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    Corrupt Technology In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology derives the society from reality. Imagine a society where people care more about their technology than their own families. A Mother who cares more for her television than her own son or daughter. There are kids who kill each other and play violent games due to the propaganda of technology. This society is delusional to the fast rising totalitarian government that 's right at their doorstep. This rising power is feeding the…

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    people, looking at the moon and smelling flowers. In a normal society, these actions are traditional, but because the society in Fahrenheit 451 is revolved around technology, these actions are not typical. Even though, society views Clarisse as weird, Guy Montag sees her as an unique individual. Clarisse McClellan is a 17-year old teen ,who lives next to Montag and rebels against society. Her actions have an impact on Montag himself and many other aspects of the novel. Clarisse plays a major…

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    As society progresses, advancements in technology do not correlate to improvements in humanity. The novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian future in which the government has outlawed books and frowns upon having significant interactions. Guy Montag, a ‘fireman’, begins to unravel the censorship of the government and becomes aware of its affect. Throughout the novel his wife Mildred prioritizes watching her immerse ‘parlor wall’ television, and only after talking to a retired scholar named…

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    Mildred is Montag’s emotionally distracted wife that spends most of her days watching television and interacting with the “family”, electronic characters who interact with people through television throughout the society. Clarisse is a young teenager who is met by Montag and intrigues him to think differently, before she mysteriously disappears suddenly. Clarisse and Mildred…

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    In the novel,Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury a guy by the the name of name of Montag had the job to burn books.In this book a fireman's job is to raid homes and burn books because the government doesn't allow them.Normal day to day things included watching tv and listening to music on wireless headphones called seashells. While burning books he realized that he was burning something important,history.Throughout the story he gained knowledge about the history and grows to love books.Montag hides…

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    Red… Gold… Orange… Blue… Catching a glimpse of the blue skied day, the leaves rained down on me, swirled by the promise of winter approaching. A faint hint of kerosene perpetually tainted the air, assuring citizens what would occur from hoarding books. As I perched on the branch watching the mindless citizens lazily stroll by, I began to imagine a different world. The world that my uncle and his people describe in their retellings of all the burned stories. A world that appears to be forever…

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    laziness. The book is about what will happen in the future sooner than later. The book had three major influences which were nazi book burnings, the cold war and advancement of technology. There are three main characters. The first main character is Guy Montag. He is a thirty year old fireman and is married. His job is burning books. During the book, he changes from burning books to saving books so his purpose is going against the government. He said ”’...there must be something in…

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    After all, your voice comes out of the throat so why not grab it to make someone quiet? What he didn’t know is that it’s very easy to kill someone that way. The creature was also attacked by the DeLacy family because the creature was never taught how to act around other human beings. So, when the creature had grasped the old man’s hand, Felix took it as a threat. That is when Felix had grabbed the stick, and started beating the creature. After being through…

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    Zbigniew Brzeziński once said, “Shortly the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news”. Mildred watched the parlor families everyday, for years, and eventually grew attached. Her opinions are now based on the knowledge given to her through the walls, which ultimately dampens her views on things such as the presidential election. The lives of the citizens in Fahrenheit 451 are unknowingly…

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    he should have nothing to do with this. In the end this bad thing he did, killing Ikemefuma, leads to another bad event for him. While he was at a funeral his gun went off accidently during the gun salute and killed someone. This led to him and his family to be sent to exile for seven years. Achebe in this story shows perfectly how one mistake can lead to another one if you are not careful. This concept is the same way a society can fall apart. In society the people as a whole can make bad…

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