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    enjoys burning his house. He loves burning every memory of his wife and television in the house. While Montag destroys his house he ends up burning Captain Beatty with the torch and knocking two other fireman in the head with it and killing all three guys with one weapon and still burn his house down. Montag finally figures out that he must go to Faber's house to have him help him get out of town without the police finding out. In this last part of the book, he ended up running away from the…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Essay Montague changed excessively over the entire course of the book. He found different thing’s out . This in turn changed his idea, perception of his entire reality. He changed into a completely different man. In the beginning of the book Montague was a regular firefighter followed his orders never questioned anything because he didn't have anything to question about. He remained this way for most of the beginning of the book until the day he had to go to the one house where…

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    “I’m not dead. It was a lie.” Montag stood in view of the TV crew in the heart of the city. Armed with microphones, boards, and video cameras, a band of men and women halted their work and took one collective glance at Montag. A man suited in a black shirt advanced forward. “It’s really you. They told us-” “What they told you was lies,” Montag explained, “A method to enforce themselves as an authority figure. As humans, you followed them as sheep, no matter if the herder was right or wrong.” A…

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    “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no result”~ Mohandas Gandhi. One of the many themes shown through the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is action vs. inaction. The main character Guy Montag, who is an inactive fireman who burns down the homes of book owners as a punishment for breaking the law, turns into an active man who takes action upon his beliefs. Bradbury, who published the book in 1953, predicts a future filled with…

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    Ray Bradbury wrote a book to question our society; he named it Fahrenheit 451. This book pictures the destruction of our lives, by forgetting all that books teach us. The main character, Guy Montag, begins to see that his life is not as great as it seems. A girl named Clarisse comes into his life and asks questions that make him think. He burns books for a living but is unhappy in that situation. As he grows to understand why we need books, Bradbury uses color as a symbol in Montag’s life. The…

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    In the novel, “Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,” the main protagonist named Guy Montag progresses throughout the story after meeting Clarisse McClellan. At the start of the novel, Guy Montag works as a third-generation fireman who enjoys burning books for a living. One night after work, he meets Clarisse McClellan, an odd 17 year-old girl who enjoys nature and isn’t interested into violence, tv, or vacant socializing. She asks Montag whether he was happy and Montag soon realizes that his life had…

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    Breaking Free Guy Montag a married thirty year old fireman who doesn't save people in the way a real societies fireman might. Montag is a fireman who burns book. He has done his job for ten years and has never thought of doing anything else than burning books until he meets seventeen year old Clarissa McClellan. She not only opens his eyes to new possibilities and secrets of the past, but puts him on a path they will forever shape his future. Guy Montag’s conflict with his job, morals ,and…

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    man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his ability to affect those around him positively.” This perfectly describes Clarisse’s effect on Montag in the novel Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, Clarisse was able to change Montag for the better. Guy Montag changed from being an apathetic book burner into a man with a curiosity of the world. The reason for this change was a girl named Clarisse, who showed him a different perspective of life. Clarisse exposed to Montag that he was unhappy and…

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    Fahrenheit 451 In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury a firefighter got curious about books. The books were illegal in the city, if people found out the firemen would come and burn the books if the3 books were in the house they would burn the house to. The main character Montag went to a old english professor and then they planned on making copies of the books. Then the firechief got a call and they took of to a house but Montag didn't know until he got there. Who was Montag in the…

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    Vivien Research Paper

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    Vivien was bornAugust 29, 1910 in New Iberia Louisiana by Mary Eaton and William Marco Thomas. Vivien attended Pearl High School. Vivien worked as a carpenter and saved the money so he could go to college to become Cardiac Surgeon, but his dreams were demolished by the stock market crash of 1929 (Great Depression.) He asked a Best friend, Charles Manlof, if there was a job at Vanderbilt. Charles told Vivien there was an opening in the experimental surgery room with Dr. Blalock. Although…

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