Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

Summing the things up

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So far we've gone through "Fahrenheit 451", and here are the results (some extracts from my work for prof. Volkova, rated "good". Meh.):

Intonation, tone, mood, atmosphere, ethos (moral, psychological climate)

The whole atmosphere of the book is dystopian: totalitarian society’s pressure causes great depression of individuals, who are unable to fight against the ideal system of total control. In this individual-killing world a number of rebels appear one-by-one: a mysterious young girl Clarisse, then a self-sacrificing woman who decides to die with the burning books, later Montag himself and professor Faber, etc.

As for psychological climate, it generally reflects the society status: everyone stopped reading books many years ago and now prefers listening to the radio and watching television on wall-size TV sets. People have lost their unique way of thinking; they are now unable to have meaningful conversations. Any single free thought – and they’ll be punished by the government, any book – and their houses will be burned to ashes. The issues which existed back in 20th century – political correctness, censorship, tendency to reduce the amount of information by reading shortened versions of books – all of them have reached an extremely exaggerated state, during which the book readers become outlaws, and free thinkers are punished.

Problems, cultural issues

From my point of view, the main issues concerned in this book are the following:

The issue of progress. Bradbury demonstrates how the development of information technology and technological progress in general can eventually affect our life in a negative way, and how things which were invented to make the life of a human being easier and more relaxed, can lead to dangerous and almost absurd simplification (e.g. people stop reading books and are punished if they do read).

The issue of rebellion. There is a certain “System” which at first seems to be very prosperous, but is in fact very conservative: it prevents development and is afraid of any new ideas. As the years pass, this System enters the state of stagnation at which no further improvement can be achieved at all. Now everything is in hand of the Rebels – the intellectual minority who understand the need to take actions – and they start preparing for changes. Of course, the System tries to stop them, and nobody knows who’ll win in each particular situation (in Fahrenheit 451, for example, we don’t see the end of this battle). Two endings are possible – either the System will destroy the Rebels and continue fading away (perhaps with more Rebels to come), or the Rebels will win and establish their own System. This never-ending cycle will repeat again and again: there’ll always be unsatisfied ones and the System will always be trying to defend itself. The only difference is the current age and methods, but the participants of this eternal fight will remain basically the same.

The issue of censure and political correctness. Throughout the whole story we feel the pressure of censure: numerous laws, regulations and forbidden actions reduce the importance of an individual to being a self-secluded, passive person, a “vegetable”, who is obliged to spend his life in vain. This is the result of excessive censure.
Bradbury also shows that the respect of minority can lead to confusion of majority – this is what political correctness can become if we don’t pay attention to how the issues are raised and treated.

The reappraisal of values. During the development of the story the main character Guy Montag gradually comes to realize that he is different from other “screws” in the mechanism, the System. He feels ashamed and overwhelmed at first, but later finds strength to face the difficulties and accept his “new” personality which has opened to him so suddenly. This is an important step in shaping the character of a Rebel and should be taken into account during the analysis of his actions.

Please note:
This was written in January, 2008, and my opinion on some of the issues has changed since that.
But anyway, here it is.

Key facts

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full title · Fahrenheit 451
author · Ray Bradbury
type of work · Novel
genre · Science fiction
language · English
time and place written · 1950–1953, Los Angeles, California
date of first publication · 1953 (a shorter version entitled “The Fireman” published 1951 in Galaxy Science Fiction)
publisher · Ballantine Books
narrator · Third-person, limited omniscient. Follows Montag’s point of view, often articulating his interior monologues
climax · Montag’s murder of Beatty
protagonist · Montag
antagonist · Beatty, but also society in general
setting (time) · Sometime in the twenty-first century; there have been two atomic wars since 1990
setting (place) · In and around an unspecified city
point of view · Montag’s
falling action · Montag’s trip out of the city into the country
tense · Past, with occasional transitions into present tense during Montag’s interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness passages
foreshadowing · Montag’s uncanny feelings of prescience; early descriptions of the Mechanical Hound; Montag’s nervous glances toward the ventilator shaft where he has hidden his books; discussion of the qualities of fire
tone · Foreboding and menacing, disoriented, poetic, bitterly satirical
themes · Censorship, knowledge versus ignorance
motifs · Paradoxes, animals and nature, religion, television and radio
symbols · Fire, blood, the Electric-Eyed Snake, the hearth, the salamander, the phoenix, the sieve and the sand, Denham’s Dentifrice, the dandelion, mirrors

Hapy New Year!

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We continue our blog devoted to one of the best science fiction works by Ray Bradbury. Here's a short quiz on 'Fahrenheit 451' http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/quiz/fahrenheit/1/.

7 quotes from 'Fahrenheit 451'

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Quote 1: "It is a pleasure to burn. It is special to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed."
Quote 2: "'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.'"
Quote 3: "Nobody listens any more. . . . I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense."
Quote 4: "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."
Quote 5: "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!"
Quote 6: "No one has time any more for anyone else."
Quote 7: "Fahrenheit four-five-one is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and starts to burn"

An interesting fact

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While browsing the Internet, I found a Wiki page which had a rather strange question: Why did Bradbury name the main character in his "Fahrenheit 451" Guy Montag?

One of the users gave this answer: It may have been a humorous literary allusion to "Girl Friday," since "Montag" means "Monday" in German.

SOURCE: WikiAnswers

How funny. German here again.

