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=Fahrenheit 451 Notes-=
 * 1) Novel is most often classified as a work of science fiction
 * 2) Social criticism warning against the danger of censorship
 * 3) Unchecked oppressive government irreparably damages society by limiting the creativity and freedom of its people
 * 4) Developed in the years following World War II
 * 5) Fahrenheit 451 condemns not only the anti-intellectualism of the defeated Nazi party in Germany
 * 6) More immediately the intellectually oppressive political climate of the early 1950's
 * 7) In Fahrenheit 451, owning and reading books is illegal
 * 8) If books are found, they are burned and their owner is arrested
 * 9) If the owner refuses to abandon the books he or she often dies, burning along with them
 * 10) Knowledge and ignorance are through out the book
 * 11) Paradoxes between life and death
 * 12) Communisum also called the Red Scare
 * 13) Technology also has a major theme in the book to create ways to burn books
 * 14) Paradoxes shows up in the book through death
 * 15) Animal Imagery is a theme throuhg out the book and is how the books start off
 * 16) There was a law that made you have the Mein Kamph(writtten by hilter)
 * 17) Ceneorship is the main theme because it shows what the governments hides and doesnt want us to do
 * 18) **Guy Montag-** Is a 30 year old fireman who makes his living by burning books and the houses where they are illegally kept
 * 19) **Captain Beatty-** Runs the fire house where Montag works
 * 20) **Clarisse McClellan-** Clarisse is a wide-eyed 17 year old girl to whom Montag is drawn

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Section 2 notes
 * 1) 1947–1953 when written
 * 2) 1953 published
 * 3) A Dystopian novel
 * 4) Montag’s escape from the Mechanical Hound the bombing of the city is climax
 * 5) Lierary period is modern american
 * 6) The nazi regime did book burning as a idenity cleansing
 * 7) Ray Douglas Bradbury author
 * 8) Ray Bradbury pen author
 * 9) Date of Birth August 22, 1920
 * 10) Waukegan, Illinois, United States where he was born
 * 11) Author of science fiction and fantasy
 * 12) Graduated from high school chose not to go to college.
 * 13) The soviet union main tactic was to scare the american people
 * 14) Starting to seriously getting into writting science fiction and fantasy
 * 15) First book, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947
 * 16) Produced over five hundred short stories, plays, novels, and poems, and screenplays and teleplays
 * 17) Bradbury’s stories have been reworked into film, television, and radio
 * 18) Fahrenheit 451 his best work
 * 19) The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes are some other of his samour books
 * 20) In 2000 he received the National Book Award

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Section 3 of notes
 * 1) 451 degrees Fahrenheit the temperature paper catches fire and burns
 * 2) Burning Bright from William Blake's poem, "The Tiger"
 * 3) Cacophony variety of harsh sounds heard all at once
 * 4) Clariss a name derived from the Latin word for brightest
 * 5) Dentifric any preparation for teeth cleaning
 * 6) Guy Montag his first name refers to Guy Fawks, a man who plotted to blow up British Parliament in 1605. Montag a trademark of mead makes stationary and furnaces.
 * 7) Icarus son of Daedalus in Greek mythology. He flew too close to the sun and his wings made of wax melted, sending him plummeting to his death.
 * 8) Infinitely lacking limits or bounds, specifically regarding time.
 * 9) November 4 historically the eve of Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot to burn the British Parliament
 * 10) Phoenix in Egyptian mythology a bird that, after a long life, sets itself on fire
 * 11) Pratfall slang for falling on one's rear end
 * 12) Proboscis A tubular organ used for smell and sense
 * 13) Salamander amphibian in mythology salamanders are said to live through fire without burning.
 * 14) Theremin an instrument sound is controlled by moving the air between two antennae
 * 15) Trench mouth an infectious disease in the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat.
 * 16) V-2 Rocket the first long-range liquid fueled missile carrying one ton of explosives
 * 17) Anything communist was banned
 * 18) Any book, song anything by jew = banned
 * 19) Only things Hilter allowed were allowed to be sold and used
 * 20) Firemen a worker who puts out fire but in this book starts the burnings

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Section 4 notes
 * 1) New house cost $8,450.00
 * 2) Average income per year was $3,210.00
 * 3) Gallon of gas was 18 cents
 * 4) Average cost of new car was $1,510.00
 * 5) Soviet dominated East and the capitalist West
 * 6) The cold war became a grim reality
 * 7) Technology for a Nuclear holocaust
 * 8) West Germany enjoyed a growth which exceeded any expectations at the end of the war
 * 9) Old colonial empires would be forced to allow allow countries their independence
 * 10) Japan saw massive economic growth
 * 11) Creation of the new State of Israel
 * 12) Break up of the British Empire
 * 13) Time of great affluence after the depression years
 * 14) World Wars consumerism took off in a big way which in turn created jobs
 * 15) Wealth and a circle of growth came from WW endings
 * 16) Black men were able to have power military jobs
 * 17) People said that blacks had fought for this country and should be treated as equals
 * 18) Congress passed many bills and laws that allowed blacks to be equals and started to get ride of Jim Crow Laws
 * 19) Primary military forces never collide directly there was a strage for nuclar warfar and first to the moon
 * 20) Radio was the major way to get information to the public

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