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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The Dystopian name of this book is called “Fahrenheit 451”, By Ray Bradbury. The main character of the book is a fireman. The theme of the book is about a fireman that his job is to burn books , and books are against the law, It’s a world with no knowledge. The fireman has no emotion, he doesn’t pay attention around his society. Since Montag burns book for living people wonder if he reads or hides books. “ Do you ever read any of the books you burn? He laughed. That’s against the law! Page 12”. Montag has being brainwashed to burn books in his dystopian world. Since he haven’t read or even dare to open a book, he doesn’t realize what happens around him because he’s just like everyone else. As a result Montag started to hide books around his house and tries to find someone that can understand him about books. …show more content…

Blakes burn herself with the books. Montag is reading and hiding books that are against the law and he is putting himself in a very risky position. He changes emotionally and physically after he got the book from Ms. Blake's house. Then he and the others fireman's were arriving to Ms. Blake’s, to destroyed the books she being hiding, “ Foo! Thought Montag to himself, you’ll give it away. At this last fire, a book of fairy tales, heal glanced at a single line”. Page 38 I personally think Montag is acting different now that he is reading books, and is now slowly opening his mind and realizing what’s going on around him and his dystopian

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Swing 1 Fahrenheit 451 The story fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury. In this story Guy Montag and the rest of the fire team burned books for a living. In this story firemen were meant to burn books. The reasoning for this is because the Government had the thought that books were very bad for the people.

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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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He has always been secretly hoarding books; however, when a book landed in his hands in Mrs. Blake’s attic, “Montag’s hand… crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest… Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief. ” (37). His unconscious action drives Montag into his departure where he grows curious of the knowledge hidden within the text.

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The novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian society that strictly forbids reading or have a printed book in your possession. The protagonist named Guy Montag, is a firefighter who burns any illegal books that are found. Montag in the beginning of the novel is an average citizen who hates books and does not understand the true value of them. He is known as a salamander, Montag can walk among the books he is burning, but he won’t get affected by them. But as the story continues, he begins his transformation.

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The novel, Fahrenheit 451, presents a future society where books are prohibited and the firemen burn any that are. The title is the temperature at which books burn. It was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in October 1953. In this novel, protagonist Montag changes his understanding in various aspects such as love or his human relationship throughout the book. However, among all of these, fire – the main theme of this novel – has the most significance as it also changes his understanding of knowledge from books.

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Ray Bradbury is trying to foreshadow Montag's change of heart when it comes to reading/keeping books. He is trying to lead the readers to the conclusion of Montag getting influenced by Clarisse’s wonder. Later on in the novel, Montag and his crew is on their way to an old woman’s house. She has many books and the crew finds them. They douse them in kerosene, ready to light, yet the woman decides to stay in the house with her books “I want to stay here,” (39).

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Over time, Montag started to have a large amount of books he had taken. He was stashing them in his house. Montag hid the books in the most nonchalant places, where nobody would expect the books to be. He became obsessed with obsessed with reading. Which made him realize that people are missing out on something so important, and valuable knowledge wise.

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Just Follow That Path Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which paper burns (Bradbury). In this novel many characters experience change; however, like most people say change can only come with time and in the end that is what really happens, time is what allows the change to occur. Guy Montag, a fireman of his city is discovering his true inner self as he meets new people and discovers the mysteries that are hidden from others, also known as the banned books which no individual is allowed access to. Although where Montag is from, it is not a fireman’s duty to put out fires, but rather to burn books or also set the fires instead of extinguish them. Throughout this book, Montag changes his perception of literature in his society from being the

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But now that he sees someone’s life be taken by his enforcement, he starts putting in hard consideration about the very things that are against the laws of his own society and wonders why exactly his society would ban books. (STEWE-3) Eventually, he questions his society so much that Montag starts rebelling by reading books against the rules, now determined to find the answers to his questions about

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In the beginning of the book, Montag meets an eccentric young girl, named Clarisse, who slowly changes the way he thinks about his world. On the very first page, as Montag is destroying a pile of books, he thinks“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed,”(1). Being a fireman, Montag extinguishes books for a living. He enjoys burning the writing that’s forbidden. Due to the government’s harsh censorship of books, no one learns, and nothing changes.

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He wasn’t very fun or interesting in the beginning. He also doesn’t care for books. Infact no one did! Montag believed what everybody else in the town did. That burning books was for the good, that no one needed books.

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Instead of hating books and wanting to burn them, he wanted to read them. This was the major change Montag had throughout the whole book. His perspective of books changed which made him see the world differently. Montag became braver because of this. He was so traumatized by Mrs. Blake’s death in the fire

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I recently read a book by the name of Fahrenheit 451, and I think that you should read it as well. This is an action packed book about a character by the name of Montag going against society by… reading books. In his world books are banned because society doesn’t want the people to know the real truth. But Montag manages to get hold of a couple books without anyone knowing. Later on his Captain, Beatty, who knows of Montag's rebellious ideas, brings Montag to his own house and manages to bait him into burning it down.

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Montag internally conflicts with himself as he gradually begins to consider what books truly have to offer. For instance, “A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open… Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel… Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.”

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