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Ray Bradbury Notes-

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 * 1) There were multible historical events that may have inspired him to write the book
 * 2) Nazi book burnings in the 1930s were widely shown after WWII
 * 3) Book burnings were a symbol of repression in nazi germany
 * 4) During 1950s the freedom to read books was considered very important to many
 * 5) Questioning of artistic freedom became a huge subject of debate
 * 6) The book was expanded from its original after artistic repression
 * 7) The book was very popular in subject, being reprinted 48 times in a 25 year period
 * 8) Cencorship has always existed in the united states even though we are guaranteed free speech and press
 * 9) Censorship at many times has been managed by the us government
 * 10) Censorship was allowed in the entertainment world, not being considered an expression of free speech
 * 11) The censorship was lifted in 1952 but still today things are censored in the arts but by organized pressure groups
 * 12) Rays own publishers censored some things in the book to make it more acceptable to sell for schools
 * 13) Today there are many attempts to limit access to things for children
 * 14) Media today is rated and gives the responsibility of censoring to the people
 * 15) Poitical repression and dictatorship were highly publicized in the 30s and 40s
 * 16) The cold war began entered by the US and Western Europe
 * 17) The main idea of it was democracy versus communism, with the soviet union
 * 18) The soviets were often in the news for repression of authors and book censorship
 * 19) In Fahrenheit 451 Ray shows a distain for televisions, it is destructive to viewers
 * 20) At this time the us went through a time of rebuilding the market, military economies rose
 * 21) People were encourage to work hard to get ahead, follow orders, and organize
 * 22) Montag shows thesecharacteristics in the book
 * 23) The 1950s was early times for teevision, many people did seek to have one
 * 24) Today books and television are high competitors
 * 25) 1950s school started using televisions, due to dropped reading levels of students
 * 26) Used in the books to show the reduced use of literature
 * 27) "Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more," Captain Beatty tells Montag
 * 28) Many inventions were created during the time of WWII, the atomic bomb
 * 29) Fear of a nuclear threat was seen during the cold war with the soviet union
 * 30) The fear of technology was common in 1950s, many movies showed robots turning against humans

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31. Rays thinks that are afraid of science fiction 32. He believes that many people see science fiction as trivial 33. But science fiction is important, when technology is destroying certain aspects of our world 34. His favorite childhood literary works include bible stories, comic books 35. Believes in a supreme value of literature, it is the most important thing in the world 36. He became fascinated with literature at a young age 37. He is highly intrigued by metaphors, calls himself a collector 38. His influence includes roman and greek mythology, things that are magical 39. The depression impacted his life, his family moved to los angeles due to struggles 40. He often times used to let himself be influenced by other writers 41. He read many books about things that were popular at the time 42. This lead him to write books in this way 43. Whenever something was needed to be written you write it to make yourself happy 44. In Fahrenheit 451, it shows literacy outlawed, books are not allowed, and small groups keep the act of reading alive privately 45. The book was written in his garage, then move to a library typewriter due to distractions at home 46. The first draft was finished in just 9 days, a shortened version 47. The story ended up predicting many of the technologies we now have today 48. He states that he never set out to predict the future, it just happened 49. The book has even influenced technology, the Walkman was an idea based on the book 50. There has been one film adaptation of the book, and others have considered remaking it

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51. One of the most praised American authors o science fiction and fantasy 52.He grew up in illinois, Arizona, and los angeles 53. After graduating from high school he chose not to go to college 54. He bagan a job selling newspapers, then started to seriously write science fiction and fantasy stories 55. In 2000 he received the National Book Award for distinguished contribution to the American letters 56. The book Fahrenheit 451 is considered a dystopian novel 57. The story was written from 1947-1953 and puplished in 1953 in the US 58. This time period was around the time of many key events in history 59. Many books are created with utopian societies, showing how civilization could be improved 60. Often times starting in the 20th century fictional societies in stories bagan showing a dark and oppressive aspect 61. Rather then an ideal utopia authors created nightmarish dystopias, showing warnings about societies problems 62. Fahrenheit 451 shows this dystopian aspect in the evil govt banning books 63. In the 1950s the US saw the banning of certain filmmakers actors, and screenwriters who the FBI considered communist 64. Many faculty of universities were backlisted for the communist reason as well 65. 1950s included rising ownership of televisions 66. Broadcasting of television networks grew as well 67. Televisions are displayed in the book as the walls, 3 or 4 walled television

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68. Got the idea for burning books, recalls when he was 15 Hitler burned books in the streets of Berlin 69. As well he learned about the burnings of libraries in Alexandria 5000 years ago 70. Learning of these book burnings was terribly saddening to him 71. He himself is an educator which meant that all of his educators and libraries could be burnt, this meant losing all of his heroes 72. He says that he did no ttry to predict the future but protect and prevent 73. He trys to influence people to go the libraries and be sensible 74. He wishes to teach people they are actually alive through literature 75. He did not intend for the growth and transformation of Montag in the book 76.Montag was ironically educated by a teen, many teens today avoid learning 77. The teen is enlightened, she is alive through what she knows 78. The book that has influenced his life the most is The Christmas Carol, it is a book about life and death, and triumph 79. He believes that people should read novels so that they can solve the mystery of what we love 80. People have to change their interests often like moving from one book to another