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FAHRENHEIT 451

FAHRENHEIT 451. BY RAY BRADBURY ADRIAN JEFFERSON Jr. Author . RAY BRADBURY Born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920 Na med after actor Douglas fairbanks Cu rrently known as an author, essayist, playw right, screenwriter, lecturer, poet and visionary.

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FAHRENHEIT 451

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  1. FAHRENHEIT 451 BY RAY BRADBURY ADRIAN JEFFERSON Jr

  2. Author • RAY BRADBURY • Born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920 • Named after actor Douglas fairbanks • Currently known as an author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, lecturer, poet and visionary. • Also known as one of America’s geniuses

  3. PROTAGONIST • GUY MONTAG • Starts out as a fire man who only burns books. In the book its said that in the future will lose the right to read. • He later in the book gets a change of heart fights for the right to read along with the help of his good friends.

  4. Antagonist • BEATTY • BEATTY is the captin of the firing crew he has choices for good but still chooses to strive for evil • Although he is an educated reader he as issues the art of reading and chooses to burn books

  5. FAVORITE • CLARISSE McCLELLAN • She my favorite because her character out of all the others seems to the most truthful • Clarisse McClellan influences Guy Montag to open his eyes and experience the joy of reading

  6. MOST HATED • MILDRED MONTAG • Can’t stand the name Mildred • She is dead in the mind and I can’t stand a slothful person

  7. EXPOSISION • The beginning of the book introduces the first two characters Guy and Clarisse. • Tells how they meet outside the fire station on the side walk • Starts out describing how the fire burning process makes Guy feel and what he goes through while doing it.

  8. RISING ACTION • GUY MONTAG’S wife try’s to commit suicide • They get a call of a women hiding books. They are called just burn the books but the women chooses to be burned alive with her books .

  9. CLIMAX • The climax of the book is when Clarisse gets hit by a speeding car and loses her life. • This allows Guy to change his emotions towards books and look in to reading

  10. FALLING ACTION • Beaty try’s to get him guy pulls a fast one and burns one of his own fireman. • They send dogs after him to catch him

  11. RESOLUTION • Guy Montag has to escape the tracking dogs that were cent to find descising his cent. • He later joins a resitence group who are undercover readers

  12. TIME PERIOD • The time period takes place in the future of American society about 20 years or more.

  13. PLACE • The story takes place in north America

  14. THEMES • RIGHT TO READ

  15. RATING • FAHRENHEIT 451

  16. ISSUE • Media Abuse • My social issue would have to be the abuse of television and other electronics • You may say to your self how can TV and electronics be abusive . • Majority of young people ages 8-18 spend 7 1/2 hours watching TV or on some electronic device, not counting cell phones and ipods.

  17. Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDBiqUWRtMo

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