... censorship has been taken 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 incident in which Guy Montag, the main character meets Clarisse ... Montag didn't know. He managed to save his wife by calling the emergency squad to have her stomach pumped. The next morning Montag questions his wife about the previous night, and her action, she becomes un...

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... . Generally, they are fascinated by who they are and what they do. Yet, in Fahrenheit 451, as Montag says, Clarisses favorite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else and me. This suggests that Montag recognizes in Clarisse a unique individual, someone who genuinely cares about other people. It is this characteristic selflessness that attracts Montag to her and helps him recognize that there is more to ... in the books that he is obliged to destroy, he begins to open up to a world of greater possibilities. That world, though dissimilar to Clarisses and her family life, is one that al...

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• Grade Level: High School