What Is Gone In Fahrenheit 451

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Imagine watching your house go up in flames and smoke. Your hear the flames eating away on all your belongings. All your stuff is now gone. Your freedom is now gone. Everything you have ever worked for is all gone. It’s is all because you had a little book. In the society Ray Bradbury wrote about in Fahrenheit 451 having books was outlawed. If you had a book and people would find out, “firemen” would come and burn all your belongings and you would go to jail. Mr. Bradbury most likely wrote this to warn us what would happen if we got rid of books. In this society there is no individuality, books are gone, Chaos is everywhere… The world has gone to Hell.
At the beginning of 451 Montag is burning a house. It is Montag’s job to burn people’s houses that have books. Bradbury describes him having fun and loving what he is doing. Montag seems happy. On his way home he meets a girl named Clarisse which he finds out is his new neighbor, he enjoys talking to her. When he gets home one day he finds his wife in bed almost died from overdosing on sleeping tablets. This makes him feel upset that she could have died. He loved her. Two men come and clean her insides out and make her good as new. That night Montag lays and bed and imagines Clarisse and feels happy. One morning she has a dandelion she
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Well you can’t in this society. There is no individuality. Clarisse was always looked at weird because she liked to talk and learn. Montag realizes this and sort of kind of likes her being able to speak her mind. When she is “murdered” Montag realizes that there isn’t that many people like her that speak their mind anymore and express herself. He pulls some books out of hiding and reads but can’t get anything from them. He goes to an old friend who was a professor and tries to get answers. Then the other firemen find out he has books. They make him burn his own house then he turns and kills and wounds them. Then he

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