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    milDREAD and CLEARisse Submission ID: 585812905 In “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury, the characters Mildred and Clarisse serve as foils to one another. Clarisse represents the “feared” and the different part of society, while Mildred is the normal acting citizen in the society. When put side by side, there are practically no similarities between the two; in fact, Mildred and Clarisse are almost complete opposites of eachother. One of the main differences between the two is their personalities…

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    Technology has shaped today’s world and form many distractions. People, so focused in the own lives that they hardly get the chance to see how much better life could be. Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451, there are many examples of people allowing themselves to believe in a false happiness. In a society where reading and curiosity has long been replaced with robotic entertainment, the some characters begin to question everything while others slowly drown. Bradbury reveals the theme where the…

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    Man Ray’s subconscious into the very process of creating Cadeau. In other words, Satie played an essential part in the creation of the piece merely by bonding with Man Ray through the unconventional method of shopping. When Schrock does bring up Satie, she mentions him as a surrogate father figure for Man Ray.2 In her words: “Man Ray conceptually ‘offered’ the emotionally charged and fetishized object to Satie, for whom-as man/father-he would symbolically battle the powerful, threatening,…

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    “Nobody listens to me. I can’t talk to the walls because they are yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to walls” (82). In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, protagonist Montag realizes after meeting an individual who expresses openly her thoughts and feeling, that the world around him seems shallow and mindless. Montag begins a journey of self discovery, cherishes individuality, and decides to discover his own individual ideas. Consequently, Bradbury’s novel addresses that…

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    Imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be, “We must all be alike.” “Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.” Pg.55 In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there were certain characters that were content throughout the entire novel, or for the parts they were in. Clarisse McClellan is a exciting girl whom loves to read and socialize with others in the novel. This is a quote said…

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    In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, it tells about a character life by the name of Montag. Montag is the protagonist and changes throughout the story. Guy Montag is a fireman. Instead of these firemen fighting fires, they create the fire. They create the fire by burning books. Books are not allowed and if you have a book in your household and the firemen find it, the book will be burned. Guy Montag in the beginning of the novel was into his job and really loved it. The thing he loved…

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    Fahrenheit 451 In the story “Fahrenheit 451”, the character in this story name Montag has changed. There were different things that Montag did that he changed himself in the story. He was told to burn books without knowing why and how could book be bad. As the story continued, many more things change for Montag that he completely changed a lot more. Here is how Montag changed in the story “fahrenheit 451”. In the beginning of the story, Montag is a thirty year old guy from the 24th…

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    Fahrenheit 451 In the story “Fahrenheit 451,” by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Montag is a fireman. Montag is a thirty year old man who lives in the futuristic world. Also, he is a fireman who burns books. He explains in the beginning how he dislikes books and he adores burning them. But toward the end of the story Montag has a change in perspective about how he feels about the world. He starts liking books but in the world he lives in books are frowned upon. Basically, the story is about…

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    Imagine a place where you are forced to conform to a new system that denies you the privilege of reading and enjoying books. In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 books are burned by firemen and it is considered against the law to read any book. many people do not get to understand the messages that books can give us because of the dystopian world they live in. Bradbury reveals the theme that individuality exists within all but will struggle to show if it has been forced to conform. Fahrenheit…

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    In the story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, society was much different than the society we live in today.In Raybradburys’s predictionof the future nobody in all of America read books, being smart and thinking was frowned upon. The firefighters didn’t fight fires,unlike firefighters today they started the fires. The things firefighters turned to ashes was books. Books are illegal to own in bradbury’s book. If someone finds out you have books, firefighters come to your house burn your books and…

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