Starting Sentence For Fahrenheit 451

Intro
• Answer each question vaguely to be the starting sentence for each paragraph
• Bradbury stated that Fahrenheit 451 was about the Tv replacing books.
• *many types of technologies have replaced books.
• *Bradbury was right to fear technology would replace books
• *Books are very different than television and the movies.

Paragraph 1
• Bradbury stated that Fahrenheit 451 was about the Tv replacing books, not censorship. He even mentioned this in character form with Beatty speak to Montag.
• “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation. . .” (Bradbury 58)
• *many types of technologies have replaced books in Bradbury’s future.
• Cars how fast they go

• Seashells - earbuds
• Thimble radios - bluetooth
• Large televisions - flat screen televisions
• Fourth wall - wall sized tvs
• Mechanical dog--robot
• The Hound is a mechanical robot that is more powerful than a human, which created a fear to the people in the society.
• Nuclear War - end of book/ new invention at the time still very scary
• The greatest technological advances developed since World War II was the development of atomic energy and the atomic bomb.
• Fear of this technology spread across the country. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury creates the of fear that ruled when he was writing the book.

Paragraph 2

• Bradbury was right to fear the modern technology would replace books.
• Since the 1950’s Americans to have a television at home, which has competed with reading books.
• Beatty stated to Montag that people did not like the books they read and were offended by the books. Firefighters no longer saved the burning houses, but burnt the ones with books (Bradbury 59).
• “We can’t have our minorities upset and stirred” (bradbury 59).
• If the information upsets people, then people are not happy, so they thought they should burn the