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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In the Novel "Fahrenheit 451" Ray Bradbury uses ideas from World War II, The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the Red Scare to develop some of the ideas in the novel. He does this because the book was written when the world was familiar with these things. After all, these events had happened to them not long ago. One of the main ideas in the society of Fahrenheit 451 is that books are bad and they should be burned. In "The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933: The American Response", Guy Stern states that people from Wilhelm Humboldt University tossed thousands of books into a bonfire because they conveyed propaganda. This links back to Fahrenheit 451 because they believed that all books were bad whereas the students believed that some of
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