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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Film-Novel Analysis Essay of “Fahrenheit 451” “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is a story about a fireman named Guy Montag, who lived in a world where reading books was illegal. Guy’s job was to burn any book that was found. On the way home from work, Montag met Clarisse, his neighbor, and he started a conversation with him. Suddenly, a few days later, Montag found his wife unconscious on the floor because she took too many pills. As the story progressed, Clarisse helped Montag realize that books were not as bad as the government said, and so Montag started reading books. One day, while on the job, Montag and the other firemen came to this house full of books. The woman who lived there loved her books so much that she decided to burn her house and die with them. Not long after that incident, Linda (Mildred in the book), Montag’s wife turned Montag in for reading books. This led to a struggle at Montag’s house between Beatty and him. Montag got away while his house burned. Montag then escaped down the river where he met the book people. There, he was safe and Clarisse was there too. He then stayed there and the book “Tales of Mystery & Imagination” by Edgar Allen Poe came out. …show more content…

A second possible theme could be “don’t judge a person by their outer appearance.” At first, Captain Beatty believed Montag was loyal enough for a promotion. As the story went on, Montag was actually doing something illegal. Montag also asked to resign from being a fireman and in the end, Captain Beatty found out about his secret

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However, he was forced to continue his task as he was in the company of other firemen. Despite this, he mindlessly smuggles a book out of the burning home before leaving. That night, Montag begins to realize that his marriage has completely fallen apart, and both he and his wife were empty, lonely people. He remembers the night she had overdosed, and that “he was certain he wouldn’t cry” if she were to have died then (41). These overwhelming discoveries are, of course, prompted by everything Clarisse had previously told him.

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Clarisse got Montag to start observing, thinking, and exploring for himself. Mildred, instead, takes his new way of thinking and tries to squash it. This is seen when Montag arrives at his house with the fellow firemen to find out that he has to burn his own home. He

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Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 over fifty years ago, yet he captured many attributes of our modern society with such authenticity it is hard to believe he imagined it. The parallels between the world of history and the world we live in are hard to ignore. Bradbury describes the entertainment devices adhering to today’s society. First, Bradbury states, “Behind her, the walls of the room were flooded with green, yellow, and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap drums, tom toms, and cymbals” (Bradbury 29). Bradbury’s description suggests the walls are similar to a television.

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Many people live happy and healthy lives, but not everyone is as lucky. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book about Montag who is a firefighter that burns books. He lives in a dystopian society where happiness is the same for everyone, and the people in his society do not think for themselves. Montag does not know how to act or how he feels. Clarisse, and Mildred both impact Montag in different and unique ways.

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Montag got caught by the captain of the fireman’s department, Beatty. Montag ends up killing Beatty in order to escape, and he meets a few people down by the river and joins their community, living in the shadows. Throughout the novel Bradbury uses language to express the

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The novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury expresses several different ideas throughout the course of the story, all relating to one another. In the beginning, the main idea is that the firemen are saying that their job is rightly justified. In the middle of the book, curiosity fills the mind of the main character Guy Montag; which leads to the conclusion of the book where Montag reaches enlightenment. In the novel, Montag experiences many changes in his perspective on the fate of books. Characters such as Clarisse, Beatty, Faber and Granger contribute to Montag’s journey of transitioning from ignorance to enlightenment.

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In this excerpt from Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury develops Montag’s character by using a disgruntled tone that reveals how Montag's emotions are affected by his job as a firefighter and by raising a question to readers, which alludes to the fact that Montag is no longer content with living in his naïve society. The phrase “boom! It's all over.” elicits that Montag understands that someone poured themselves into their writing, and firefighters come to extinguish their words without a second thought. It is simply gone, in a minuscule amount of time. He shows remorse for the books he burned, and sees the burnings from a new perspective- that books are valued.

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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury wrote the book Fahrenheit 451.This book is both really interesting and confusing. Throughout the book you get really confused how what’s going on. The whole storyline is very creative though. At the beginning of the book it’s hard to catch on to what’s going on.

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She refused to leave, and died in the fire. In the process of burning the books, Montag stole a book. He was a fireman and his duty was to burn books, but he took one instead. He was in such disbelief that he blamed his own hand which “had a brain of its own” (Bradbury 37). From this point, Montag was a different person.

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Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.

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On a very normal day for Montag after successfully burning a number of books he has an interaction with Clarisse McClellan, his neighbor. One could call Clarisse a loner but she is also an avid reader. Clarisse being a reader puts Montag in a tough spot, since he burns the books she reads. Clarisse asks him “do you ever read any of the books you burn?” (8).

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This developed a new way of thinking for Montag where he began to question his work and the meaning behind the book burning. After meeting Clarisse, traumatic events begin to occur around Montag. His wife tries to commit suicide by taking prescriptions pills then a woman who was hiding books in her home decides to burn alive

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