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    Guy Montag is a firefighter who smolders books in a cutting edge American city. In Montag's reality, firefighters begin fires as opposed to putting them out. The general population in this general public don't read books, appreciate nature, invest energy without anyone else's input, think freely, or have important discussions. Rather, they drive quick, watch extreme measures of TV on divider estimate sets, and listen to the radio on "Seashell Radio" sets connected to their ears. All through the…

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    Elie Wiesel Good Vs Evil

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    World hunger, nuclear weapons, and rising sea levels, these are all world problems that serve as evil today. As ISIS and North Korea try to cover the globe in their darkness, national powers attempt to cleanse the world of their evil presence. Good vs Evil is everywhere today, but in some places there seems to be only evil and hardly any good. The world can be a scary place, however there is some good like the geniuses that make daily breakthroughs. These are the people that bring good to…

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    Epilogue To The Crucible

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    The smell of smoke enters the cave and I'm instantly woken up by it. The sound of the kookaburra rings throughout the bush land. My first thought was that Uncle Bardy was starting a fire for a smoking ceremony and I raced outside to join. I'm surprised when I see a burnt out fire and birds scavenging around looking for food. In the distance I see where the smell of smoke is coming from. I walk over to the edge of the hill and peer out over the bay where the smoke is still rising. I'm shocked at…

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    A second story that is equally deserving of recognition is a story from Bell’s book entitled “I’ll Die with the Words on My Lips.” It is an incredible story about a journalist by the name of Lelenne Gilles. Lelenne begins her story by talking about how as she was a child, she would always be deeply disturbed by the fact that so many kids her age could not afford to go to school. She would always speak up about this and ask teachers in her school why things couldn’t be different. When she got…

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    Burning Book Burning

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    My thoughts on burning books is you should not do it, there is no point in it at all the book has not hurt or harmed you in any way shape or form if you think the book is a bad book do Not read the book. The book may have some wording you do not agree with but that does Not give you the right that an author has taken his time and hard work to go out and burn the book. If you think the book is that bad then don't even look at it. “The nazi’s did not burn books”(paragraph 1 of Heinrich Heine…

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    A Revolutionary Pyromaniac In Ray Bradbury's, Fahrenheit 451 he uses a series of powerful symbols in order to give the plot a much deeper meaning. He refines the theme of the story by using symbols such as the hearth, salamander, the sieve, the sand and the Phoenix. Ray Bradbury essentially reveals the cyclical nature of mankind and their capabilities of utopian creation versus dystopian destruction. In Fahrenheit 451, fire symbolizes destruction, knowledge and as well as self-awareness. The…

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    “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s the year 2020, Kanye is president, and books have been wiped out. Not a single book in sight. You hide one, you’ll be found and arrested, and your books will be burned up in flames. Guy Montag, a fireman, curious about books and the past, begins to adventure into an unknown world of books. One girl, it’s all it took to make Montag question everything he’s ever known. Her name…

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    The novel can still be used as a warning to people in america by letting us americans know our mind is too much in the television and our technologies instead of enjoying life”stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. The novel is really about burning book and montag is a fireman so that's what he do for a living and he love his job but in our society firemen don't burn…

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    Nyons (Switzerland). His parents divorced in 1948, at which time he returned to Paris to attend the Lycée Rohmer. In 1949 he studied at the Sorbonne to prepare for a degree in ethnology. However, it was during this time that he began attending with François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Eric Rohmer.…

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    Auteur theory originated from France as Les politique des auteurs by film critics such as François Truffaut. The auteur theory can be described as director’s personality illustrated in the film, which reoccur throughout several other of their movies by the consistency of themes, genre and cinematic style classifying them as an auteur. An example of highly professional director that can be regarded as an auteur is Martin Scorsese, possessing the features of technical expertise, personality…

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