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    The f451 is based on future base censored people. This story is about Montag he is a fire fighter. We will talk about who he was in the beginning. Then we will talk about how he was in the end and how he changed. Then we will talk about his actions and beliefs. Montag is a fire fighter, he does not put them out he starts them. Books are banned and burned upon discovery books are illegal. He meets a seventeen yeah old girl Clarisse witch is his neighbor. He finds his wife over dosed one day when…

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    Water. Fire. Both so alike, yet so different. Two different society's both lie to protect the people who live in it. Truman Burbank is an ordinary guy that has a dream of moving to Fiji, but will he ever be able to go? Guy Montag is a firefighter, but do firefighters actually fulfill their intended purpose? Even though Montag and Truman are from different society's they have many things in common, they were both lied to by their friends and family, they both had a person who made them question…

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    Mildred which is Montag's wife in Fahrenheit 451 has obsession with her seashells which are like earbuds. “Late in the night he looked over at Mildred. She was awake. There was a tiny dancer and melody in the air, her seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fantoms of blackness above her in the ceiling”(Bradbury 39). Most people in Ray Bradbury’s novel-Fahrenheit 451 have an obsession with technology. The overuse…

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    Thesis: Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, is aligned with the “bad guys.” He’s a firefighter who burns books simply because that is what is expected him, not necessarily because he thinks that books are dangerous. Guy undergoes a major transformation because attempts to revive lost pieces of society. In Fahrenheit 451, an example of control is when Mildred wants to put a fourth wall in but they don’t have the money. Guy’s yearly pay is only $16,000 and the fourth wall would cost one fourth of his…

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    able to change a situation-we are challenged to change ourselves”, As said by Viktor E Frankl. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the main character Montag changed a lot due to the other characters around him. For example, at the beginning of the book Guy Montag didn’t care at all about books, but at the end Montag believed books were the key to saving everyone from a dystopian reality. Like when Clarisse asked if firemen used to put out fires rather than start them, Montag started getting curious…

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    “Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it” (Ismat Ahmed Shaikh). In Fahrenheit 451 books are not allowed therefore Montag and his society do not have as much wisdom or knowledge within Montag’s Society. In a place where information within books is not accepted, Montag finds wisdom and knowledge as something that is lacking in his society. Montag is born into a society where knowledge within books is not allowed, but then something changes. “I'm seventeen…

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    Fahrenheit 451 presents the reader with a world unlike any other. Throughout the book the author Ray Bradbury has the characters emotions flowing through the pages, in a way that makes the reader able to feel the confusion and sorrow they are feeling. In a world that is about to be at war, the level of hope throughout the novel is fairly low, but as Montag broadens his horizons and learns more about the history of books, the words begin to fill with hope. The ending of Fahrenheit 451 has two…

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    In Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, both characters, Montag and Harrison contravene the antagonist. Both characters interactions end up turning into a negative situation. In the novel, Montag and the other firemen received a call to go burn a house down, as they are in the process of burning, Montag steals a book and places it in his suit and takes it home. That was the first step towards his rebellion. In the book, on pages 110-113, the author tells us that Montag rebels against Fire…

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    Peter Griffin: The Not So Typical Family Guy Pedophilia, mental disabilities, and terrorism are not usually the first thoughts that come to mind when a person contemplate comedy. Despite this fact, they are all subjects I have witnessed the well-known television show Family Guy poke fun at. This show represents a father, Peter Griffin, and his family and all of the ridiculous circumstances they put themselves in. While the majority of people do not find these subjects funny, they still find the…

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    It was a torture to burn. A long time back, Montag had enjoyed the feel of a cold, heavy brass nozzle in his hands, spewing kerosene on the leather bound books, followed by a blazing fire that turned their yellowed pages into black smoke. Dickens, Shakespeare or Doyle. He burned the books, then burned their ashes with a proud glint on his face, a smile plastered for forever. Montag was addicted to the adrenaline that surged through him, the smell of kerosene that followed wherever he went, a…

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