Reflection #1 Cipriano Echavarria Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pg. 72 “You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built‚ hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically‚ don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet‚ give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war”. (72) Censorship has stroked the world for many decades; fearful governments have been hiding information or modifying it to its citizens
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Molded Into a Free Thinker It all took place within an unknowingly ruined society. Each citizen glued to their television and never paying more than five seconds worth of attention to what one another had to say. Vehicles roar up and down streets driven by people searching for that adrenaline they desire‚ and friends only talk to each other not because they want to‚ but because they feel they have to. Guy Montag‚ the protagonist firefighter who doesn’t see beyond his book-blazing job‚ is an extraordinary
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and Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ have completely different storylines but many similarities and differences. Anthem is about a city where the people do not know of the personal pronouns “I” or “my;” They know “we” or “our.” “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE‚ One indivisible and forever‚” (p.19). The government in Anthem is set up of a World Council‚ and a City Council. The laws are very restrictive and do not give any “lee-way.” Fahrenheit 451 is about a city
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Audra all but stalked Rory day and night to make sure he was not growing ill. For days‚ she sneaked around the castle‚ spying on him‚ and even slipped into his bedchamber at night to watch him breathe. One time‚ she crept in late at night and‚ much to her mortification‚ caught Rory touching himself. He pulled down his sleeping tunic and shot out of bed. Even by the light of the one candle‚ she saw his face burned bright red. “Mother! This is ridiculous! I am fourteen years old! I am not sick and
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Composition Ms.Giovanelli January 22‚ 2013 Fahrenheit 451 Books and movies are booth great kind of entertainment. Many great books have been turned into great movies by adapting every bit of detail from the book to the movie‚ but as well as good books are being turned into good movies there are also good books being turned into disappointing movies by changing the great meaningful story the original author had written into a shallow script. Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury in 1953‚ which
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Entertainment like technology can certainly be addictive. It can serve the same purposes as drugs and alcohol. “It’s really fun‚ It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed.” (p.18) Mildred is so addicted to technology and entertainment that even though they already have three wall televisions she wants a fourth one. There are similarities in the consequences of drugs and alcohol and entertainment such as technology like watching countless hours of television daily
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(AGG) Nothing good comes from technology in the book Fahrenheit 451. (BS-1) Montag’s society has an addiction to technology. (BS-2) Citizens are suffering the consequences of being addicted to it. (BS-3) People who don’t use technology all the time are better off than people who are constantly on it. (TS) The constant use of technology has a negative effect on Montag’s society. (MIP-1) Montag’s society is addicted to technology and it’s all that they care about. (SIP-A) People in this society alway
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Delrika Carey 9/24/11 Period.3 English Adv.11 Ray Bradbury’s Innovations The futuristic world that Ray Bradbury‚ author of Ferinheight 451‚ so vividly describes is frightenly close to our own. Therefore it give a broad outlook on futuristic society‚ and remarkably parallels the world in which we live in today. The problems at the present night not be as extreme as Bradburys however‚ if left unchecked they could grow to be just as monstrous as he predicted. Positive and negative impacts
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(MIP) This meme focuses on happiness in the society. (SIP-A) The main goal in this meme is to persuade families in the society to get off their TV and make them think about if they are happy. (STEWE-1) Clarisse asks‚ “are you happy?... All of the nonsense”(8-9). Montag thinks he is happy early on in the book but later understands he is not. He is forced to think from characters like Clarisse and Faber who are different just like Montag. (STEWE-2) Montag knows he isn’t happy and knows that Mildred
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The US Constitution is one of the most important documents ever written in United States history. It is the law of the land and it covers the legal system as well. Article 3 explains the judiciary branch. The constitution states that the judicial branch is ran by the supreme court. Then it explains how trials are held‚ stating how they will be held at where the crime was committed. Then it explains the act of treason in section 3. It states that congress has to right to decide a punishment for the
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