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 * Source 1: **
 * "The Big Read | Fahrenheit 451." The Big Read | National Endowment for the Arts. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. **
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 * 1) ** born on August 22, 1920 **
 * 2) ** family drove across the country to Los Angeles in 1934 **
 * 3) ** piling out of their jalopy at every stop to plunder the local library in search of L. Frank Baum's Oz books **
 * 4) ** 1936 experienced a rite of passage familiar to most science-fiction readers: the realization that he was not alone **
 * 5) ** At a secondhand bookstore in Hollywood, he discovered a handbill promoting meetings of the "Los Angeles Science Fiction Society" **
 * 6) ** he joined a weekly Thursday-night conclave that would grow to attract such science-fiction legends **
 * 7) ** was rejected from the magazine Weird Tales **
 * 8) ** After a rejection he sent his short story "Homecoming" to Mademoiselle **
 * 9) ** editorial assistant named Truman Capote saved the manuscript of Homecoming **
 * 10) ** 10. **** "Homecoming" won a place in The O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947 **
 * 11) ** 11. **** most significant event in 1947 was surely the beginning of his long marriage to Marguerite McClure **
 * 12) ** 12. **** 1950, Bradbury's second book, The Martian Chronicles **
 * 13) ** 13. **** wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a rental typewriter in the basement of UCLA's Lawrence Clark Powell Library **
 * 14) ** 14. **** book came out to rapturous reviews **
 * 15) ** 15. **** To this day it sells at least 50,000 copies a year **
 * 16) ** 16. **** become a touchstone around the world for readers **
 * 17) ** 17. **** In 2004, Bradbury received the National Medal of Arts **
 * 18) ** 18. **** Accepted a citation recognizing "his gift for language, his insights into the human condition, and his commitment to the freedom of the individual." **
 * 19) ** 19. **** small house filled with the distractions of two young children **
 * 20) ** 20. **** Liked author legends Robert A. Heinlein, Leigh Brackett, and future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard **
 * Source 2: **
 * "About Ray Bradbury." Ray Bradbury. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. **
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 * 1) **rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think **
 * 2) **more than five hundred published works **
 * 3) **writes short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse **
 * 4) **exemplify the American imagination at its most creative **
 * 5) **his words are never forgotten **
 * 6) **masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime **
 * 7) **awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal **
 * 8) **for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters **
 * 9) **National Medal of Arts in 2004 **
 * 10) **most beloved books, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES **
 * 11) **constant appeal to audiences young and old **
 * 12) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">has written 59 books **
 * 13) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Has a star on the walk of fame **
 * 14) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Has a medal for distinguished contribution **
 * 15) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Received a medal from President Bush and the first lady **
 * 16) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Appeared at the ComicCon in San Diego in July, 2006 **
 * 17) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Went to the LA book fair in 2004 **
 * 18) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Went to the Long Beach Convention Center with The Children of the World Touring Group in 2001 **
 * 19) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Has been interviewed over the years **
 * 20) **<span style="font-family: 'Constantia','serif';">Is a very well-known author **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Source 3- **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 12px;">Bradbury, Ray D. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">There is a device called seashells **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cars drove incredibly fast **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Signs expanded to be miles long **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Over dose could be fixed **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mechanical hounds were developed **
 * 6) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Books were burned **
 * 7) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">There were wall TV’s **
 * 8) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Front porches were gone because people didn’t sit around and talk **
 * 9) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rocking chairs were gone because there were useless **
 * 10) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">If you owned a book, your house was burned **
 * 11) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fireman didn’t put out fires **
 * 12) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fireman started fires **
 * 13) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">There were alarms that report when someone was at the house **
 * 14) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">There was no reading materials printed **
 * 15) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Transportation was much faster **
 * 16) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Seashells were ear pieces **
 * 17) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To think outside of the box meant something was wrong with u **
 * 18) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Being a fireman was a respected job **
 * 19) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Because of Clarisse, Guy changes his whole look on the world **
 * 20) **<span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The bible was one of many books to be burne **
 * Source 4- **
 * Bradbury, Ray. "Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury CliffsNotes - Study Guide and Help." Get Homework Help with CliffsNotes Study Guides. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. **
 * <http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/Fahrenheit-451-Book-Summary.id-106.html>. **
 * 1) ** Set in the twenty-fourth century **
 * 2) ** a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population **
 * 3) ** The individual is not accepted **
 * 4) ** the intellectual is considered an outlaw **
 * 5) ** Television has replaced the common perception of family **
 * 6) ** fireman is now seen as a flamethrower **
 * 7) ** destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire **
 * 8) ** Books are considered evil because they make people question and think **
 * 9) ** people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past **
 * 10) ** Clarisse is antithesis **
 * 11) ** No one except Clarisse ponder things such as happiness, love, and, more importantly, the contents of the books that are burns. **
 * 12) ** machine to save life in your own home **
 * 13) ** they receive script for an interactive television program **
 * 14) ** world used to be an entirely different world, one where pictures showed actual people and people talked about important things **
 * 15) ** the content of the books are found hard to comprehend **
 * 16) ** Poems scare people to the point they cry **
 * 17) ** People who wish for books to excepted were exiled and known to be dead **
 * 18) ** There is a war that begins at the end of the book **
 * 19) ** This is to be the authors thought of the future **
 * 20) ** People roll over peoples death like its nothing **