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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury. The book is based on a futuristic American fireman who burn book and set fires ; instead of putting out fires and saving lives. In the book the main society standards are to drive very fast, watch excessive amount of television on large wall like set and listen to the radio on "seashell radio" with ear buds attached to their ears. People in this futuristic society do not read books, enjoy nature , spend time by themselves , think independently or have meaningful for conversation. A lot of the standards start to affect the main character Guy Montag.
He is the protagonist Fahrenheit 451. Montag is also named after a paper manufacturing company. At the beginning of the book Montag meets a young lady name Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse McClellan is a seven-year-old who is an outcast from society because of her odd habits like hiking, playing with flowers, and asking questions. But in her "odd" family they seem genuinely happy with each other and themselves. She begins to start a conversation with Montag , asking him questions and about job making him nervous. One specific question she ask was "are you happy?" this leaves Montag pondering. Once he gets home he realizes that his …show more content…

He accidentally kicks an empty bottle of sleeping pills in there and calls the hospital just as a sonic boom. Two cynical hospital workers arrive with a machine that pumps Mildred’s stomach and another that replaces all her poisoned blood with fresh blood. Montag goes outside and listens to the laughter and the voices coming from the brightly lit McClellan house. Montag goes inside again and considers all that has happened to him that night. He feels terribly disoriented as he takes a sleep lozenge and dozes off. After this event he starts to respond to things

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Foremost, Mildred helps Montag find himself. When Montag first realizes that there is no connection between him and Mildred he loses feelings for her. He soon realizes that their relationship is pushing each other apart. “And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry”(Bradbury 41).

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“Fahrenheit 451” is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist in this novel is named Montag and in his community people are forbidden from being different and reading books. Everyone has parlours, monitors, seashells and other sorts of technology. Montag is a fireman but rather than putting out fires he starts them to burn books. At the start of the novel Montag enjoys his life until he encounters Clarisse and some others, he then gets a different perspective on life and steals a book.

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Through the entirety of Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, nearly every rebellious thought, action, and revelation that displayed Montag's character growth can stem from his relationship with Clarisse McClellan. It was through the inspiration and prodding of the ebulliently curious teen that prompted Montag to start making changes in his life by simply allowing himself to really think about things. She was the one who truly opened his eyes to the world, causing him to loathe what his society had become, and tread the path of self-discovery. Be as it may that there were other figures of inspiration that helped guide Montag later on in the novel, such as Faber and Granger, it is all thanks to Clarisse that Montag's initially suppressed character

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Neil Gaiman was inspired by Ray Bradbury’s ideas and wrote, “Ideas—written ideas—are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our thoughts from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human”. Set in the twenty-fourth century, author Ray Bradbury introduced a society where the media controlled the public and censorship had taken over.

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Montag is talking to Mildred, and she just keeps interrupting him over and over. “Oh, I wouldn’t do that” (Bradbury, 17). Montag is letting Mildred know about her OD and she keeps denying everything he is saying and arguing with him. “He heard her role impatiently” (Bradbury, 38). Montag comes home from a rough day of work and all Mildrid can do is demand that he turn the light on, and when he

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In society, some people have conflicts with things and people around them. In Fahrenheit 451, the main character, Montag, has to burn books for a living. Montag’s life began to change when he has a decision to steal, hide, and read the books, or turn the books in and act like everyone else. Ray Bradbury shows Montag’s conflict with his wife, a friend, and technology in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury uses Mildred, Montag’s wife, to show how everyone there is like robots.

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When Clarisse asks Montag about the rumor of firefighters putting out flames, he laughs at her and says to her “You are an odd one.” After this encounter, Montag becomes more aware of what is going on, so he talks to his wife, Mildred. During this talk, Montag shares his inquiries with Mildred hoping to make sense of what

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Clarisse McClellan is the most significant character in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Clarisse plays a huge role in the storyline as she is the reason of Montag’s metamorphosis. She does this by making Montag question his surroundings, being a role model and changing Montag’s emotions towards others. Clarisse’s role and impact on Montag makes the most Important character.

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He lives what he thinks is a happy life with a good job and a good relationship with his wife Mildred, who is addicted to the parlour which she calls her “family”. The parlour is like a television on 3 walls that is in three dimensions so it is very realistic. The two live in a house next to a young girl named Clarisse and her family. Clarisse talks to Montag about being a fireman and how he became a fireman. Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy and his immediate response is yes, but Montag thinks about the question for a very long time.

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Montag sees Mildred, his wife, and asks her, “Mildred, you didn't put in the alarm!” but there was no answer back. Montag realizes that he can no longer trust his own wife. Montag becomes so upset that instead of burning his own house down, he burns captain Beatty to death. Montag does not realize that he has also burned Faber to death too.

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Wwtwdwb? What Would the World do without Books? In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we come as close as possible to really seeing what it would be like to live in a world where books are outlawed and some of the major consequences that one would have to endure should they be found with books in their possession. In this story a young and vibrant Clarisse tries to help Montag, a very confused fire fighter find his way in the messed up society they live in. After a series of events such as the old women taking a stand and burning her house, the shear terror people have about books, and a simple earpiece being shattered, a twist of events occurs with the head firefighter, Beatty, and Montag has to try and outrun the very people he used

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Just as Montag and Clarisse were getting closer, she suddenly passes away which comes as a complete shock to him. “He had chills and fever in the morning,” Montag felt physically ill after hearing about the news of Clarisse’s death. He hears about her death from Mildred who supposedly forgot to tell him. He is taken aback by this and continues to question her as he can not seem to process this. This motivates him as he does not want to live a meaningless life where he will just die.

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Through out the book F451, Montag changes in the book and becomes more aware of his surroundings than he was in the beginning of the novel. Through out the book, events occur that change his mind about burning. The theme of the story is knowledge is what is important to his society and without it, they would be no different from one another. When Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse, who tells him the wonders of the world and what life used to be like (and should be like) in his society.

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Science fiction shows people ideal of society in a unique futuristic lifestyle. This lifestyle changes normal people’s way of thinking and make people question why is it the way it is. These ideas could be about how there would be problems with technology or other problems. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s book contains all the clues and answers that can be found for these questions. Bradbury uses the futuristic society where people cannot possess books in order to reflect some of the methods of the people’s lifestyle of the future.

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In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, who at first conforms to societal standards without question or concern, transforms into a character who deviates from their standards to rebel and question; he discerns that when one diverges from the norm, they can question and rebel. Montags originally conforms completely without doubt or question. He learns from the books and begins to doubt and question the ideals he once upheld. Upon his choice to rebel against the dystopia, Montag escalates the impact and size of his personal rebellions. The realization that he is a mirror image of the ideologies imposed upon himself and the citizens prompts a vindictive mutiny against the oppressive government.

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