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listening to “how.” As seen by his already extensive collection of stashed books before meeting Clarisse, Montag had always been drawn to the mysterious power books seemed to possess. This inquisitive drive most likely came about during his time as a fireman seeing people getting thrown into prison or even killed over an object that he had been taught his whole life was just a waste of time that poisoned people and caused unhappiness. It was only Montag’s interaction with characters like…

kids, and destroyed many things, putting the kids in danger. To start off, one reason the snow represents danger is because it killed a teacher. Mr. Gossel, a teacher, goes out into the snow. “‘It could be something,’ said Gossel. ‘Even a volunteer fireman might have a two way radio, something we could use.’... ‘I’m going out there,’ he said,”(Northrop 49). Once the teacher left the school, he never showed up in the book again. This hints that the teacher…

of what is going on around them. Other than censorship being involved, another theme in both stories is the dangers of technology which is becoming a bigger issue throughout time. Fahrenheit 451 is a story in which Montag (the protagonist) is a fireman whose job is to burn books because they are labeled as “illegal”. Montag on page 5 states, “‘Do you ever read any books you burn?' He laughed. 'That's against the law!”, people are not allowed to read books because they are illegal. Although the…

The events in Fahrenheit 451 take place in a futuristic society where a fireman named Guy Montag, questions what he has been told his entire life. In the novel, Montag’s job is to start fires and burn books that are discovered in people’s homes. Books are banned, since they contain vast amounts of knowledge, so the people are not allowed to think for themselves. This makes Montag curious to why people have these books, so he started a collection of his own which is illegal. His wife, Mildred…

is against the law and burn it! The book Fahrenheit 451 is a book that is based on the future of society. Society burns books, firemen start fires instead of putting fires out, and people think it is enjoyable to kill random people. After being a fireman for ten years, Montag has had enough and wants to read what is inside the books, instead of burning them. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, censorship causes a loss of societal growth, individual thought and personal happiness. Throughout the…

Today some people younger and older either don 't remember much about the 911 terrorist attacks or simply were too young to witness the catastrophe that happened. The book I read was American Ground: Unbuilding The World Trade Center by William Langewiesche. The author William Langewiesche is a well-known award winning journalist who covered the World Trade Center clean-up as well as the Iraq War and modern ocean piracy but before the writing career started he was a professional pilot…

written by Ray Bradbury. Set in a future society, this “utopia” prides itself on the concept of happiness. To maintain this happiness, the Fire Department, an organization that starts fires instead of fighting them, burns books. But when Guy Montag, a fireman,…

Hayden Long Dr. Walton ENGL 20 10am 01 March 2018 Fahrenheit 451 Considered a literary marvel, Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic take on the USA, where all physical literature is considered dangerous and burned if found. The story has received critical acclaim as well as the National Book Award in 2000; thus making it a prominent piece of literature for many academic institutions to analyze and decipher. The book’s title refers to the temperature in which paper burns, one of many references to…

Coeur d’Alene was created by Richard Butler, in 1974, as a white only community. Hate crimes were committed until the 2000’s when Norm Gissel filed a law suit that bankrupted the compound. Because Coeur d’Alene’s past, they are believed to still be bias to white Americans against other ethnicities. While this is what the town was founded upon, they have slowly began to be more acceptable to other races. The media, or video, shows that the town is based upon preserving the white American culture,…

I have been working with computer since I was in elementary school. I was so fascinated how computer work. As the years passed by, I want s have a computer job that pays every well. When kids wanted to be fireman or a police office, I wanted to be a Pc repairman. I am striving to be the one of the best in the in the IT field. And I really got deeper into computers when I went to high school. With my computer teacher, Mr. Daniele’s pushing me to strive to do better. He told me that if I really…