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    narrator and the character spend with them, or that they were introduced at a time in the novel where I was much more preoccupied by the difficulties encountered by the protagonist and whether or not he would survive. The protagonist's name is Guy Montag. He's intriguing to me because he is relentless in his pursuit of knowledge. In a world where books are banned, a chance encounter with an odd girl leaves Guy questioning his life--especially whether he is happy. Soon, he starts to question why…

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    Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in the 24th century. At those days, being a fireman requires burning books and the houses of the owners' of those books. At the beginning, Montag meets with a 17-year-old girl, Clarisse McClennan who is his new neighbor. As the girl is beautiful and young, Montag begins to hate his wife and likes this girl. His wife, Millie is an addict of television. She even sees the life like the television programs and one day it's said on TV that an atomic war will…

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    Book Burning

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    My first thought is that they had to burn books to believe then it would be a perfect community. Like everything that wasn't German was wrong. Also the fact that This Heinrich Heine determined the outcome of the burning of people by saying “they will end in burning human beings.” The Germans thought that they could have a Utopia by burning the books of the Jews, Communists, socialists, and other Degenerates. They thought these books made Germany look like a bad country from like safety standards…

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    Ray Bradburry, takes place in the 24th century, where Guy Montag changes throughout the course of the book. This excerpt is specifically about a time when books were banned everywhere, where technology has taken over. No one in this book, reads, goes and enjoy nature, or talk amongst themselves. They all live a happy life watching television on wall-size set tv’s and listen to the radio on a “Seashell Radio” set attached to their ears. Montag is a firemen who instead of putting fires out, starts…

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    Essay Montag was a very normal fireman, at the beginning. Fireman are men who, when there is a fire go and make the fire go out. But, that is not the case in this dystopian world that Ray Bradbury has made up, it is very different. Fireman in this book do not take fire’s out, Fireman start the fires. But it is not like the fire men go and just start random fires. No, they burn books. The reason why they burn books is because in this story, books are illegal. So in the beginning Montag was a…

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    banned from their world. Montag is a firefighter who burns books for a living and in his most recent call of duty, he didn’t just burn the ladies books, the woman refused to leave her books behind and she burned with them. Importance: People are not supposed to think twice about books, they are viewed bad and the people are raised to believe that burning…

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    protagonist finds that an idealistic world of mindless obedience can be corrupt at heart. Guy Montag is a fireman who holds pride in his job, until he meets Clarisse, who reveals that Montag is not as happy as he thinks he is. He is later informed of Clarisse’s death, and his unhappiness grows. He then meets a man named Faber, and devises a plan to overthrow the firemen workforce, but ultimately fails. In the end, Montag finds that the ashes of his society can lead to its reformation. Bradbury…

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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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    Ray Bradbury sprinkles intelligent themes and morals throughout the book through the characters and the environment. Guy Montag is the protagonist, and the essential “hero” in the story. Montag mostly maintains a lot of the conflict and through it all. Montag uses rhetorical techniques to convey his opinion on the greater good and how it can positively impact someone. Montag had met some pretty different characters, but not one like Clarisse. Clarisse was this little 17 year girl that changed…

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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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