Analysis Of Guy Montag's Fahrenheit 451

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“It is because we’re having so much fun at home that we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed” (p.70) In this part of the story, Guy Montag is describing how they have started and ended two atomic wars and won them, which no one is ever talking about. Montag knows that he is living a “good” life while the rest of the world is struggling for important needs, like food. https://www.voanews.com/twentymillionpeoplefourcountriesfacestarvation In this article, UN Aid Chief: 20 Million People in 4 Countries Face Starvation, Famin, the United Nations is requesting 4.4 billion dollars by july to prevent …show more content…
I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the what we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He’s a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs” (p.77) In this part of the story, Guy Montag shows Faber the last Bible and Faber is savoring how the original piece is better than what the world is now using Christ as a sort of propaganda. Faber doesn’t like that a well known figure is being displayed differently. https://www.wired.com/2017/04/pepsi-ad-internet-response/ In this article, Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner ad was so awful it did the impossible: it united the internet, Kendall Jenner is in a photo shoot and then leaves to join a protest and unites everyone together by handing a cop a pepsi. The controversy stirs up because of the way pepsi tried to advertise themselves during a serious subject/problem and how they solve it. In conclusion, People use a known figure just to promote ideas and items to certain type of people and not many people accept it. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber doesn’t like how Jesus christ is portrayed differently than how he originated as in the Bible and the internet didn’t like how a famous actress was used to commercialize a drink in a wrong manner. Advertisements always appeal to certain people but sometimes the way they present it is …show more content…
No one wanted them back. No one missed them. And the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters.” (p.85) Faber was telling Guy Montag that he contact a man who might be able to print out some books to start a war. Faber remembers that the government trying to filter out all the people fighting and celebrity couples by destroying it. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/china-whatsapp-blocked.html The article. China Blocks WhatsApp, Broadening Online Censorship, China blocked the WhatsApp messaging app to step the surveillance from a big communist party gathering coming soon. China has been censoring many ways to communicate to one another and many other apps. The chinese government herded its internet users to an app called WeChat that can be easily monitored by the government. To conclude, Governments restrict things from the public to either “help” them or to hurt them. China’s government made WhatsApp completely useless as a means to communicate to protect its civilians. The government in Fahrenheit 451 filtered out their news by burning the newspapers and books. The government has a lot of control to burn or block means of ways that people may express themselves to the public’s

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