter. In 1959, his brother David began publishing his newspaper, called Dave's Rag. King was the reporter that covered the town ....

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... books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted ... is important not only in The Outsiders, but in everyday life as well. Literary Criticism "One major flaw [in The Outsiders] is that the book is written with self-indulgence, and could profitably have been cut. Apart from this, even the over- didacticism of its first person narrative & .....

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... 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 helps to fo...

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... the cost of maintaining a digital library is much lower than that of a traditional library. A traditional library must spend large sums of money paying for stuff, book maintenance, rent, and additional books" (Kresh, 2007, page 2). However, we must not think that a digital library would be free. There would have ... example, as reported by Allison Flood, she states "Authors are asking a New York judge to order Google to pay them $750 for every book the search giant scanned without authorization as part of its controversial Google Books programme" (Flood, 2012). Authors need to make a livi...

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... of August 1998(Bade). Amazon.com has plans in the works to capitalize on its increased market share by expansion into European e-commerce with already having 22% of sales from outside the United States. By acquiring previously established global companies, Amazon's expansion into international localities should be smooth ... buyers consist of 63% of their business (Maranjian). A major threat for online booksellers is that, with the ease of distributing products online, book publishers could begin to allocate their books through their own websites, eliminating the middleman, and reaping ...

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... To view a painting Berger says that you must know the artist and view the painting in context of when the painting was painted. To read a book there is not too much background information that is needed, where as the background information in paintings can change the whole way we look at it. If ... context and the whole mood of the painting can actually change, but in writing there is usually set emotions that will take place no matter where the book is read. Berger commented that a person's background can affect the way they view a painting, well the same can be said about novels. Many...

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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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... find out which books are overdue and issues a reminder. When new books arrive at the library the librarian prepares a card with the book details for each book. When a new student comes to borrow books for the first time he has to fill in a registration form and the librarian ... The new system is more efficient. It eliminates the need for cards and their associated problems. The librarian will find out immediately if a book is available or not. The computer issues a reminder for overdue books. The computerized system reduces the need for more than one librarian. The ... issue and the re...

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... many of the characters were portrayed in a very different light to the more recent film. One example of this is the character of Legolas who, in the book, rides Frodo to safety when confronted by the Dark Riders. In Jackson's film, it is the character of Arwen who does this, not Legolas, and as ... a result the film contains a strong love story, between Arwen and Aragorn, which is not seen in the book until the last two books and even then, is a background event. In doing this, Jackson has changed the nature of The Lord of The Rings to include a ... story does not leave much room for in...

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... . He began to illustrate his own drawings for his books. Despite his reputation as an advertising illustrator, twenty nine publishers rejected his book in part because children's books of the time where out of style. Eventually he found a publisher in 1937. He received good reviews for the ... Yertle the Turtle", "Horton Hears a Who", "Fox In Socks". Years later the first Earth Day was celebrated and this influenced Seuss to write a book about helping the environment and proving a point that one person can make a change. Less than a year after the first Earth Day, he published "The Lorax"...

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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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... 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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... 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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... we cannot ignore the clear implication of the first line. Without further analysis we are caught between two different views of the primary subject of the book: i) that Achilles is the center of the story and that the rest of the text is simply filler and background, or ii) that the Iliad ... purpose. If the text of the Iliad were simply the story of Achilles and his actions in Troy, then an extremely large portion of the book would have to be labeled filler. The aristeias of Patroclus and Diomedes could be labeled as background, and they do function well as such. Diomedes ... motivated...

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... he was going to die, and it was a very scary experience for him. However, Paulsen did not die and lived to write about the incident in his book, The Madonna Stories (1988). Paulsen did not meet his father, Oscar Paulsen, until he was seven because he was away fighting in the Second World War. Paulsen ... asked him if he wanted a library card. He said yes; and when she asked him if he wanted to check out a book, he again said yes. The librarian gave him a book and told him to bring it back when he was done. Paulsen began reading books in the basement of his house. At first ... it took P...

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... with explicit material. They are petrified because they think that their children will go off and do the same things as a character in a book. The book "Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas," was on the edge of being ban off a Middle School in Oregon after Linda Rutherford, parent of an ... describes various levels of sexual activity in the fictional diary of a fourteen year old girl (Milam). According to Zach, a board member, read the book and he did not find it inappropriate. Instead he came to the conclusion that "it could be used as the beginning point in good discussions about the ... a...

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... battle. The 304th regiment marches to battle, after a long stay near a river. When they arrive at their destination Henry's, known throughout the book as the young soldier, regiment is brought almost immediately into battle, and the young soldier is boxed in and cannot escape and run away. The ... books end, and the symbolism behind the dead soldier in the woods maybe difficult concepts for children under fourteen. B. A person that enjoyed this book might also like The Killer Angels, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, because these are novels that go along with the time period and ...

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... the novels, she pursues an interesting "past vs. future" and "before vs. after" theme. It is almost as if the reader is forced to allow two different stories in each book. There is a "story A" and a "story B" in both. For instance, in Cat's Eye, "story A" is about Elaine's childhood, while "story B" is about Elaine's Adulthood. In Bodily Harm, this theme is also ... unique but it can bring forth quite some confusion. Fortunately, she keeps each chapter relatively short so that the transition between the two stories is not so drastic. It has already been established that the pasts of bot...

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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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... is of my Dad reading Peter Pan and The Little Tug Boat That Could (I think that was the name) as a little kid. I also remember my Dad reading the book Where the Wild Things Are. Those were the only books I liked. I am not sure how often I was read to, but I do not think it was too ... up with the class work. Just by finishing the reading, these students felt like they are up to date on what is happening in class and in the book. I also felt that I could contribute during discussions. This is how I felt anyway in the class and is why I thought this teacher had the most ... for class. Most...

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