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"Fahrenheit 451: Background Info | LitCharts.com." //LitCharts.com | LitCharts Study Guides | The Faster, Downloadable Alternative to SparkNotes//. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. .


 * 1) Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920
 * 2) Born in Waukegan, Illinois
 * 3) grew up in Illinois, Arizona, and Los Angeles
 * 4) didn't go to college, job was selling newspapers
 * 5) was very interested in science fiction
 * 6) ended up writing his first book, dark carnival, in 1947.
 * 7) Fahrenheit 451 is a gloomy novel
 * 8) it's set in an unnamed city in the future
 * 9) made the opposite of a Utopia
 * 10) Under the Nazi regime in Germany, book burnings of works by “degenerate” authors were held in public.
 * 11) he 1950s in the United States saw the blacklisting of certain filmmakers, actors, and screenwriters
 * 12) FBI considered them Communists
 * 13) The 1950s also saw the rise of television ownership
 * 14) Also had the expansion of television broadcasts in the U.S
 * 15) This might have provided for the foreshadowing of the full-room four-walled televisors that Bradbury imagines

"Fahrenheit 451 Background | GradeSaver." //Study Guides & Essay Editing | GradeSaver//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Book known as science fiction
 * 2) Actually a social criticism warning against the danger of censorship
 * 3) Has the message of an unchecked oppressive government irreparably damages society by limiting the creativity and freedom of its people
 * 4) setting is a futuristic technocratic and totalitarian society that demands order and harmony at the expense of individual rights
 * 5) following World War II, Fahrenheit 451 condemns not only the anti-intellectualism of the defeated Nazi party in Germany, but more immediately the intellectually oppressive political climate of the early 1950's
 * 6) Shown has McCarthyism
 * 7) Fahrenheit 451 reveal a very real apprehension of the danger of the US evolving into an oppressive, authoritarian society in the post-WWII period.
 * 8) Bradbury used this as a vehicle through which to protest what he believed to be the invasiveness of editors who, through their strict control of the books they printed, impair writers' originality and creativity
 * 9) the book is a protest against censorship
 * 10) but has been edited to censor certain words
 * 11) The main message of the book are to show the dangers of censorship and government control
 * 12) he felt that books were becoming superfluous and potentially rebellous.
 * 13) The book is about the value of both people and literature

Bradbury?, Ray. "Ray Bradbury - Information, Facts, and Links." //ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More.// Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) one of the Bradbury earliest books to movies was //It Came From Outer Space//, a 1950s science-fiction genre.
 * 2) From 1985 to 1992, Bradbury hosted //The Ray Bradbury Theater//, a serial television show based on his short stories.
 * 3) Bradbury has written family-oriented material like //The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit//.
 * 4) Despite its box office success and the political firestorm it instigated, the film //Fahrenheit 9/11// angered Bradbury because director Michael Moore appropriated the title of Bradbury’s classic //Fahrenheit 451// without asking permission.
 * 5) Bradbury became a member of the now-famous Clifton Cafeteria’s Science Fiction club
 * 6) which included other notable writers such as Robert Heinlein.
 * 7) Bradbury is best known for his creepier tales

"Student Essay on "Fahrenheit 451": The Dangers of Utopia | BookRags.com | Essays & Criticisms | BookRags.com." //BookRags.com | Study Guides, Lesson Plans, Book Summaries and More//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) The government of the society in this book lie to its people about books and manipulate them into believe that the books are the only source of unhappiness and destruction within the society.
 * 2) Fahrenheit 451's concept verifies that such a reality exists within our society
 * 3) WW2 inspired Bradbury to write a book about Utopia
 * 4) Before WW2, Nazi developed the bookless society, and the Jews rebelled against Nazi, and people lost themselves in new technology.
 * 5) the author shows how government misleads its people by replacing family love with technology
 * 6) by creating a censored and bookless society which leads the main character to rebel against the government
 * 7) a lot of the things in the book's government were compared to Nazis
 * 8) Like the TV walls to distract them, the Nazis tried psychosurgery and electronic mind-control methods on people.
 * 9) The books in the novel were to stop the society from knowledge.
 * 10) He compared this to the government not wanting the people to know everything they are doing.
 * 11) The government is afraid that people will know about their past and rebel for their rights
 * 12) All of this compared to the Nazis, like the long list of banned books in 1933.
 * 13) in the novel, the government of the society has already destroyed most of books so people cannot find out the significance of books
 * 14) (Bradbury 119-120), showed that no bibles or Shakspeare were left
 * 15) then they will forget their memories and they will not be able to think, especially on these very important and famous books,
 * 16) Montag starts to rebel against the government by keeping the books in his house and reading them.
 * 17) kind of like before WWII two Jews friends Franks, and van Daans, rebelled against Nazis by listening to the BBC instead of German broadcasts
 * 18) they also refused to read German books; and also revolted against the restrictions on religion by practicing their own faiths
 * 19) while full aware of the persecutions they might face.
 * 20) Although Captain Beatty has knowledge of how society works and he knows books are useful for the society, he does not have any courage to manipulate people to go against the system or try to change it.
 * 21) A lot of people felt the same way during the WW2 period
 * 22) Political problems were the main inspiration for Bradbury
 * 23) This shows in the world that people of the society lives are affected in many ways because of the government.
 * 24) Which leads to the fact that the government seems to control our lives
 * 25) The novel gives a good and clear message about his views on what they are doing
 * 26) many people have sacrificed their lives for individualism, and freedom

"Fahrenheit 451 Summary." //Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) They live in a futuristic society where he and his coworkers start fires, rather than put them out.
 * 2) Books are banned and burned upon discovery
 * 3) Clarisse McClellan starts talking about nature and gives points of life Montag has never thought of
 * 4) Guy Montag is the protagonist, and eventually betrays the government
 * 5) This happens after talking with Clarisse for a while, and he starts to wonder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even steals one from a book burning.
 * 6) Everyone that works for the fire department is pretty loyal to the government
 * 7) they are convinced that books are evil and must be burned.
 * 8) Faber is a retired english professor.
 * 9) He has books and has knowledge
 * 10) A typical man who works against the government
 * 11) He gets montag some books, and montag reads them, only to get caught.
 * 12) The government against him, he now is considered a fugitive, because of his knowledge.
 * 13) The point of the government doing anything to keep their control and power are showed.
 * 14) They go on a constant chase to catch and kill him.
 * 15) The government wants everyone to remain calm and kills a scapegoat
 * 16) This keeps peace in the society, but yet, is another lie to them
 * 17) The government bombs the area, to show their dominance
 * 18) Only montag and a couple other book people survive.
 * 19) They go and help rise people from the ashes, and attempt to start a new society with books back.
 * 20) the point of fighting for what you believe in is shown. (81 notes)