Name_________________Date________Period__________ Fahrenheit 451 Anticipation Guide Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree. Write one to two sentences explaining your thoughts about each statement. There are not right or wrong answers! 1. Laws are always written for the protection of the citizens. 2. Some books are evil and should be destroyed. 3. In a world filled with constant‚ 24-hour news‚ there are no true facts. (Things keep changing.) 4. If it was
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Fahrenheit 451 is a novel based on the role of burning books in order to eliminate their dissenting ideas. Guy Montag is a fireman who burns houses containing books‚ rather than putting fires out. In his community‚ laws are enforced to prevent folks from thinking. These rules try to hide the reality that the government is controlling people‚ as well as the faults in the world. The novel begins with the quote‚ "If they give you ruled paper‚ write the other way‚" from Juan Ramon Jimenez. I believe
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Choice # 1: In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Beatty claims that "If you don’t want a house built‚ hide the nails and wood" (61).* What Beatty means here‚ is that if people don’t want society to have knowledge‚ then all knowledge-bearing materials must be destroyed‚ which in this instance‚ are books. Books give people knowledge and more complications‚ which he claims can make people less happy. Ignorance is bliss because every character in Fahrenheit 451 who discovers the truth is in immediate trouble
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society? Well‚ in the story of Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ Montag is the protagonist. Montag is a firefighter‚ which is where they burn books instead of putting them out. Captain Beatty is the same as Montag‚ but not that quite… Ray Bradbury shows the differences between Montag and Beatty and shows how it affects Montag over the story‚ it also changes our perspective. Monag has achieved to think‚ with a help of a 17-year-old‚ named Clarisse. Clarisse keeps asking questions to Montag. “You laugh when
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elementary of comparisons‚ and are the easiest for the mind to comprehend in that total opposites are brought to attention. These opposites subconsciously provide one with a deeper insight of the material and consciously entertain. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ many dualisms are included both within Montag and in the outside world that provide 180 degree flip-side views‚ giving the book further depth and inner meaning. Within the many layers of Montag lay several opposite sides. For example
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Fahrenheit 451 In Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ the main character Guy Montag makes a complete metamorphosis. He goes from hating books to liking them. He changes from a stolid character‚ incognizant of the activities in his surroundings‚ to a person conscious of everything‚ enlightened by the new world he is exposed to. There are many events that take place in this change in Montag. Montag’s first awakening was when he meets Clarisse‚ a 17 year old outcast in his society. She asks him if he
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A society hooked on TV‚ and police forces that harass and punish independent thinkers‚ all of this in a book that takes the reader for a spin in a chaotic‚ new world. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ starts off politically correct‚ hating books‚ burning them without a twinge of guilt. The reason he burns books is because he is the new type of firefighter‚ where they burns books instead of putting out fires. Also‚ the law enforces the people of the city to never have
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The challenged book I recently read was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book has been challenged‚ and almost banned‚ for quite a while. I personally disagree with the statement that this book should be banned. This book has a very deep and meaningful background‚ and the good definitely outdoes the bad. The people who chose to ban this book did have a point‚ that foul language and violence is not good for a young student to read‚ but the good in this book should cover up the bad. The foul language
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to sleep at 9 on weekdays and 10 on weekends. Coming into 6th grade‚ I was getting kinda tired of this routine and decided to ask if I could stay up later at night. After a bit of convincing‚ my parents agreed‚ and now I can go to sleep later. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury takes place in a future where books are outlawed‚ and Guy Montag burns books for a living. Montag is tested when someone burns herself with her books in protest of the firemen‚ and he begins to read. But he is soon found out‚
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Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic novel‚ taking the reader to a time where books and thinking are outlawed. In a time so dreadful where those who want to better themselves by thinking‚ and by reading are outlaws as well. Books and ideas are burned‚ books are burned physically‚ where as ideas are burned from the mind. Bradbury uses literary devices‚ such as symbolism‚ but it is the idea he wants to convey that makes this novel so devastating. Bradbury warns us of what may happen if we
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