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A, A. "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly." //Los Angeles News, Events, Restaurants, Music LA Weekly//. LA Weekly News, 30 May 2007. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) less to do with the infirmities of age
 * 2) He wanted to give a speech
 * 3) how people do not understand his most literary work
 * 4) is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship
 * 5) book about censorship
 * 6) his fear in 1953 that television would kill books
 * 7) radio has contributed to our ‘growing lack of attention
 * 8) makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again
 * 9) have become a short story reading people
 * 10) //Fahrenheit 451// is not the state — it is the people
 * 11) envisioned television as an opiate
 * 12) democratic society whose diverse population turns against books
 * 13) but a society so diverse that all groups were minorities
 * 14) his book imagined a future of giant color sets — flat panels that hung on walls like moving paintings
 * 15) television was used to broadcast meaningless drivel to divert attention,
 * 16) and thought, away from an impending war
 * 17) he referred to these props as metaphors
 * 18) has always been a fan, and advocate, of popular culture despite his criticisms of it
 * 19) it’s hard to believe I wrote such stories when I was younger
 * 20) he wrote it he was far more concerned with the dulling effects of TV on people than he was on the silencing effect of a heavy-handed government

"The Big Read | Fahrenheit 451." //The Big Read | National Endowment for the Arts//. THe Big Read. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) wrote //Fahrenheit 451// on a rental typewriter in the basement of UCLA's Lawrence Clark Powell Library, where he had taken refuge from a small house filled with the distractions of two young children
 * 2) wrote book in nine days
 * 3) hitler idea for book burning
 * 4) I ran up and down stairs and grabbed books off the shelf to find any kind of quote and ran back down and put it in the novel
 * 5) The book wrote itself in nine days, because the library told me to do it
 * 6) I'm self-educated
 * 7) my educators—the libraries—are in danger
 * 8) my heroes would be killed
 * 9) i've never believed in prediction
 * 10) I've tried not to predict, but to protect and to prevent
 * 11) If I can convince people to stop doing what they're doing and go to the library and be sensible, without pontificating and without being self-conscious, that's fine
 * 12) never about transformation of montag
 * 13) the wonderful irony of the book is that Montag is educated by a teenager
 * 14) Montag is attracted to her romantic sappiness
 * 15) Well, when Mrs. Hudson is willing to burn with her books. That's the turning point,
 * 16) trying to solve the mystery of our loves
 * 17) Quite often there's an end to it and you have to find a new love
 * 18) We move from novel to novel
 * 19) I think that book has influenced my life more than almost any other book
 * 20) it's a book about life, it's a book about death. It's a book about triumph

Schellenberg, James. "Review of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451." //Challenging Destiny//. Challenging Destiny, 19 Jan. 1998. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) "It was a pleasure to burn"
 * 2) "The Hearth and the Salamander" introduces Montag at home and at work
 * 3) "The Sieve and the Sand" finds Montag increasingly disillusioned with his society
 * 4) "Burning Bright" concerns Montag's escape and the eventual end of the society he left behind
 * 5) It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and **changed**
 * 6) by no means a conventional movie
 * 7) relationships completely empty of emotion and the systemic stifling of minds
 * 8) Bradbury's vision leaves this future etched in our minds long after the book is finished
 * 9) deep loneliness in this book, the lonely of heart and the lonely of mind
 * 10) becomes unbearably sad
 * 11) it's not the literal solution that he trusts in
 * 12) Not to find out about the Mechanical Hound, or the future and its gadgets, or anything like that
 * 13) The victory of the individual at the end of Fahrenheit 451 is achieved at the cost of the self-destruction of the rest of society
 * 14) The young girl and the old man serve as guides for Montag on his journey of self-awareness
 * 15) Bradbury's book argues that such a repressive society
 * 16) would self-implode, simply because it has no flexibility and has no fertile ground of old ideas to generate new ideas
 * 17) the bookish rebels that Montag meets at the end of the story are simply waiting
 * 18) Montag's society are certainly clumsy and inefficient compared to the biological ones used in Brave New World
 * 19) It's reassuring to have at least one cautionary tale that has a hopeful ending
 * 20) crazy teenagers, out to drive over helpless pedestrians

"Fahrenheit 451 Themes | GradeSaver." //Study Guides & Essay Editing | GradeSaver//. Grade Saver. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) doesn't give a clear explanation of why censorship has become so great in this futuristic society
 * 2) Fast cars, loud music, and massive advertisements create an over stimulated society without room for literature, self-reflection, or appreciation of nature
 * 3) idea that different "minority" groups were offended by certain types of literature
 * 4) Beatty mentions dog lovers offended by books about cats, and cat lovers offended by books about dogs
 * 5) expresses his own sensitivity to attempts to restrict his writing
 * 6) he feels censored by letters suggesting he should give stronger roles to women or black men
 * 7) Bradbury sees such suggestions and interventions as the first step towards censorship and book burning
 * 8) Is ignorance bliss, or do knowledge and learning provide true happiness
 * 9) in his belief that knowledge reigns, fights against a society that embraces and celebrates ignorance
 * 10) the firemen promote ignorance to maintain the sameness of society
 * 11) Montag begins to wonder what life truly is and why it feels so empty and dead
 * 12) inanimate objects that appear to have lives of their own
 * 13) Montag's interest in knowledge and dedication to a new and better society saved him
 * 14) This animal imagery expresses the importance of nature in life
 * 15) The lack of nature, or the manipulation of nature causes death and destruction
 * 16) Bradbury is commenting on the negative influence of technological development in this world and the destructive potential of technology in our society
 * 17) Montag agrees that The Bible is the book he will memorize in order to one day, in a new society, reprint
 * 18) The apocalypse Montag has witnessed has clear connections to the apocalypse foreseen in the Bible
 * 19) This is an allusion to the biblical story of the miracle at Canaan where Christ transforms water into wine
 * 20) Montag's discovery of the truth and his dedication to living a life of truth save him from the ultimate destruction bombs bring to the city