Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. During his childhood, Bradbury would have these frightening dreams, which later he transformed into books. He became a full-time writer in 1943. He often mixes science fiction with social criticism and writes about the ruinous tendency in humans to use technology at the expense of mortality as seen in one of his many books, Fahrenheit 451. In this book the government destroyed books to prevent people from destructive thoughts. I think Bradbury heard about this (burning books) during World War II and heard about the horrors of Nazi Germany. I enjoyed this book because it was enlightening to read about a world reigned by mind control and how society is affected as a whole if something so familiar to us as books were taken away.
I think this book was symbolic because it was about people’s loss of freedom. Guy Montag lives in a world that allows no books. This is a society which discourages free-thoughts and opinion, two qualities which are mainly attributed to those who read. If people are found with books, the firemen burn the house containing the books and they are sent to prison. Montag, one of the firemen, realizes after ten years, that what this government is permitting is wrong and unjust, so he contacts a professor who educates him and becomes his accomplice in this so-called The message of this novel is to appreciate books and the knowledge and imagination they give us. Do not take knowledge and freedom for granted. We have to fight to keep both and if we are indifferent we may loose them. This is seen during the book when Montag reads a part of a poem to four old ladies he knows. After he has finished, one of them starts to cry. The others become angry with Montag, “I knew it would happen! I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush! Now I’ve had it proved to me. You’re nasty, Mr.
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Title of work: Fahrenheit 451 Author and Date: Ray Bradbury 1953 Country of Author: United States Character: 1) Guy Montag He is the main character in Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a fireman who is a very important person in the fire department. What the requirement for firefighters to do in the story isn t really to put out fires, but to start fires. Thus the term firefighters doesn t truly go along, ...
Monatg, you’re nasty.” What this means as far as the theme is concerned is that in this society, books are bad because they move us. However, in reality books are really good because they move us and this is what Montag found out. The main character is Guy Montag who is disturbed by the society he lives in and is challenged to change by the young woman, Clarisse, that causes him to seek out answers with the Professor. Guy has been a fireman for ten years and has become disturbed about burning books. The person that teaches him that the society he lives in is wrong is Clarisse McClellan, a seventeen-year-old girl that is his next-door neighbor. Clarisse is said to be a little crazy in the book. She is full of life and very imaginative. She has a lot of confidence and is very wise. The professor, Faber, is a retired English teacher. Montag met the professor when he was sitting in a park and Faber admitted to being a retired English teacher and talked about poetry. He taught Montag about literature and then directed him to his escape.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was informative because it was about how society was affected if books were forbidden. One of the many strengths of the book was the description of how a world would be if books were outlawed. This showed how without books, minds were easily manipulated. A weakness in the book was Clarisse’s death. The book said that she died in a car crash. Later in the book Montag thinks to himself that the government probably killed her. The thing I didn’t like about this was that they did not go into detail with Clarisse’s character and her character was relevant to the story.
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