... simply involve a person expressing their view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from a curriculum or a library (ALA 2). Who decides what books are banned? The American Library Association (ALA) collects information from sources, newspapers and reports submitted by individuals, who use the Challenge Database Form. All ... challenges are entered into a database. Reports of challenges from newspapers across the country are compiled which then are published in the "Banned Books Week Resource Guide". Challenges reported to the ALA by individuals are kept confidential. The ALA wi...

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... a way to eliminate the unwanted; however, it causes more negative than it eliminates. Censorship is very evident in literature, and more and more books are being banned each day. This is a major problem because of the effect it has on the children that will not be able to read the banned ... books. First of all, one person or a group of people, such as a government or a community, should not be able to decide what someone else reads ... bothered by book banning especially since some of her titles are included in the list, "It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the...

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... , people , 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 out that ... society he lives in . Montang questions the purpose of his job and society when an old women dies because of her love for books. Montang starts to realize how burning books is destructive. This is when his internal conflict messes with him more by questing his job as a fireman and trying to under...

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... by English writer John Lennon, perfectly delineates the state of mankind in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.This statement, with eyes symbolizing mental acquisitiveness, describes the world Bradbury portrays in which books are censored and ignorance has utterly overpowered intellect and curiosity. Through the use of the theme of censorship, the speaker in the novel Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates the results of complete ... reason such extreme censorship is implemented: to keep society happy and tension free. Knowledge is portrayed as dangerous and something which would obliterate the utter simpli...

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... by the future government. (2.) Guy Montag is a fireman who appears to be heartily supportive and contributive to the burning of books, which is normal because firemen in the conformist future burn books for a living. He meets Clarisse McClellan, a sixteen year old idealist with strong convictions against the social structure that oppresses ... dread this temperature because it destroys the one thing they"re trying to save. Ray Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 to symbolize censorship. Like the burning of books, censorship oppresses the ideas of many people. The whole book is a metaphor for wha...

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... and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and all that mush." (Bradbury 101) Gaining knowledge that arises from reading books can be dangerous, and the government doesn't want to put up with this risk. It shows that people are superior to others, but people ... 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 t...

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... destructive tool in this society. In this cases fire represents a purify tool, that firemen use to destroy contaminated things of the society. Furthermore, things like books and thoughts are the examples of things that are contamination of the society. In the book, Bradbury writes, " It was a special pleasure to see things ... to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history,"" about book burning. Because the government wants to get rid of the books, they use the firemen to burn all the books they can find. Another example of burning book in the story, an old woman says "we shall ...

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... and self-obsessed to the point where he promptly set his supervisor on fire. He is also very sensitive to the endless facts about books and other reading materials. While at the same time, indifferent to human feelings especially his wife, Mildred's senseless actions. The other major ... on different types of literature. Beatty is very articulate and passionate, which is shown through his conversation with Montag regarding the origins of books and using many evocative quotes to baffle Montag's thoughts and ideas. He is sympathetic about his understandings of the universe and the ways ...

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... manipulation, and still continuing today. But was it the buildings and the people that society believed? No, it has always been "the books". The books came to earth by god from the universe or written by divine people lead to small but necessary changes in the world. People believed in ... concrete and plausible ideas, which are mostly in the books. Ideas and knowledge make people question about their lives and enlightens them to see the faults in the society and the world. Besides humans as ... an obstacle for manipulation, the books were the most challenging barriers to lead the socie...

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... of the story, is content with his job as a "fire man." In actuality of course, he is one of the men who burns houses and the books that occupy them. Shortly thereafter, however, Guy begins to develop a friendship with his 16 year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan. She has such an outlook on human ... is 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 m...

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... The people of this town frown upon curiosity and don't tolerate 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 ... not create a closer relationship with his wife because of the effect that society has on her. Brainwashed Mildred finds out that her husband is reading books and turns him in. Montag kills the fire chief and flees from police. When he reaches the escape camp he meets new people that have the ......

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... and this makes him want to change throughout the story. The reason Clarisse asks this is because Montag is a fireman and he burns people's houses that they have books. He overlooks the fact that he is destroying people's property for a living. Montag goes home to Millie, his wife. They both don't love each other ... talk to Montag and totally ignores him. Montag finds out that Clarisse has been killed and he really gets upset. He tries to talk to his wife about books and ideas and what is wrong with society, but she is not interested. The next day Montag doesn't come to work and his boss...

