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Script Michael: We got the quote, “’Montag.’ Granger took Montag’s shoulder firmly. ‘Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes’” (page 151). Kailen: I believe that this quote goes back to when Faber was describing to Montag about how books are people. Books are made of three things: quality information, leisure to digest it, and the freedom to act on what the reader learned. The book that Montag has to memorize is a mirror image of who he is inside since books are people and people are books. Michael: When Montag met Granger, Granger let Montag join the organization because he knew the kind of man Montag is. The organization is made up of thousands of people, who live a normal,
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A house was on fire and there was a woman inside it with her books. She refused to let go of them and leave the house. The woman’s actions led to Montag thinking differently about everything and was telling his wife that there may be something important in books. c. The quotation

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Eating a meal with another individual has always shown a sense of communion between the people sharing the meal. Anyone can sense a relationship growing closer during this time, however, if the dinner turns out bad, it can create tension. Towards the conclusion of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, we read about how Montag is sitting around a fire and eating dinner with a bunch of people he just met. Although these men are technically strangers to Montag, he feels comfortable knowing these men share the same ideas as him about keeping the books alive and available to human kind.

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Another character who is unhappy is Clarisse McClellan because she provokes others, as she is missing purpose and passion. One quote that shows this is when Clarisse is talking to Guy, and she suddenly asks, “‘Are you happy?’” (7). This shows that Clarisse wanted to make Guy question his life only because she felt she didn’t have a purpose in hers. When someone feels they do not have a purpose in their life, they might attempt to make others feel the same way.

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So, Montag throughout the book has to face many challenges to complete his goal of fixing the society. A hero’s journey consists of a separation,

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Power can build up societies but also destroy them. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows the readers at the beginning of the book there is a powerful fireman that is a part of a strong society but by the end of the book the power that the fireman once had is gone. In his science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury communicates that when the government has too much control over society it can make people feel trapped and manipulated through the characterization of montag. Many times in this book Montag experiences different forms of power like having no power and having all the power.

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This quote occurs at the end of the chapter, the Sieve and the Sand, and Montag is talking to Beatty in the firehouse. Beatty tries to convince Montag that books are bad, and they are the cause to problems and conflicts. While Beatty is trying to persuade Montag, Faber is talking to Montag through the green bullet trying to convince Montag that Beatty is lying and sneaky. Beatty tells Montag this quote, which can be interpreted to mean that bad people can use words of truth to persuade people to follow them if the context of their statement is believable. When analyzing this interpretation, Beatty is basically implying that Montag in this case is the devil, and he is attempting to use good message such as the Scriptures to his advantage even

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The government has no right to take aways peoples natural rights of life. They would go out of their way to wipe out anything that contains knowledge, but specifically it was books they wanted to keep away. They let a woman commit suicide as they were standing before her due to her unwillingness to give up her books, something she truly believes in. Clarisse McClellan was hit by a car because thats what was acceptable in their society and the government did nothing to stop them but there is no length they wouldn’t go to if it meant keeping books away. They also forced Montag to burn down his house because he had books stashed away and his own wife turned him in.

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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, goes from loving his job to rethinking of his job. Montag came in mind that his job not only hurt him but also hurt society. He began to realize that he no longer enjoyed his job. Montag did not like the fact of knowing that his job was only hurting other people.

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The story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many meaningful quotes and aphorisms. During the story a chacater says, "You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one." (Bradbury 58).

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Granger builds on what Montag has already learned from others, and prepares Montag for the role he will be playing in society. When Montag first meets Granger he believes he is not worthy of helping him and the other book readers. Montag said, “I don’t belong with you” followed by, “I’ve been an idiot all the way,” putting emphasis on how Montag feels, and how he thinks he is not good enough to change society. Granger quickly disagrees, and says, “We’re used to that. We all made the right kind of mistakes”.

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“Read these quotes and fall in love again with the Word of God.” This quote was stated by https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com to give a sense of how the bible can reflect one's emotions of life and God into a happy form. When Montag reads this book he not only understands what is being stated in the book, he also enjoys it. Montag becomes hungry for more words, sentences, paragraphs, and life. Reading the words of God gives Montag the realization of how harsh the world is without these books present.

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Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 shares a lot of Bradbury's personal feelings, predictions, and criticisms of how society was changing during 1953. His feelings were influenced by Germany's book burnings and the Second Red Scare, which took place during the writing of the book and influenced the dystopian elements of the society in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury argues that the rise of communism in the future could lead to a society that values conformity over individuality; this view can be seen today from the effects of political polarization and with the shifting parties in our democracy, as both republicans and democrats are traveling farther to the left and the right of the political spectrum. Communism is evident through Bradbury's dystopian

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Beatty knows Montag owns books, but does not tell him directly (Bradbury 106-7). Beatty says that Montag yells “Knowledge is more than equivalent to force” (Bradbury 106) which was said by Dr. Samuel Johnson in Raelass. This famous

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Knowledge and Ignorance in Fahrenheit 451 Imagine a society where all books are banned from the public and if any are found they are burned into ashes. This is a reality in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which delves deep into problems a society becoming more and more dependant on technology may face. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury shows many problems which range from technology to violence, one important topic that is discussed is knowledge and the theme that a society cannot function without knowledge You can clearly see this idea starting to form within the first few pages of the novel, when the protagonist Guy Montag has an interaction with a girl named Clarisse. As they are talking Guy Montag says “You think too many things”(pg 9).

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“A time to keep silent and a time to speak,” (158) is a quote from the book Fahrenheit 451. This novel is all about how people conform to a society that burns books. They do so because they make people “think” thoughts that the government doesn’t want them to. Though there are some who are not conformed and read books to enlighten themselves to the ways of the past, that changes the way they see the present. Mildred, Faber, and Clarisse are characters that represent different aspects of conformity or nonconformity in the Fahrenheit 451 society.

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