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    convince Montag that their job as firemen is important in keeping the society happy and it is those who want to learn and question the way things are, or were in the past, causes a ripple in society. Captain Beatty also explains to Montag that when a fireman takes a book out of curiosity, then they can keep it for twenty-four hours, and then either that person on the other firemen will burn it (Bradbury and Gaiman 59). Beatty is confident that Montag has taken a book and is letting him know that…

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    Montag has been a fireman for 20 years ______________(F) 30. Montag and Mildred have children ____________________(F) 31. Montag is 30 years old _____________________________(T) 32. The official slogan for the firemen is "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Falkner…

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    As the book reaches the fourth chapter, the family now returns home after three and a half years, return to their lives, except life is not the same for the boy and the girl who share the role of the speaker. The two speakers set a different tone to their acknowledgment of racism, for they have an ashamed tone as they react to other’s views of them. After the war, many people look at them differently, after an overarching amount of mean looks and rude comments, it started to affect them. Many…

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    they have are tractor racing for kids, the mile run, and the 5k. They also have activity stations. Every station has different activities for kids to do. Another fundraiser they have is the fireman host a breakfast for everyone and on the last day of Pickle Days. They have a ton of fireworks let off by the fireman. Beuter also puts together parades in Walker and makes sure they are able to be in other town…

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    Quarantine Movie Analysis

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    Quarantine I chose a 2008 movie “Quarantine” for this extra credit assignment. In this movie, a television reporter and her cameraman are shadowing two fire fighters during their night shift and while they are touring the facility, an emergency call leads them to an apartment from where the 911 call was made by the apartment manager. Upon arriving of the 2 firemen, 2 police officers and the television crew the apartment manager explains that a woman has been screaming upstairs in one of the…

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    sounds. Then Montag’s friend responds with, "Faber raised his brows and looked at Montag as if he were seeing a new man. ‘I was joking’"(Bradbury 86). Montag came out shocked because he actually thought that this was a valid solution to the book and fireman problem. Eventually, Montag and Faber developed a plan that suited them both Reflection is a good source of ideas. When reflecting after taking a test or writing an essay, you might come up with new ways to succeed. When writing an essay…

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    Summary Of Fahrenheit 451

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    captured my attention from beginning to end with his ability to tell a story. Any writer that wishes to tell a complete story could easily follow the plan that is laid out in this book. In the beginning of the book, the main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman that seems to be content with his life of setting fires to people’s and the everyday grind of work and marriage. He loves his job and his wife and thinks that his job does a service to everyone that it involves in the community. It’s the…

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    precisely what I will be doing in this essay. Bradbury’s book is packed with symbols and themes throughout the plot, some more subliminal than others. The titles are significant to the story, helping to convey the plot as Montag goes from an ignorant fireman to a rebellious outcast. Each of the titles communicates its own message and symbols relating to Montag’s life. The Hearth and the Salamander symbolizes Montag’s relationship with fire, the Sieve and the Sand symbolizes knowledge and the…

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    Douglass once said- “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” In Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 knowledge is taken away from society through censorship. Throughout the book the main character is Montag, who collects books and knowledge soon he is forced to leave and he meets a group of intellectuals whose leader is Granger who was forced to leave for having books. We are still trying to prove the propriety of Grangers actions. Although Granger was risking his life he saw fit to help Montag, who is…

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    that this was against the desire of the government. As young as Clarisse was, overtime her conversations with Montag made him stop to reflect on his own life. When they first met, the pivotal question Clarisse asked Montag after finding out he was a fireman was if he was happy. He tells her that he is, however shortly after their conversation he realizes that he is not. The speaker reveals that Montag, “wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and…

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