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... same sex marriages legal, but they have been facing enormous difficulty because other people refuse to change their attitudes. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned by the government because the government does not want people to think for themselves. Clarisse, Faber, and Montag have a hard time because they ... minority and are attempting to 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 Fa...

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... being. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic United States. Some main characters in this novel are Guy Montag, Beatty, Faber, and Mildred. In the future, a fireman's job is to burn books, because it is against the law to read a book, or even own a book. Guy Montag, a fireman in the book Fahrenheit 451, has a very interesting personality that affects other characters differently ... affects every character in the novel a different way. Beatty, another fireman, sees Montag as a threat to his life of instant gratification because Montag wants society to stop burning books. Beatty love...

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... He is 30 years old and has been a fireman for 10 years. In this futuristic story, firemen, instead of putting out fires, they burn books which are now illegal. Books are illegal because the government believes that all people should have the same intelligence level, therefore anyone with any book is subject to their house being burned ... her when she pulls out a match and they all back away. She then does the unthinkable, strikes the match on the railing and burns herself, with her books, to ashes. The ride back to the firehouse is silent. No one has anything to say about the events tha...

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... The novel helps foreshadow a society that nobody would ever want. From reading its contents, censors might not want to challenge other books. Also, the censoring of this book goes against intellectual freedom. First, this book foreshadowing a society with books being banned. The people of this foreshadowed society from the book do not even know how to think, let alone make intellectual ... decisions. The government prohibits the books because people wanted the books banned; starting with books like Fahrenheit 451 which detail life like it could be. All the book does is displays the cons...

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... it is destroyed in hopes of building a literate society. Main Setting Montags house This is were guy Montag lives with his wife Millie Montag. Montag has hidden books in the air conditioning vent in his own home. He eventually brings them out and shows his wife. She calls the Firemen while he is at work ... his own house. He also kills Captain Beatty here. The City This is were Montag works. He goes and burns houses down of people that are hiding illegal books. He runs from the Mechanical Hound, through the city after he kills Captain Beatty. He escapes the city just before it is destroy...

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... talks to Montag about the history of the firemen and how they used to put out fires that would start by accident. After Beatty leaves, Montag takes books from his air vent that he has been storing over the years and scatters them over the floor, trying to get his wife to read with him ... . Later, he decides he wants to fight for the legalization of books. He meets with a friend named Faber who used to be a college professor when books were legal, and decides to create havoc by planting books in firemen's houses and calling in reports. Faber gives Montag an ear radio/microphone so ... he...

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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 of ... 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 door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running, she was not trying...

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... futuristic America where firemen do not put out fires but start them where socializing is considered odd and television is taking over people's minds and more importantly reading books is a crime. Guy Montag the main character of the book is a firefighter living day to day wounding whether he makes the right dissection in becoming ... a firefighter. The book makes anyone ask the question what would happen if it was a crime to read books and if socializing is odd. At the rate technology is going this book is becoming more and more real. In part one of Fahrenheit 451 the ... ;sick" Montag....

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... 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 ... beyond her years and it is obvious that it comes from both her love of conversation and from books, the very object that Montag must destroy. He is compelled to rethink the value of books and their usefulness. After Montag meets Clarisse, he begins to change. When...

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... 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 and thoughts. Bradbury is also a very symbolic writer who adds symbolism into his book. Bradbury's use of symbolism throughout the novel makes the book more ... at the start of the story takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman whose job is not to put out fires, but to start them by burning books and houses where they are kept illegally. Montag soon begins to question the value of his profession and his life. As he develops a friendship wit...

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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 dest...

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... Faulkner, burn them to ashes. That's our official slogan" (Bradbury 12). This is what the fireman, Guy Montag's, life was about. Guy Montag and his fellow fireman pillage homes for books to burn to create a bookless society. Montag's philosophies are drastically changed by the pondering questions of a "crazy" seventeen year old, Clarissa. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is an ... what he believes in, even though the consequences are great. Under the watchful eye of Beatty, fireman chief, Montag slips a book into his pocket while burning a house to alleviate the books. The i...

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... loved rather than giving one another the silent treatment. Another character that was greatly affected by the government was Faber. Faber was once a successful English professor until the government decided books were illegal because certain stories "offended" certain readers. Now he lives in a rundown dwelling in poverty. After the government took away literature, Faber began to call himself a coward for not ... Beatty is a book burner with much knowledge of literature seeing as he quotes many famous quotes from classics such as Julius Caesar while he explains to Montag the evils of bo...

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