Name: Simon Hakimian
Block: 8/9B
Fahrenheit 451 Graded Discussion
**Please note: You must PRINT AND BRING a paper version of this assignment for the discussion--you will receive late credit if you forget and need to use your Chromebook.
Part I Directions: Prepare your responses to the three questions below.
You may use bullet points, but you must also incorporate direct textual evidence from F451.
You should write out quotes and offer explanation/analysis for each quote.
Please be sure you use MLA internal citation to cite your quotations.
You don’t need fancy quote integration→ For example: Montag says, “...” (Bradbury 34).
Each response should have a minimum of three pieces of textual evidence you’ve pulled. You will
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“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 3). Montag enjoys his life of destruction at first, and nobody is directly harmed by it. After discovering books, this all changed. Montag eventually loses it, kills Beatty (119), and runs from the law (137-179). Montag lost everything: his wife, his house, his job, his friends, his entire life! Montag’s life was most affected by the presence of books, and the deletion of all previous ignorance, because with the addition of education, Montag’s life became a complete misery he wished to get out of.
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Bradbury states, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” After reading Fahrenheit 451 in its entirety, do you agree or disagree with this statement? Did reading this book change your view? IF so, how and why? Or, if your views remained the same, how did the novel reinforce your ideas? Finally, do you believe Bradbury’s warning about destroying a culture has come true?
After reading this book, my view has changed on this statement and I agree with it. Reading this book has changed my view because I now believe after reading this book, books are pointless if no one reads