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Ray Bradbury. Boyle Johnston, Amy E. "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Page 2 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly." //Los Angeles News, Events, Restaurants, Music LA Weekly//. 30 May 2007. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. [].

1. Recived a special citations for the first time a writer of science fiction and fantasy has been honored. 2. longtime Los Angeles resident 3. had less to do with the infirmities of age 4. He will soon be turning 87 5. Has lived in Cheviot Hills for more than 50 years 6. He wore his now-standard outfit of a blue dress shirt with a white collar and a jack-o’-lantern tie 7. Belives most people did not understand his literary work from his book 8. It is widely taught in junior high and high schools and is for many students the first time they learn the names Aristotle, Dickens and Tolstoy 9. says it is not a story about government censorship 10. its a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature 11. “Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,” 12. His fear in 1953 that television would kill books has 13. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as “walls” and its actors as “family,”

"About Ray Bradbury." //Ray Bradbury//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. []. 1. American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet 2. He became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners (1938 -1942) 3. Spends his nights in public libarys 4. Married since 1947 5. Wife has many many cats 6. Four daughters and had eight grandchildren 7. Maggie passed away in November of 2003

"Historical Context: Fahrenheit 451." 10 Mar. 2008. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].

1. wrote the book in the early 1950s 2. book burnings of the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930s 3. became a major symbol of the repression that followed in Nazi Germany 4. He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair 5. Censorship was allowed in the entertainment world, not being considered an expression of free speech 6. The censorship was lifted in 1952 but still today things are censored in the arts but by organized pressure groups 7. Today there are many attempts to limit access to things for children 8. Media today is rated and gives the responsibility of censoring to the people 9. There were multible historical events that may have inspired him to write the book 10. The main idea of it was democracy versus communism, with the soviet union 11. Soviets were often in the news for repression of authors and book censorship 12. From the early days of television in the 1950s, when every American scrambled to have one in the home, to this day, watching television has competed with reading books 13. 1950s, schools began to use television 14. ^ it was becoming apparent that children's reading levels were dropping 15. Bradbury, who had been nurtured as a child on books 16. The fear that destructive atomic power might fall into the hands of terrorists 17. Bradbury re-creates the atmosphere of fear and repression that prevailed when he was writing the book.

18. development of robots 19. "sniff out" its prey 20. This fear of technology was pervasive during the 1950s.

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1. most famous and popular novels 2. “dystopias.” 3. 1950 was the year that television became a truly mass-culture phenomenon in the United States 4. People would visit friends to watch tv 5. beginning of the “Red Scare" 6. This was also the period of the Hollywood blacklist 7. ^ actors and directors working on Hollywood films or television

"What Happened in 1950 Inc. Pop Culture, Prices and Events." //Where People, History and Memories Join Together from The People History Site//. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. []


 * 1) //start of the changes that would be seen in the next 2 decades//
 * 2) great depression was becoming a memory
 * 3) families were moving into the suburbs
 * 4) 12 inch black and white TV sets
 * 5) watching cartoons at Cinema matinees
 * 6) times were gentler, not much violince
 * 7) the consumer revolution, new start
 * 8) average family income was $3,300 a year
 * 9) Yearly Inflation Rate USA//1.09%//
 * 10) Yearly Inflation Rate UK//2.8%//
 * 11) Cost of new house: $8,450.00
 * 12) wages per year: $3,210.00
 * 13) Cost of a gallon: 18 cents
 * 14) Cost of a new car: $1,510.00
 * 15) Stromburg Black and White Television: $249.95
 * 16) Ball Point Pen costs 25.00 $
 * 17) Samsonite Case: $25.00
 * 18) Clock Radio: $59.95
 * 19) born this year
 * 20) Technology, First TV remote control
 * 21) Milk was still delivered to doorsteps
 * 22) he never set out to predict the future
 * 23) The book has even influenced technology, the Walkman was an idea based on the book
 * 24) There h as been one film adaptation of the book,
 * 25) and others have considered remaking it
 * 26) he is now 86
 * 27) Writting makes him happy, its the first thing he does in the moring when he wakes up.
 * 28) had a number of recent historical events on which to base // Fahrenheit 451 //
 * 29) Has lived in Cheviot Hills for more than 50 years
 * 30) He wore his now-standard outfit of a blue dress shirt with a white collar and a jack-o’-lantern tie
 * 31) Wrote for magazines
 * 32) wrote stage plays
 * 33) has much money
 * 34) In both a father and grandfather
 * 35) He is influenced by sience fiction heros
 * 36) Likes to write many short essays