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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Imagine living in a society where opinions and the concept of thinking were not accepted. A dystopia is an imagionary society where almost everyone and everything is suffering and nothing is pleasant. Some of the more common types of distopian literature can be found in Fahrenheit 451, ranging from propaganda to utopian illusions. Author Ray Bradbury's main intention for writing this novel was to convey the message that books are slowly becoming second nature. The message that this story gives is that technology is beginning to become a replacement for books, and people are beginning to read a lot less and to use technology as an alternate or shortcut for reading. Books are a top resource for opinions. The society in Fahrenheit 451 …show more content…

There are definitely advantages and disadvantages about the burning of books. Beatty shares his take about books in general and how it's just one author arguing with another. "They're [books] about nonexistant people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if nonfiction, it's worse, one profesor calling an idiot, one philosopher screming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the star and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost." (Page 59) In this part of the book, Beatty is explaining to Montag how foolish it is to read a book. He also explains that he "had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing!" (Page 59) By scorching books, the society is terminating all opinions and controversies that are associated with them. Although the burning of books is viewed as a positive action throughout the society, there is a protagonist in this story. In this particular novel, Guy Montag serves as the protagonist, and he calls out the society as potentially doing the wrong thing. Montag proposes an objection to burning books, questioning if it is a good or correct way. "Montag only said, "We never burned right…." (Page 113) Montag questions what qualifies to be burned. Is it just books? Should absolutly anything that is affiliated with an opinion be burned? The society is burning books to get rid of all opinions so …show more content…

The challenge from the author is for us to admit to ourselves that technology, believe it or not, has a major effect on how we live and how we act. Us humans are beginnig to use electronics as an alternate for reading, which is the point that Ray Bradbury is trying to make in his novel. "I had a nice evening," she said, in the bathroom. What doing? The parlor. What was on? Programs. What programs? Some of the best ever." (Page 46) The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a fictional story that explains what the world is currently like, the technology that surrounds it, and how we neglect books. Is there a way to control this

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Montag claims that it was a good feeling to burn. “It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.(Bradbury pg1). Montag was a follower and he enjoyed to burn houses and people who had books when he was with the other firemen. Clarisse claims that books should not be against the law.” Do you mind if I ask ?...

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Beatty explains to Montag that every fireman wonders what books have to offer at some point in their career, and proceeds to tell him why books were banned in the first place. People would object to books that offended them and soon all books looked that same, but that wasn't good enough. Society decided to burn all book to prevent conflicting opinions. Beatty gives Montag to see if the books he had stolen had anything special about them and then to turn them in to be burned.

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(STEWE-2) Besides asking questions about society’s relationships, Montag questions further and starts asking about society’s rules on burning books after he experiences a woman burn with her books. He says to Mildred, “'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.'" (Bradbury 48). Montag, before, had blindly followed and enforced society’s rules about burning books.

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A novel called Fahrenheit 451 is written by Ray Bradbury who is an author famous for writing diverse genres of books such as fantasy, science, horror, and mystery fiction. Fahrenheit 451 was his number one hit because of the uniqueness of the story. The story of Fahrenheit is about a fireman named Guy Montag, who lives in a society where books are banned. The story starts off with an interesting quote “It was a pleasure to burn”, which I found it great as a hook.

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Beatty instructs Montag and demands, “Burn all, burn everything… Fire is bright, and fire is clean” (Bradbury 57). Moreover, this piece of evidence implies that fire is a solution to the increase in the number of wanted books. He [Montag] is starting to change his perspective about book banning and burning. Montag seems uninterested and fears the possible consequences his actions could have.

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In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Instead of reading, this society watches a big portion of television as big as the wall and listens to the radio attached to their ears. It is not normal for pedestrians to talk and have meaningful conversations until Montag met a 17 year old teenager named Clarisse McClellan. Montag sees Clarisse as a strange girl that opened up his thoughts. She asked him about his work and what made him become a fireman which nobody has really asked him. After the meeting with Clarisse many events started to happen to him, his wife Mildred tried to commit suicide with pills, a woman that hid books in her home decides to burn alive with her books, and Clarisse is killed in a car accident.

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In Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury, the concept of book burning is manifested to a great extent. The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose primary job is to burn books and start fires, rather than prevent them. This is because books are illegal in the world presented in Fahrenheit 451. The supposed reason for this is to restrict the thoughts and thinking of everyone and limit their questioning. Book burning is not something contemporary but dates back to hundreds of years ago.

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In the book, firemen are manned with flamethrowers instead of fire extinguishers to burn books. People are brainwashed that books are dangerous and that they must be destroyed. Several book burning incidents in his lifetime had influenced Bradbury to plot the story in this way. According to Weller (2013), Bradbury wrote about the influence of Hitler’s and Stalin’s book burnings in a later introduction to Fahrenheit 451 which was published in 1966. This clearly shows that book burning was at the forefront of his mind when he wrote his novel.

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