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    Clarisse's ultimate purpose in Fahrenheit 451 is to serve as the major motive for Montag’s complete shift in his outlook on his society, surroundings, and inner emotions. Clarisse contributes heavily to the themes and development of the story, as her physical appearance/actions on Montag and mental assimilation into his everyday thoughts lead him to question and rebel against his society, which is essentially the drive that the whole plot revolves around. She also serves to gently yet constantly…

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    Guy Montag Monologue

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    INTERVIEWER: Guy Montag is here today to talk about how he became well informed on the world around him. How are you doing today Montag? GUY MONTAG: I am doing well, thank you for asking. INTERVIEWER: Yes, alright let’s get started. Give me a brief description of what your life was like before the chaos. How did you feel about work? GUY MONTAG: I did enjoy work at one point. I had been a fireman for “ten years” (Bradbury 8) and had come accustomed to the hard work and the prestigious lifestyle.…

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    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 most about his job was the part…

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    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 century. He has been a fireman for ten years putting out fire but His job is now became the burn the house with the books instead of saving people. He also a protagonist in this story. Montag is an unhappy complacent man in this story…

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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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    Guy Montag surroundings in the novel Fahrenheit 451 affect the character in ways which he questions, rebels and seeks a better way of life in this dystopian civilization he lives in; therefore illuminates the theme of knowledge versus ignorance. Which influences his life as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency as Pauline Hopkins says. Society’s ways are different, firemen do not put out fires but they cause them by burning books and then fill new books up with false information.…

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    The Giver and the Truman show show are a lot alike but in the end both were never the same read my essay to find out. The Truman show and The Giver are a lot alike because in both stories the setting and plot are both the same. The main character Jonas and Truman are in communities very far away and isolated. The setting in The Giver and the Truman Show. In The Giver’s community is very small it is clean far away Isolated and very controlled. The Truman show’s community is very far…

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    plethora of negative opinions of Family Guy, whereas others are huge fans. In Antonia Peacocke’s controversial essay, “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious,” she portrays the belief that Family Guy is actually more logical and less ignorant, than people believe. I would have to agree with Peacocke because some people fear the things they do not understand, hence their dislike of Family Guy. Although I wasn’t always a fan of Family Guy, like Peacocke and many others,…

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    first event occurs at the very beginning of the book when Guy meets Clarisse for the first time. The brief meeting with Clarisse had planted some seeds of defiance in Guy’s head, “He was not happy. He said the words to himself…. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with it.”(Bradbury 9). For the 10 years, the fireman told himself he was happy and he believed it, it took one teenage girl 5 minutes to cause Guy to rethink his whole life. Clarisse is the main…

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