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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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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. 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 …show more content…

On Granger’s miniature television the news displayed this, “The mechanical hound rushed forward into the viewer, suddenly. The helicopter lights shot down a dozen brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man” (Bradbury 142). This sentence shows that random man is being captured by a hound. Through further reading you will find out that they captured murdered this man because they couldn't find their suspect, Montag, and that the chase had to come to an end or else the viewers would no longer respect them. They specifically chose that man because he wasn't like the rest of the community, he thought for himself, and was not the regular zombie brainwashed by the government. This quote supports the guiding statement because they purposely killed a man, taking away his freedom, just so they could

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Trinity Wielgus Describe Montag’s escape from his city & Beatty: Montag gets the idea of escaping from Faber persuading him. Montag wants to leave because Beatty caught him and told him to start a fire on his own house due to him having books. Beatty was saying mean things and hitting Montag and he got fed up with him doing it. In response to Beatty, Montag turns the fire towards Beatty to burn him to death. Montag tries to make a run for it and nobody would've said anything in that moment but the mechanical hound got him in the leg causing numbness making it hard for Montag to escape.

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And then he was a shrieking blaze” (Bradbury 113). Montag’s last encounter with Beatty pushed him over the edge by first threatening to find Faber and kill him, which made Montag turn off the safety switch (STEWE-2) After killing Beatty, the government labeled Montag a criminal. “He was three hundred yards downstream when the Hound reached the river” (Bradbury 133). Montag acts against his society by running away from the punishment they have decided to give him. Montag did all of this because he was also looking for real people, people such as Clarisse.

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And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him." (Bradbury 119) This is one of the most essential events in the story because it shows Montag later in the story that Beaty didn't do much to prevent his death; he even mentions that it's as if he wanted it to happen. This also demonstrates how satisfied the characters are with themselves in the story. At the very end of the novel, Montag decides to run from the town after being chased down by policemen trying to find him.

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, the reader explores the dystopian world following Guy Montag as he struggles with his identity as a fireman, a burner of books. In the passage on page 132, Bradbury compares Montag as a wild animal to emphasize how he has left the unnatural man made world of destruction, unhappiness, and death that he once lived in. Montag has just escaped from the mechanical hound and now finds himself outside of the city, in the wilderness. As Montag stands before the fire, he feels a “foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire” (1). The “foolish[ness]” he feels suggests that although Montag’s days of taking pleasure in burning books have ended,

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Bradbury wanted to emphasize the dangerous world of F451. Clarisse was killed by the “normal” people who live without care for others. In the beginning of the book, Clarisse says to Montag, “ I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other” (30). Bradbury sets Clarisse apart from the other children.

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Fahrenheit 451, the award winning book by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a futuristic suburban city in the twenty fourth century, during a major war that is downplayed by society. The antagonist, a fireman named Guy Montag, lived in a time where books are illegal, people didn't think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they were more concerned with work so they could pay for wall-sized televisions, newer cars, and radios the size of seashells. As a fireman, Guy actually started fires instead of putting them out. Firefighters at that time responded to emergency calls, that reported the locations of books, and the firefighters burned them.

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Playing video games, watching Youtube, surfing the web, looking at social media and watching TV are what people spend nearly all their spare time doing. Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a book about a world in which education and knowledge have been tossed aside in the pursuit of entertainment. The book can be seen as a warning about how social interactions have decreased and how people have become too obsessed with entertainment. Bradbury shows how dreadful it would be if people ceased to socialize with one another by exaggerating the apathy the people of Fahrenheit 451. An example of their lack of interaction with one another is among the families in the book.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book that opens ideas about futuristic technology and predicts what lives would be like with advanced technology. In this society, they have many technological advancements like, Bluetooth and big TV walls, but with those there comes circumstances like: people not doing stuff on their own, they listen to what other people say instead of researching facts themselves, suicide is a regular occurrence, and people don’t care about gaining any knowledge. The firemen that burn down houses think they are stopping people from reading books, but now the people just don’t care to read books or gain knowledge from them. This book predicts today’s society and most predictions made are very true, from the technological advance we have to the way people act.

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In Ray Bradbury’s perplexing and intuitive novel, Fahrenheit 451, he explores many intriguing themes. He uses a variety of literary devices to increase the reader’s knowledge of the characters and the society in which they live. The characterization of Mildred and Clarisse is used through narrative description and dialogue to develop the theme of a society that no longer uses its own intellectual capability to think or question. He implies that without thinking the citizens in this society unknowingly restrict their emotional and mental growth, as well as create danger.

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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury commits a defensible crime in which the destructive machine objective denotes the truth behind reading and thinking. The role of a fireman which represents the eyes of the government is to deceive people into thinking that books is a danger for the society at which, given point can influence the mind of the individuals in respective to their beliefs and morals conceive by the government. Fireman’s duty is to destroy knowledge and therefore promote ignorance as a benefit to the government system in order to equalize the population and promote sameness. Books repressed the unfolded truth which claims reading and thinking is the disruption of the society. The author Ray Bradbury, addresses

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