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Taking a Stand with Votes and Arguments (Attention Getter quote) “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. You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury 47). (Background) In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a firefighter in a dystopian future society where the firefighters burn books because they are illegal, for the first few years of his job he's satisfied and thinks he's happy; but after sometime and learning the dark truth Montag completely begins to change. (Preview Main Points) (1) First, Montag realizes he isn’t happy after talking to Clarisse and he begins to steal books and read them. 2. Second, Montag finds Faber and conspires with him and learns about society long ago and books …show more content…

(Commentary - 3 Connect Theme) This leads to Montag questioning the authority over him and the society he lives in, as he realizes how corrupt everything is he begins to make a change in everything in his life as he opens his eyes. (Assertion – Claim about Main Point) After Montag has been secretly reading books for a while to learn more, some of Mildred's friends come over and he listens to their shallow conversions with no meaning, he gets frustrated and reads some poetry to them and they get scared. (Lead-in/Quote Integration) Montag is speaking to Faber over the ear piece, he says, (Evidence) “Scare the hell out of them, that’s what, scare the living daylights out!” (Citation) (Bradbury, 95) (Commentary - 1 Explain Evidence) By reading them poetry, he wants to shock them so they will start thinking or have a realization. Montag reads them the poetry to make them think for once after observing their shallow conversations and thoughts, and soon Mildred's friends get scared as they don’t know how to process the

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He later meets a girl named clarisse who changed his perspective about society and the way it was run. As time goes on Montag struggles with his job as a fireman, burning books instead of fighting fires. He wants to learn more about books to know what he is missing. He steals dozens of books to learn more of what’s in them and later befriends a retired college professor who helps him go against society. Through

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How and why Montag broke the law is he had been hiding a bunch of books from his wife. Since he couldn't hide anymore after Beatty speech, he had to show her the books he had been hiding for a longtime. Him keeping the books is the reason why Montag broke the law and the laws doesn't allow people to keep books. The two people Montag confides in is his wife Mildred and Faber. The author wrote, "When he was done he looked down upon some twenty books lying at his wife's feet."

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Montag is starting to realize his lack of knowledge in his own world. He starts to realize it even more later in the book. After Mildred got a phone call, she knew what it was for. She said “Ann”. she laughed.

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(MIP-1): In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Montag starts out as a flawed person who agrees with his society. (SIP-A): Montag is a person who agrees with his society. (STEWE-1): Montag enjoys his job as a fireman in his society, “It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). He is fond of the smell of kerosene and enjoys burning books and houses.

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Suddenly things he did every day without hesitation seemed silly. This is when the reader finally is able to identify the theme. For a while, it seems as though it is Montag against the world. The only person who could possibly understand him, Clarisse ,was murdered. His Family isn't an option and his wife Mildred was a lost cause.

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How Does Mildred Represent Society? Is there anyone that you know who truly represents the role of society as a whole? As the main character in Fahrenheit 451 who accurately portrays the world in which Montag lives, Mildred serves a prime example of someone like this. Mildred’s multi-faceted personality provides a glimpse of the easily-influenced and corrupt society. Her overuse of technology causes naivety, and the ignorant people with which she surrounds herself with played the role of deceiving her into hating knowledge, cultivating her hatred for books.

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Are you a bad person if you conform to a dystopian society, without knowing it is wrong? Clarisse McClellan embraces her curious personality, which makes her a rebel. Mildred Montages benighted personality makes her a conventional society member. The curious personality of Clarisse and benighted personality of Mildred show that different people have different experiences in the same society. Clarisse McClellan’s curious personality makes her rebellious in the dystopian society.

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This illustrates Montag’s strife in society. In some scenes, though we can see that Montag wishes to break this cycle of consonance he sees by bringing knowledge to the ignorant minds of the society he is so present. Page 94 is a great example of Montag's wish to spread the intelligence he has so far gained. Montag, in this scene, is faced with the ignorance of 3 women in his house, they talk about non-sensible things that anger Montag. His gained understanding and consciousness brings him to present a book of poems to the 3 women and read it to them.

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Mildred does not see how their relationship is being interfered with by the technology. Because she is too involved with her ‘family’, and their nonsense that they are making her believe. The readers also see how relationships are becoming the victims to technology when Mildred and her friends are over. Montag decides he has had enough of hearing the women talk about their lives, and how everything must revolve around them. So he decides to read a poem.

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His contact with a 17 year old girl named Clarisse McClellan, an elderly woman who was willing to die for her books, and an old professor named Faber, help Montag start to question things and begin a transformation that takes him from the rule following, book burner; to an idea challenging, book reader

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The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a futuristic world in which books are banned, free thought is rare, and firemen burn books. The main character, Guy Montag, reevaluates himself after he sees how curiosity can affect you. This happens when he meets Clarisse, his new neighbor. Clarisse is outgoing and got Guy to think for himself. Guy’s wife Mildred, however, lets the parlor walls think for her.

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After talking to an outcast of a teen girl, Clarisse, who taught Montag to muse about the world in a different way and reading for the first time. He starts to depict his society and life in different ways. He watches as his wife, and her friends have no real human connections, but will lock themselves in the parlor rooms and watch the walls for hours then fall asleep with the seashell radios in their ears. During the novel, we see small moments where Mildred, Montag's wife, slightly rebels and will read with Montag but due to the fact that she has been watching the walls for so long she is too corrupted she does not take in the knowledge or take in to tuition the little negligible sights, and sounds in her life. So in the novel author Ray Bradbury uses the alienation of technology in order to explore the idea that technology corrupts natural human

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At the beginning of “Fahrenheit 451,” Montag is ignorant. He burns books for a living as a firefighter and does not question society. He sees this world as normal and follows as such He even enjoys seeing the burning taking place. His obedience towards society is shown when he is talking to Clarisse about his job: “‘Do you ever read any of the books you burn’ He laughed ‘That’s against the law’ ‘Oh. Of course’ ‘It’s fine work.

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Montag is a newborn phoenix, risen from it’s ashes, ready to begin a new life the moment he destroyed his own home, which are full of memories that’s to be left behind forever. A society of where brainwashed families spend most of their entire lives watching television and listening to seashell radios. A society of where the government prohibits the existence of books by sending firemen to incinerate them on a daily basis. This dystopian society, is where the knowledgeable are to be feared and hated. For that reason, Montag attempts to figure out why books were banned in the first place and why people would rather spend most of their hours on technology then enjoy life.

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This scene exposes Montag’s true feelings of hopelessness because he can’t do anything to help Mildred, showing a recurring internal conflict. This conflict makes Montag sensitive because he feels that his actions are responsible for the downfall of others, furthering his feeling of hopelessness. In comparison, Montag states, “But let me tell you my plan-” (Bradbury 85) when explaining his plan of hiding books in firemen's houses to Faber. This plan supplies Montag with a strong purpose and a sense of direction because he believes his actions will better society.

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