... waiting for the instruction from a pedestrian signal to cross the road. The people were painted in shades of gray; they had straight and emotionless faces, and looked more like the walking dead. The Centers of Modernism Modernism reached the United States in 1913 in the form of the Armory Show and consisted of abstract paintings by not-so well-known American and ... of the 1930s had an impact on America's modernism. People migrated in new ways in search of jobs to big cities and literature too was influenced where we saw often a man with a buried past who made a survival at the edge of ...

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... the same country, Slovakia. Even so they marched behind two American flags, one on either side. They specifically made sure of this because they realized that a large group of foreigners walking down the street in protest was not going to gain much support. Logically, they thought that the sheriff would realize through the use of the flags that the march embodied ... the American ideals of power to the masses and back off. The sheriff and his men did the exact opposite; they tried to scare the marchers with violence, beating one man so badly that he could not use his arms for months aft...

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... world is our maximum speed today. "Drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly" (p. 9). It is said in the novel that a man was arrested for being a pedestrian and walking. It is as if these people are being forced to move. "Conflicting theory and thought" makes people unhappy (p. 62): this is what the government thinks, but they ... countless suicides. They "drown in [their] bright happiness" (p. 153). Everyone "wanted to die" (p. 122). But what they do not realize was that since they were all empty, they are already dead. In Fahrenheit 451, people a...

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• Grade Level: High School