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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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    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 about his way of life. As you can see, people can…

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    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 and i'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together” (Bradbury 5). Montag sees this girl walking and…

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    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 prominent scenes where hope is present.. The phoenix comes up from the ashes as a new bird, it creates life out of fire the same way Montag will help do with the world. After reading Fahrenheit 451 the reader can reflect and start to pinpoint…

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    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 Captain Beatty by…

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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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    Bradbury Summary The book mentioned above is a fictional novel that explores a dystopian world where the people are forbidden from reading books and assessing any form of knowledgeable material. The story revolves around the protagonist who is known as Montag. He is a fireman who is at first proud of his job that involves burning the books that are confiscated from the people. The protagonist transforms gradually and at last, he joins a rebel group that does not support the ideologies of the…

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    451, Guy Montag believes that he lives in a utopia. Those beliefs are shattered when he meets Clarisse McClellan, who tells him all her ideas about the past and present of their society, which makes Montag question everything around him. Montag and Clarisse live in a society where burning books is the law and firemen are paid to start fires and not put them out. Books are banned and anyone found hiding any is sent to a mental institution or burned along with their books and homes. Montag lives…

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    PLOT • Takes place in futuristic America • Nighttime: Montag heads home from the fire station fulfilling his task of burning books where he encounters Clarisse McClellan • Clarisse recalls about the past the way the city use to be • Clarisse asks Montag a life deciding question “Are you happy? • At first, Montag responded yes, but when he get home he is started to question himself • More frequently Montag see’s Clarisse and they appear to develop their friendship everyday • The next few…

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