Burning Man

Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopian society where independent thought is discouraged. The most prevalent example of this is the main topic of the novel, burning books. The firefighters burn books because society is not allowed to read them. If people are not allowed to read books, they do not have documentation of history or other areas of the world and will have less reason to question the way they live. This society is suppressing its citizens of knowledge as a means of maintaining peace…

Imagine a world where books are forbidden, everything is fast paced and firemen don’t put out fires they make them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in October of 1953, there is a main character named Montag. The book is about how Montag learns to like books. The characters in the book try to either teach Montag to like books or steer him away from books. One of the characters, Clarisse teaches Montag that not everything has to be fast paced or you don’t have to follow…

Montag struggles with his view of how society operates with the burning of books and the oppression of free thought. The major stimulus in his life to motivate this change arose from a young girl named Clarisse. His wife Mildred has withdrawn from him, and he tries unsuccessfully to evoke the same emotional responses…

Ray Bradbury definitely wrote a very good story about a possible dystopian future, but he also inclines that our current society could go down that path if we let it happen. Firemen burn books, and that's what we see with our main character, Guy Montag. He works as a fireman, a literal fireman, and burns books. But what is Ray Bradbury really trying to tell us with this book? He is trying to warn us about our society. In the society in the book, the lack of realistic information, or information…

In the editorial, "Is Harry Potter Evil?", the author Judy Blume discusses the danger of allowing people to censor books so freely. Alex Beam, author of "Why Stop with Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn'?", points his fingers towards the people whom he feels are making foolish decisions by banning books. Although both articles discuss the problems and dangers of banning books, they do so in different ways. They use many of the same techniques, but with different approaches. In "Is Harry Potter…

Ray Bradbury used many different symbols in his novel Fahrenheit 451, but he used six specific symbols to really tell the story. The first of these symbols is the Phoenix. In Mediterranean mythologies, the phoenix is a bird that is consumed by fire but then rises from the ashes. The phoenix represents renewal, and the life that follows death. After the city is leveled by bombs, the character Granger directly compares humans and the story of the phoenix. The next symbol is the Salamander. The…

Smoking Smoking kills so why bother starting? This question is stated at the bottom of the advertisement in a big, bolded font. Within this advertisement is a picture of a man holding a gun, which he is reloading with cigarettes. This advertisement conveys the message that smoking kills. This advertisement goes by showing that smoking kills, by comparing it to bullets in a gun. It is stating that using cigarettes can cause as much damage a bullet can. The message of this advertisement is focused…

Censorship Censorship is a practice done worldwide. Throughout history, censorship has mainly been used to restrict the mind from certain topics. In today’s society, censorship is used to protect the minds of youth from the many degrading and inappropriate subjects showcased in books and almost every form of media. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, censorship is deeply rooted in its society and has wholly banned books in order to promote ignorance in the mind of its people, as…

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…

allowed to read. To get rid of these books and ideas, the government uses fire and firefighters. The captain of the firefighters, Beatty, said, “ burn all,burn everything...fire is bright,fire is clean”(Bradbury 60). Most of the people believed, that burning books was good and that it was a way to clean their society. People were pressured by society to not think or question things and to isolate intellectuals. This was a way for the government to keep their society by using censorship.…