Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books (and the houses they're found in), loves his job --- until he meets a young woman who causes him to start reading the books he once regarded as kindling. ... The futuristic firemen seek out and burn books. It is a crime, in this society, to own or read books. ... Montag's joy in burning books is questioned after a conversation with Clarisse McClellan. ... While Americans are guaranteed the rights to both free speech and a free press in the Bill of Rights, a history of censorship has nevertheless existed in this county. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury creates a world in which books are strictly prohibited. ... Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story, is a "fireman" whose job is to burn books. ... The fact that Montag travels out to the fugitives and frees himself from the corrupt society, Montag has shown progression with himself. ... The fire pit is acting a barrier against the contaminated society from which Montag just escaped and unveils a natural, nonviolent, purification free of harmful aspects. ... There is only one "right" way of using fire and that is by burning books, simi...

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They burn books and people that associate with books or any kind of knowledge. ... They discriminated and will kill anyone that has access to books. ... Not everyone's born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone must me made equal," (Bradbury, 65). ... He encourages the discrimination against knowledge and burns anyone or anything associated with books. ... He takes joy in his job of burning books. ...

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Imagine a future in which all books are banned and censored in an attempt to keep the human race from thinking for themselves. ... The firemen go to people's houses where there are reports of books and set the books and the people inside ablaze. ... The firefighters of the city use fire to destroy all books. ... Throughout the novel, the firemen are taking books and destroying them, not allowing the citizens of the town to gain the knowledge from the books destroyed. ... The people do not know of the better life when they were free to do whatever they wanted and read whatever they w...

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Firefighters that instead of stopping fires, start them by setting books ablaze. ... After Clarisse mysteriously disappears, Montag turns to books out of curiosity. ... He then is forced to burn the books and his house by his firemen "friends"." ... Through these policies, the populace evolves from seeking out diversity of opinion to accepting and promoting a single view of society and legality.Therefore making the population feel completely free, without actually giving them a chance to make any informed choices. ... This is what both books show the reader. ...

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However, by burning books new ideas are limited and the average person is prevented from becoming educated. ... Not everyone born free and equal as the constitution says, but everyone made equal .A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. ... Officer Beatty was trying to explain the danger of books to Montag. ... Beatty was a very educated man, and he possibly could have seen the good in books. ... Montag would rather plant books in a fellow employee's house as a decoy than get his task done legitimately. ...

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These books show the cause and effect of utopianism, creating a form of the opposite, a distopia. In all these books, where the situation is ideal, something that everyone wants becomes the root of complete chaos and destruction. The authors of these books, Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) and William Golding (Lord of the Flies) all write detailed stories in which the main character is the only character that is realistic in their thoughts, feelings and beliefs. ... She represents the symbol of non-conformity and free thought and a total contrast to Mildred; sh...

• Word Count: 1298
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• Grade Level: High School