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Themes In Fahrenheit 451

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After Mildred turns him in, Montag and Beatty go to Montag's house. Beatty, knowing that Montag has been infected with curiosity about books, demands that he burn the house himself: "I want you to do this job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flamethrower. Your house, your clean-up." (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Google Books) This is meant to force Montag to reject books and his own interest, to return to his work by ridding himself of the very thing that he is supposed to stand against. By using a flamethrower, Montag will be confronted with everything he had, and everything he threw away by keeping books; the personal connection will be more powerful than simply dousing the house in
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Montag is a fireman who is thirty years old. He has been a fireman for ten years; he takes pride in his work with the fire department. Montag’s job is to search for books and burns them because there’re illegal. Also, enjoys burning books. Montag is an unhappy, cold hearted and emptiness person; in the story Montag is described "black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.

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Unlike a real fireman, Montag has a hose which pours out kerosene to start fires rather than a hose that pours out water that puts fire out. Montag is a fireman who destroys things with the fire he creates. The actions in the quote above are describing the actions of a conductor. The conductor uses his hands to orchestrate a symphony of burning. The letter “b” is used so you can hear the sound of the drums being played by the orchestra.

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Rachael Hinkley Ms. Weston Honors English 9 20 July 2014 Fahrenheit 451 Part one- The hearth and the salamander Level 1 question- Why does the school view Clarisse as being anti-social while Clarisse views herself as being very social?(29) Answer-Clarisse’s school views being social as gathering students in a room for classes such as tv class or to just paint a picture. Unlike in a normal classroom material is not taught and questions are not asked by the students.

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Evaluate the Thematic Uses of Fire Imagery in Fahrenheit 451 and Julius Caesar William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 in the newly constructed ‘Globe Theatre’, in London. The plot is based on the Sir Thomas North’s ‘The lives of noble Grecians and Romanes’ this being in itself a translation of Greek bibliographer Plutarch’s ‘Parallel Lives’. The play follows the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC and the subsequent civic uprising and chaos. The main theme in Julius Caesar is the vicious battle for power; the play also explores ideas of responsibility, moral duty, loyalty, friendship and trust. Ray Bradbury’s

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The novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian society that strictly forbids reading or have a printed book in your possession. The protagonist named Guy Montag, is a firefighter who burns any illegal books that are found. Montag in the beginning of the novel is an average citizen who hates books and does not understand the true value of them. He is known as a salamander, Montag can walk among the books he is burning, but he won’t get affected by them. But as the story continues, he begins his transformation.

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Bradbury portrays how Montag’s perception of fire and burning books with his personal development changes by the different choices he makes throughout the novel. In the beginning of the book, Montag has a great passion and

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By examining that Montag now regrets the bad decisions he made in the past, tries to make people realize there is a big problem the world has to face, and since other people are willing to help him correct the world even if they’re put in danger, it is clear that Montag is a hero. Montag has realized that his past is filled with bad decisions and he finally chooses to fix his mistakes. An example of his regretful decision is when he burned down his house and Montag turned to face Beatty. As he was arguing with Beatty, Montag’s fingers touched, “the safety catch on the flame thrower. Beatty glanced instantly at Montag's fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit …

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Then Montag went and did the worst thing possible, he read a poem to Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles. After he read the poem, he fled the house and went to turn in a book to Beatty. What he didn’t know is that the ladies have turn in an alarm and Mildred did too. The firemen, Montag, and Beatty made their way to Montag’s house. Beatty reveals that he knew all along that Montag was lying and made Montag burn down his own house.

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How would life be if books were illegal to the people? Unlike firefighters today, the firemen in Fahrenheit 451 used fire to burn books and the homes that held them. They didn’t put out fires, they started them. If someone were to get caught with books, like Montag did, they could be arrested or even killed. Some avoided this dim consequence by running away and hiding.

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(AGG) In the course of Fahrenheit 451, we can clearly see that the society Montag is living in very faulty. (BS-1) Montag believes that his own society is working fine. However this is because he is unaware of critical things in a human society.(BS-2)

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“We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I” (Dickens 247) Much like Dickens, Ray Bradbury emphases the importance of choices and how difficult it is to make one. Throughout “The Sieve and the Sand” [the second part of Fahrenheit 451] Montag is faced with life breaking decisions. Montag is under the pressures of society and the government which immobilizes him from making a decision.

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(Bradbury 12). Consequently, he takes a flamethrower and starts burning Beatty all of his co-workers stare at him in a daze not wanting to believe what’s unfolding before their eyes. Montag is trying to make a point of taking out the head firefighter. He wants people to know that thinking outside the box isn't an atrocious act and it never was. As you can see, many people helped to change Montag's beliefs and actions.

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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a uniquely shocking and provocative novel about a dystopian society set in a future where reading is outlawed, thinking is considered a sin, technology is at its prime, and human interaction is scarce. Through his main protagonist, Guy Montag, Bradbury brings attention to the dangers of a controlled society, and the problems that can arise from censorship. As a fireman, it is Guy's job to destroy books, and start fires rather than put them out. After meeting a series of unusual characters, a spark is ignited in Montag and he develops a desire for knowledge and a want to protect the books. Bradbury's novel teaches its readers how too much censorship and control can lead to further damage and the repetition of history’s mistakes through the use of symbolism, imagery, and motif.

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“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is known as a fictional book that shows how technology takes over. Montag is a fireman who lives in a world controlled by the government and technology. Montag soon realizes how things are not all that they seem. Montag will go through a journey of realization as specific people come into his life to show that technology isn't all that it seems to be.

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When Montag is sent out with his brigade to burn down a book owner’s house, Montag sees that the owner stayed in the house and burned down with it. “There must be something in books… to make a woman stay in a burning house ” (51). Montag realizes that there must be something - something important, something worthwhile - to cause a person to commit suicide and die with that knowledge. At the start of the story, Montag sees fire as just a way to clean up, a way to keep things in line, a way to turn white pages into black ash. But fire develops a different meaning than that.

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