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Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451. By Sean Foley. Ray Bradbury. Born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois Moved to Los Angeles at age 13 Self taught: never went to college Went to the library everyday after school. Ray Bradbury: Early Life. Started writing at age 13, emulating Edgar Allen Poe

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Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451

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  1. Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451 By Sean Foley

  2. Ray Bradbury

  3. Born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois • Moved to Los Angeles at age 13 • Self taught: never went to college • Went to the library everyday after school Ray Bradbury: Early Life

  4. Started writing at age 13, emulating Edgar Allen Poe • First writing appeared in Mademoiselle • First novel: The Martian Chronicles • Married Marguerite McClure and had four daughters Start of Career

  5. Moralists • Realm of possible • Symbolic way to write of our huge problems • Fiction of ideas Science Fiction

  6. Fahrenheit 451

  7. Written in 1954 • Second novel by Ray Bradbury • Written on public typewriter in UCLA library • Later turned into a film by Francois Truffaut in 1966 General Info

  8. McCarthy Era • Attack on “thought-destroying” force • Comment on defiance of literature for new technologies • Technology causing alienation Ray’s Influences

  9. “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.” • Hitler • Alexandria • Educators in danger • Destruction of knowledge Book Burning

  10. Opposite of Utopia • Often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, etc. • Thought crime Dystopia

  11. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey Books, 1953. Print • Eller, Jonathan R. Becoming Ray Bradbury. USA: Library of Congress, 2011. Print • Aggelis, Steven L. Conversations with Ray Bradbury. USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Print • Bradbury, Ray. “An Interview with Ray Bradbury”. www.neabigread.org. Web. 12 March 2013. • Bradbury, Ray. “The Art of Fiction No. 203”. www.theparisreview.org. Weller, Sam. The Paris Review.Web. 12 March 2013. Sources

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