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    talking‚ cutting off any social interactions hiding behind a screen. People stop talking to their families‚ when they do talk they feel very uncomfortable and out of place. Ray Bradbury shows examples of technology getting in the way in his book Fahrenheit 451. Ray shows the readers how the power of technology does affect people in many ways in his book how it suppresses and replaces true human interaction.     In the book there is a man named Guy Montag he is a fireman ‚but his job

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    Area 51 is known by a lot of people yet there is very little information about it. Just like one of the main elements in Fahrenheit 451‚ Area 51 is a common example of censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a very interesting and appealing story because it contains several different themes that tie around to censorship. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is a great example of censorship because the society is very clueless to what is happening due to the censorship taking place. They contain all this futuristic

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    In both Fahrenheit 451 and the movie 2081 the authors desire a world in which everyone is equal. In the movie 2081 Vonnegut tries to issue equality among the people in society by making the strong wear weights‚ the beautiful wear masks and by making the intelligent wear head pieces. In the book Fahrenheit 451 the people have eliminated books so that no one is smarter than someone else. The society has eliminated teaching children in school how to question things‚ and instead just focuses on memorizing

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    Leaders lead by example‚ but sometimes not everyone follows them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ there are a lot of situations going on. There’s one specifically that got my attention that not many people got too hung up on. This was when Beatty set up Clarisse to see if his suspicion about Montag was true. Beatty was justified for setting up Clarisse because Beatty was known for setting up people‚ and getting information out of people and things he found suspicious

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    Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 Responses 1. The significance of Montag seeing his reflection in Clarisse’s eyes is that it shows that Clarisse is different. She is special. In this dystopia that Ray Bradbury has made‚ Clarisse is the one unique part of the society‚ the “flaw.” 2. In the childhood memory that Clarisse caused Montag to recall‚ Montag was a child and the power went out in his house. Montag’s mother had lit a candle. He found an “hour of rediscovery‚ of such illumination that space lost

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    Although Bradbury’s novel is about a time in the not-too distant future‚ Fahrenheit 451 closely reflects the composers concerns within the 1950’s. Bradbury replicates a number of recent historical events within the era‚ in which he based Fahrenheit 451 when he wrote and published the book. Central ideas of this period are imitated through the social control‚ conformity and government censorship illustrated within the text. While Bradbury writes about the sound of jet fighters crossing the sky in

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    F451 Dialectic Journal |Chapter |Passage |Significance | |1 |“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things |There is absolute pleasure when eating something. When something changes‚ it could| | |blackened and changed.” Narrator page 3 |end up good or bad. However‚ when something is blackened‚

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    Daniela Zuniga Ms.shemitz November 25‚ 2013 Period 6 Book Report #1 Character: Guy Montag Guy Montag is the main character who works as a firefighter doing the ironic. Instead of doing duty of putting out fire‚ he starts them‚ but he can’t be blamed for his duty. He was raised to believe and follow society and not question. Guy is a very determined‚ confused‚ rebellious‚ and is an eager for knowledge character. His determination is shown when he refuses to give up the books he

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    Humans have been revolving around devices for the past decade‚ and there are many advancements that are hurting people’s lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451‚ the author‚ Ray Bradbury‚ warns people about the bad things technology can cause. He uses many different aspects to show the terrible effects. Similarly‚ today people are losing many of their necessary characteristics because of automation. Ray Bradbury incorporates the warning of futuristic technology by using the ideas of privacy breach‚ antisocial

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    After only nine days at a dime-an-hour typewriter‚ Ray Bradbury wrote his award-winning novel Fahrenheit 451 and successfully saw it published in 1953 (Kipen). Bradbury lived through World War II and heard of the Nazi’s burning of all books written by Jews. This destruction of knowledge began to scare Bradbury and reminded him of the destruction of the library of Alexandria. These stories‚ histories‚ thoughts‚ and values were all gone. The persecuted people were being told what they could and

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