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Fahrenheit 451 And Mildred's Relationship

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In my first theory Bradbury provides us a view inside of their characteristics. it teaches the reader what happens when we lose books. It takes away what makes us human like our imagination, creativity, and our happiness. we see this like when we see how guy Montag's and Mildred's relationship. we see this because we see how Montag has kind of lost his love for Mildred. we see this when Bradbury shows us in part two that Montag had lost all his feeling for Mildred. Bradbury also shows us that when we see Clarisse and guy interaction. we can see a new guy. Bradbury shows this in part one of the book fahrehiet 451. We see guy change over the time with Clarisse and through the book. We can also see that because guy was always different we find
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