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Fahrenheit 451

"About Ray Bradbury." //Ray Bradbury//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .


 * 1) published more than 500 works
 * 2) recieved national book award in 2000
 * 3) appeals to young audiences
 * 4) he is also a playwrite and poet
 * 5) Ray Bradbury's work has been included in four //Best American Short Story//collections
 * 6) He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award
 * 7) the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
 * 8) the Benjamin Franklin Award
 * 9) the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America
 * 10) the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 11) In 1982 he created the interior metaphors for the Spaceship Earth display at Epcot
 * 12) "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along."
 * 13) four daughters and had eight grandchildren
 * 14) He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938.
 * 15) born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois

"The Big Read | Fahrenheit 451." //The Big Read | National Endowment for the Arts//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Bradbury wrote //Fahrenheit 451//on a rental typewriter in the basement of UCLA's Lawrence Clark Powell Library
 * 2) The book came out to amazing reviews
 * 50,000 copies a year
 * 1) "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. The book wrote itself in nine days, because the library told me to do it."
 * 2) "Well, Hitler of course. When I was fifteen, he burnt the books in the streets of Berlin . Then along the way I learned about the libraries in Alexandria burning five thousand years ago. That grieved my soul. Since I'm self-educated, that means my educators—the libraries—are in danger. And if it could happen in Alexandria, if it could happen in Berlin, maybe it could happen somewhere up ahead, and my heroes would be killed."
 * 3) "I've tried not to predict, but to protect and to prevent. 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. I can teach people to really know they're alive."
 * 4) "Did you think of this book from the beginning being about the growth, the transformation of Montag's character?' "No. Everything just has to happen because it has to happen. The wonderful irony of the book is that Montag is educated by a teenager. She doesn't know what she is doing. She is a bit of a romantic sap, and she wanders through the world. She's really alive though, you see. That is what is attractive about her. And Montag is attracted to her romantic sappiness."
 * 5) "Well, when Mrs. Hudson is willing to burn with her books. That's the turning point, when it's all over and she's willing to die with her loved ones, with her dogs, with her cats, with her books. She gives up her life. She'd rather die than be without them."
 * 6) "Because we are trying to solve the mystery of our loves, no matter what kind you have. Quite often there's an end to it and you have to find a new love. We move from novel to novel."
 * 7) He was influenced by hitler
 * 8) he was alive during the book burnings
 * 9) he wrote in the library because his house was too crowded
 * 10) he would rather write about humans instead of technology
 * 11) His wife said this about him "Once I figured out that he wasn't stealing books, that was it. I fell for him."
 * 12) Cold War imperils writers' civil liberties in the U.S. and their lives in the Soviet Union while he was writing this in the 1950's
 * 13) "The paper burns, but the words fly away."
 * 14) the book describes three holocausts
 * 15) Bradbury started out writing for the pulps and wound up writing for the ages
 * 16) //Fahrenheit 451//'s final section finds Montag seizing his own fate for the first time.
 * 17) The three main sections of Ray Bradbury's //Fahrenheit 451// all end in fire

Rothman, David. "Ray Bradbury on Fahrenheit 451: ‘I Wasn’t Worried about Censorship—I Was Worried about People Being Turned into Morons by TV’." //TeleRead: News and Views on E-books, Libraries, Publishing and Related Topics//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].


 * 1) “Look, this is //my// work, and this is what I //really//meant.”
 * 2) his main target there was not censorship but the future dumbing down of civilization by big-screen TVs
 * 3) his main target there was because people had more reliance on television news and the like
 * 4) during the McCarthy period, he says that President Eisenhower said to Put the books back.
 * 5) he was annoyed that people were trying to decide why he wrote it
 * 6) he thinks that text should b the star, not movies
 * 7) Fahrenheit 451 is about both censorship and the idiocy of TV
 * 8) “A computer is a typewriter. I have two typewriters, I don’t need another one.”
 * 9) [|Brian Carnell]
 * 10) [|David Rothman]
 * 11) [|Bill Janssen]
 * 12) all of these people commented on his work
 * 13) politics could have influenced him

"Life in the 1950’s – The Fifties - Fifties History." //Fifties Sixties Fashion, TV, Movies, Hair, Food, Cars, 50's 60's Facts and History about 1950's and 1960's - Clip Art and Information//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].


 * 1) life was simple
 * 2) black americans life was not simple
 * 3) Segregation and racism was still part of life
 * 4) Jobs were mainly industrial and agricultural
 * 5) television was becoming more and more a part of everyday life
 * 6) more families had televisions in their homes
 * 7) AM radio was also becoming more popular
 * 8) 45 records, jukeboxes, and eventually albums were becoming more popular
 * 9) Music was getting larger
 * 10) radio and television and teenagers were experiencing more independence and freedom
 * 11) life in the 1950's were still very strict
 * 12) women were still housewives
 * 13) children were seen but not heard
 * 14) children obeyed parents
 * 15) there were changes in clothing style
 * 16) segregation, of course, didn't change until rosa parks
 * 17) the civil rights movement
 * 18) he was living throughout all of this
 * 19) this may have influenced him
 * 20) the world was changing
 * 21) there was more technology being introduced
 * 22) that ties into the morals of the book
 * 23) in the book, people were reliant on tv
 * 24) montag doesn't like that
 * 25) bradbury didn't like that

"Ray Bradbury's Predictions in Fahrenheit 451." //Get Essays, Research Papers, Term Papers & College Essays Here//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].


 * 1) he made predictions about the future
 * 2) he was right in some ways
 * 3) He predicted that nobody would speak more than a couple of words at a time to a certain person.
 * 4) ^ that is already starting to happen
 * 5) predicted that people would drive by places so fast that the y don't even know what they passed.
 * 6) ^ that has not happened yet, but probably will
 * 7) Being obsessed with entertainment, which is probably the most obvious aspect of this book, is very important in our world and Montag's made up society
 * 8) montag and bradbury lived in similar societies
 * 9) they both lived in societies where technology was growing and people were ependent on tv