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 * Farenheit 451 and Ray Bradbury historical background (outline is on paper, couldn't save it)**

Brainstorming- [] [] Why did he write the book? Include background of author Where did the ideas come from? Technology at his time, compared to the book. Global and regional conflicts going on at the time Any influences in his personal life that may have affected the book. Describe process of writing book. Did he get help?
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 * 1) Book was published in 1953
 * 2) The book was written as a social criticism warning against the danger of censorship
 * 3) Book was science fiction, very popular at the time
 * 4) Says that government ruins society by limiting culture and creativity
 * 5) Book is a futuristic Totalitarian society
 * 6) Was developed in the years following World War 2
 * 7) Condemns the heyday of McCarthyism
 * 8) Also the anti-intellectualism of the defeated Nazis
 * 9) Was scared of an authoritarian society and government
 * 10) He wrote it as kind of a protest against editors that change writing
 * 11) Editors had strict control over books and messed up originality and creativity
 * 12) The book has been edited to remove foul language
 * 13) The novel is still relevant today
 * 14) Talks about burning books, minority offense, and overstimulated society without room for literature and such.
 * 15) Book talks about ignorance vs knowledge
 * 16) Electric eyed snake and mechanical hound show what he thinks will happen
 * 17) The line between life and death is unclear in the futuristic society
 * 18) Dominated technology, seashells, plasma screens, show how he didn’t like technology
 * 19) In book, truth is hidden by government
 * 20) Religion is mentioned, bible

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 * 1) !950, television was very popular
 * 2) People mindlessly stared at the screen, some thought it was the end of individualism and literacy like Ray Bradbury
 * 3) He started of writing horror stories but later began to write science fiction
 * 4) Created the Martian Chronicles
 * 5) The 1950 red scare, book banning of communists
 * 6) Many things during the 1950s were banned including specific people. Hollywood Blacklist
 * 7) He said book burnings based on the Nazi burnings in 1933
 * 8) Already began to write about censor ship in Usher 2 of the Martian chronicles
 * 9) First wrote the fireman in 1951
 * 10) The only books aloud to be read in the book are comic books
 * 11) The book was his only successful novel
 * 12) Bradbury thinks that technological advances are easier with no literature
 * 13) Many other science fiction writers wrote protests about censorship
 * 14) Bradbury thinks that the society will have two atomic wars
 * 15) Atomic bomb in book was influenced by the previous atomic bomb set off in Russia in 1949.
 * 16) This gives the idea of an atomic race
 * 17) Book has the idea of a peace emerging after a war
 * 18) We identify criminals by their DNA like the mechanical hound in the book
 * 19) Fiction in published magazines has declined greatly over the years
 * 20) We use anti’depressants today like the tranquilizers that mildred used

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 * 1) Born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920
 * 2) Wrote many stories and spent most of his life behind a type writer
 * 3) The formative years of his early life spend a great deal in influencing his writings
 * 4) He wrote Greentown in the 20’s about the safety and security of home. Greentown means Waukegan
 * 5) In 1934, they moved, as a teenager he roller skated around Hollywood which he saw some media
 * 6) He was in the drama club and acted in highschool
 * 7) Snow Longley Housh taught him about poetry and Jeannet Johnson taught him to write short stories, they heavily influenced Bradburies writings
 * 8) Joined the Los Angeles science fiction league
 * 9) He wrote many short stories in the 30’s
 * 10) Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, Robert Heinlein and Henry Hasse were all his mentors
 * 11) The Martian Chronicles established his writing as science fiction
 * 12) He married Maggie McClure in 1947
 * 13) The Martian Chronicles themes : America's anxieties in the early 1950's, the threat of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and the fear of foreign political powers.
 * 14) The book is about a totalitarian government that has banned all print
 * 15) O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for magazine articles, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Grand Master Award
 * 16) Had a lot of involvement in film and theater
 * 17) Many works turned to movies like in the Twilight Zone
 * 18) Created Ray Bradbury Theater from 1986 to 1992
 * 19) Still publishes poems, plays and essays
 * 20) He was also a idea consultant for many projects and organizations

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 * 1) The most celebrated science fiction writer of America
 * 2) Got a job selling newspaper didn’t go to college
 * 3) First book was Dark Carnival published in 1947, realized his style of writing
 * 4) he has produced over five hundred short stories, plays, novels, and poems
 * 5) received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000
 * 6) The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes were his major works
 * 7) Setting takes place in an unknown city in America
 * 8) Captain Beatty and the Mechanical Hound are the Antagonists
 * 9) Has the theme of the world in the future
 * 10) Book burning in the Book came from the book burnings in Nazi Germany of 1933
 * 11) These book burnings were held in public
 * 12) Blacklisting of filmmakers and such
 * 13) FBI considered these people as communists
 * 14) Television broadcast and television activities were very popular at the time
 * 15) This reflects to the big full wall tv screens in the book
 * 16) The book fits the dystopia style tradition
 * 17) The climax of the book is Montag running away from the hound and the bombing of the city
 * 18) Most dystopian novels have a dark negative aspect on the future society
 * 19) A lot of these are designed to warn about moderb problems like in Bradburies books
 * 20) Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, George Orwell’s 1984, andAldous Huxley’s Brave New World are all other dystopian novels.

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