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    to tell each other constantly just to make sure we aren’t drifting away apart from each other. But that wasn’t the case in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, relationships aren’t really cared for and neither are kids. They’re apparently disgusting and the only reason they should have kids is to have the human race going. In Fahrenheit 451 it states, “No one in his right mind, the Good Lord know, would have children! … The world must reproduce, you know, the race must go on.”(Bradbury

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    publishing of the novel Fahrenheit 451 by the acclaimed author, Ray Bradbury. Even though it was written more than half a century ago, it is still relevant today and thus still being read in school. While the book takes place in a future that many feel is unimaginable and ridiculous, many aspects are similar to our current society. Knowing this, it is possible to say that if we continue on our current path, the society’s perception of entertainment and media envisioned in Fahrenheit 451 are entirely plausible

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    Shyron Rodgers In Fahrenheit 451 certain people were very different from regular people that you would usually talk to. Montag, was one of the smartest people in the book, He would always talk like he could see the future. People thought he was crazy. He was also a firefighter. In there world there meaning of firefighters are totally different. Instead of putting out fires they start fires. If anyone was to start a fire now they would have got put in jail. That was a job for them to do. They would

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    In Fahrenheit 451, on page fifty-nine it points out, “You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred.” This book was basically like a warning for the upcoming societies and it gave the reader a whole new perspective about how life would be without books and having technology would be way different. In the book, there is several characters that stand out more such as; Montag (also known as Guy), Clarisse, and Beatty. In Fahrenheit 451 firemen

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    “Fahrenheit 451 - The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns”. In 1953, author Ray Bradbury published a novel about a dystopian society that was life changing to many American people. Fahrenheit 451 has opened eyes and influenced generations of readers. Bradbury tells a story of a society where firemen ironically start fires instead of putting them out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn books as well as the homes where the books are founded. Throughout

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    usually doesn’t have the profound effect on them that the teacher was expecting to. However, there is that one diamond in the rough that some students find, a book that makes them see the world differently. That is what happened to me when I read Fahrenheit 451. I always hated reading books in school. For one thing, the material usually wasn’t interesting, and on top of that, if there was anything exciting to learn, we would be hand fed the material instead of being allowed to figure out the purpose

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    Themes In Fahrenheit 451

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    become the present and the future would have no meaning. Fahrenheit 451 displays a deep and thought provoking message to those that read it by showing us what it would be like to live in a society where we are forced to believe one thing, and are never able to form our own opinions. Proving that happiness doesn’t come from peace among the people, but rather the ability to to be able to live our life the way that makes you happy. Fahrenheit 451 contains many valuable themes and lessons that apply

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    Individuality and sameness are a big part of everyday society. Ray Bradbury speaks of both in the story Fahrenheit 451 where almost everyone is the same except for a few people. Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a sci-fi fantasy that shows the individuality and sameness in humanity using literary devices. In the story very few people are individual or do their own thing. There is a teenage girl who is different from others in her society. Bradbury states, “You are an odd one” (Bradbury 6). She is a very

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    Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, depicts numerous ways the government controls the citizens and their beliefs. The protective state that firemen are portrayed as in modern society is transformed within this futuristic economy. This predominant bureaucracy downgrades books and the value of having them in society. Government authorities depict books as harmful and dangerous to humankind, yet there are still very few people who realize how useful their insight can be to a society. The importance

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    Fahrenheit 451 Morality

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    The book Fahrenheit 451, written and published in the 1950s still reflects to our current society. Ray Bradbury did an amazing job predicting how the world would be in the future. Considering the fact that people in our society exceed the speed limit, replace books with technology and performs violent acts; our society today is already becoming like the society in the book. In Fahrenheit 451, the conversation between Clarisse and Montag when they first met, describes that they are living in a fast-paced

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