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    indicating that minors are not allowed to watch it and fully discretion is needed. Not all people obeys to this and that's one of the major problems. Antonia Peacocke, the writer of the article “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to Unconscious”, demonstrates in her writing that Family Guy has an untreated humor but is very captivating. The show can be controversial because there is actually people who like this type of humor. Like there are others that take this jokes to the heart…

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    I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow” (Bradbury 23-24). This quote is from Clarisse McClellan, who is of the few who know how to think for themselves and was talking to Guy Montag at the time. Which means that she does not think Guy should be a fireman even though that’s what he’s been doing for the past ten years and claimed to…

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    something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Guy Montag and Taylor Greer are embodiments of the them of standing for what you believe in. All of us have at least a little bit of hellfire stuck in our stomachs. The thing that tells us to continue. To march on. The little voice, telling us to suck it up and keep pushing because the endgame is going to pay off exponentially. Each one of us has it, especially our favorite characters. Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 went against every…

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    The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury revolves around a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century, Guy Montage. It introduces a new world in which is mostly controlled by the mass of media, and the censorship has taken over the general population. The individual in that society is not accepted by the government and the retaining knowledge is now considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common family time like talking to each other to playing a board game. In that society…

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    Guy Montag's Farheit 451

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    A man who'd always had charcoal fingers seems to have washed his hands. After 20 years of burning books, Guy Montag met a young girl who led his hands to the water. Clarisse McClellan was "seventeen and crazy," and somehow, she entered his mind and showed him that he was unhappy. Earlier in his life, he'd met an old, cowardly philosopher by the name of Fabor. Fabor also helped push through the thick skull that the society had built up over his brain. Why would these people try to convince…

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    Fahrenheit 451 and the Monomyth Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 we see exam some of the stages of the Monomyth pattern. The stages of the Monomyth are the Departure, Initiation, and Return. We will follow Guy Montag, through each stage of the Monomyth. We will see what it will take for this thirty year old fireman to overcome the challenges that has been placed into his life. The first stage of the Monomyth that we will look at is the departure. In the very beginning of the book, Montag, is…

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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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    Guy Montag is a firefighter who smolders books in a cutting edge American city. In Montag's reality, firefighters begin fires as opposed to putting them out. The general population in this general public don't read books, appreciate nature, invest energy without anyone else's input, think freely, or have important discussions. Rather, they drive quick, watch extreme measures of TV on divider estimate sets, and listen to the radio on "Seashell Radio" sets connected to their ears. All through the…

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    Guy Montag is a dynamic Character in Fahrenheit 451structural narrative for many reasons. The story setting took place in the far future where people are so wrapped up in blissful numbing effect of technology in which they refused to think for themselves, and firemen burned books because it was decided that books make people unhappy. Books were also considered to be a conflict with ideas of society. They were a few small groups that were determined to remember books and start learning. The…

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    Guy Montag is a firefighter in a futuristic world. Therefor, Firefighters don’t fight fires anymore, they cause fires. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Books in this world are different than they are now, they hold something that the society cannot handle. Consequently, the firefighters are ordered to burn them. Montag changes throughout the story by the influence of Clarisse, Faber, and Mildred. Ordinarily, books are a violation of people, so the Government feels that books can…

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