Fahrenheit 451 Artifact Analysis

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My artifact was an essay about Fahrenheit 451 answering the prompt, ”are we happy or just distracted?” I had to argue whether or not people were or were not happy with evidence cited from the book itself. I learned that people in the book were not happy but chose to distract themselves as shown through their actions. I was able to find evidence easily by looking through my annotations and picking out evidence that relates to my prompt. My essay’s main idea was to show the importance of happiness and why it is important. Happiness is necessary because it is what motivates a person to keep moving forward and why life's worth living.

I chose this prompt because I was surprised happiness played such a big role in the story and in the lives of