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Censored In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 the characters, cultures, and themes creates an interesting story about a society in the United States that doesn't value human connections. This book highlights the effects on a culture if the entire population was censored from reading or learning virtually anything that the government wasn't comfortable with them learning. I will be exploring the relationship between the Main character Montag and his wife Mildred, the education system, and the technology that is used in this realm. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 book and other forms of knowledge are forbidden so the government has squads of “Firemen” who are government workers that are tasked with destroying all the books in the United States, they …show more content…

In the story the main character Montag is one of these government workers while his wife Mildred mostly stays at home as a housewife. At the beginning of the book Montag starts to develop an interest in literature. "Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books" (Bradbury, 49). He starts to amass a small collection of books behind his ventilator grill, which he ends up changing up his spot and montage starts to hide them in a bush outside near the alley. Mildred is very unhappy about montage having a collection of books, she believes that her and Montag should lay low and just enjoy what the government has already given them. “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody”(Bradbury, 69)! This

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