Similarities Between Ready Player One And Fahrenheit 451

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Cole Formwalt
Sophomore English
Pre - AP English II
23 July 2017
Calamity - Neglecting Corruption
A Comparison of Ready Player One and Fahrenheit 451 These novels are quite alike, however different they may seem. They carry one theme - a corrupt government that completely ignores the troubles of the world. In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse describes people as “not talking” and “how people hurt each other these days”, meaning that people have idle thoughts and do not care about anyone. In Ready Player One, Parzival states that the “people of Planet Earth had other concerns”, such as an “energy crisis”, “catastrophic climate change”, and “famine, poverty, and disease”. The governments of these nations have done nothing to change the fate of the

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