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Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis
Fahrenheit 451 is a book that talks about ingorance/knowledge and censorship. I will be telling you about what I think about ingorance/knowledge. I will use the pages 9 and pgs 56-57 to point out some examples of ingorance/knowledge. I will also have my own opinion about the topic with my own examples of ingorance/knowledge. In page 9 of Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse is talking to Montag about the dew on the grass and how the billboards used to be smaller and that show how Montag is ingorant abut reading and knowledge, because has been alive for so long and this girl know more things then what he knows because she has been reading and Montag has not.

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