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WARM-UP. On your own sheet of paper, write a theme of Fahrenheit 451 . Find a quote or brief passage from the book that fits with the theme you chose, and write it on your paper as well. The 4-1-1 on 451. What is a THEME?. WHAT WE’RE LEAVING BEHIND.

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WARM-UP

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  1. WARM-UP • On your own sheet of paper, write a theme of Fahrenheit 451. • Find a quote or brief passage from the book that fits with the theme you chose, and write it on your paper as well.

  2. The 4-1-1 on 451

  3. What is a THEME?

  4. WHAT WE’RE LEAVING BEHIND “Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It’s like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time—did I tell you?—for being a pedestrian. Oh, we’re most peculiar.” ~Clarisse McClellan, F451 (p. 9)

  5. SOCIAL/ ANTI-SOCIAL: WHO GETS TO DECIDE? “The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.” ~Clarisse McClellan, F451 (p. 22) (*see also pp. 28-29)

  6. “If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” ~Henry David Thoreau, “Life without Principle”

  7. THE MECHANIZATION/ INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SOCIETY “And I do all the shopping and housecleaning by hand.” ~CM, F451 (p. 29)

  8. THOUGHT CONTROL “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin.” ~from The Brief History of the First Firemen of America, F451 (p. 33)

  9. HERETICS & MARTYRS “‘Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.’” ~the lady in the burning house, F451 (p. 35) (*see also p. 39)

  10. MASS MEDIA INFLUENCE “Then—motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass.” ~Captain Beatty, F451 (p. 53)

  11. FUN & HAPPINESS “We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.” ~Captain Beatty, F451 (p. 60) (*see also p. 58)

  12. OTHER THEMES • PC • CONTRADICTION IN BOOKS • CENSORSHIP What else???

  13. FOR HOMEWORK… • Write one theme from F451 on top of your paper. • Find a quote from the book that fits with that theme, and write it down as well. • Under your quote, write a paragraph explaining why it fits with the theme you chose.

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