:)

Cheers, George

Ray Bradbury's interview in Sci-Fi weekly

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March 26, 2007

Ray Bradbury shares secrets of his stories still to come, and explains why there are really two Ray Bradburys

By Michael McCarty

Ray Bradbury is a legend in speculative fiction, with good reason—his books have withstood the test of time and are just as popular now as when first written.
The science fiction, fantasy and horror genres have all embraced his works, claiming him as their own. The 86-year-old author has written more than 35 books. His works include such classics as The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The October Country and Fahrenheit 451.
He adapted 65 of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater and won an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree." In 2000, Bradbury was honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Among his recent books are the novels From the Dust Returned and Farewell Summer (William Morrow), the short-story collection The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (Gauntlet Press) and Bradbury Speaks (William Morrow), a collection of essays on the past, the future and everything in between. In 2007, Gauntlet Press will be releasing two new books: Match To Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 and Somewhere a Band Is Playing. Bradbury lives in Los Angeles, and his Web site is http://www.raybradbury.com/.

What is the inspiration for the short story "The Crowd"?
Bradbury: "The Crowd" is a true story in many ways, because when I was 15 years old, I used to hang out down around Vermont and Washington Boulevard here in Los Angeles, near a graveyard. One night, when I was visiting a friend, I heard a car crash outside. We ran out and discovered there was this accident on the street in which five people dropped dead right in front of us. They were staggering around from the wreck, and they fell down and died. Within moments, a crowd gathered from nowhere, which was especially strange, because most of the surroundings were the graveyard. There was nowhere for the crowd to come from. The shock of that terrible event stayed with me for years. When I was in my 20s, I wrote it down and turned it into "The Crowd," which I sold to Weird Tales for 15 dollars. And that is how "The Crowd" occurred.

What can you tell us about your upcoming Gauntlet Press book Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451, which is going to be published this year?
Bradbury: My friends at Gauntlet had come to me and told me I had written a lot of short stories before Fahrenheit 451 that pointed in that direction. I didn't think of it, but that is part of my subconscious; all these things are lodged between my ears and in my ganglion.
I wrote a story about a vampire coming out of the grave called "Pillar of Fire," which was in the magazine Planet Stories when I was in my early 20s. It had to do a lot with book burning. The character in the short story takes an attitude toward the people who had burned his and his friend's books.
And then I wrote a short story called "Usher Two," about a man who hates intellectuals, doesn't like fantasy books and hates the history of Edgar Allan Poe and similar authors. So he gets them together and burns them in "Usher Two." It has been a very popular story of mine. I did it as a play and as a film for my Ray Bradbury television series [The Ray Bradbury Theater]. People love that, because the lead character attacks the intellectuals who hate books, who hate Edgar Allan Poe and all the great writers in fantasy. I took arms against them, so you see I was preparing for Fahrenheit 451 without knowing it. The new book that will come out this year, Match to Flame, will be all about my unconsciously leading the way to Fahrenheit 451, which I wrote in the autumn of 1950. I wrote it in nine days at the library of UCLA. Down in the basement, I found a typing room where I could rent a typewriter for 10 cents a half-hour. I moved in with a bag of dimes and I spent $9.80, and nine days later I finished Fahrenheit 451 in its first version, which is 25,000 words.
Two years later, Ballantine Books came to me and said, "We love your story The Firemen [the original title]. If you find a new title for it and add words to it, we'll publish it." So I sat down, wrote an additional 25,000 words and changed the title from The Firemen to Fahrenheit 451.

Farewell Summer is your first sequel to a novel. You have written sequels to your short stories in the past, but never a novel. Why did you decide to write a sequel to Dandelion Wine?
Bradbury: Farewell Summer is Dandelion Wine: Part Two. They were both written at the same time, 55 years ago. Therefore, I didn't have to think about it. I saved the second half and published it 55 years later. It's a sequel, but I didn't have to think about it because it was part of the original story and the publishers decided that Dandelion Wine was too long, so they wanted me to cut it in half, which I did. I published the first half as Dandelion Wine, and Dandelion Wine: Part Two was called Farewell Summer.

In Farewell Summer there is an age-old conflict: the young against the elderly in Green Town. Whose side do you sympathize with the most?
Bradbury: Both sides, because I am both of them. All the characters in the book are me. Douglas [Spaulding] is me as a youth, the Colonel [Calvin C. Quartermain] and all of his friends are me when I am old. So I am not on either side; I am on both sides, and that is what the whole book is about.

Themes that used to be the driving force of much science fiction of the Golden Age, like interstellar travel, seem to have lost some of their appeal. Agree or disagree?
Bradbury: I agree, because they haven't had any appeal to me. If you look at all my science-fiction stories, you won't find anything there about interstellar travel. I wrote about other things, human things. People, real people moving on to create civilization on Mars [The Martian Chronicles]. Mars isn't about interstellar travel, and all my other fantasy and science fiction in The Illustrated Man or Golden Apples of the Sun are about dinosaurs, things like that, instead of interstellar travel.

What do you think are the main preoccupations with science fiction reflected today?
Bradbury: In my case, I hope they are interested in my stories and hopes for the future and going back to the moon and gathering our energies together and moving on out to Mars. We should have never left there, and if I can encourage people to back the government to build the rockets to go back to the moon, I hope to do that. And then, sometime in about 30 years, we'll move on to Mars. After Mars, we'll move out to the other planets moving around other suns, like Alpha Centauri. That gives us a chance to be immortal. We can't stay on Earth, because Earth isn't going to last forever, but we (mankind) want to last forever. Therefore, space travel is very important and there isn't enough of that being written about in science fiction today. I hope my fellow writers will write about that more often.
I will be doing a story, sometime in the future, about an entire church of priests who go out into the universe in their search for God, not realizing that God is buried in their hearts. You don't search for it [God] in other places. It is in your breast, in your psyche and in your soul—I hope to work on that more and publish it in about two years.

What is your favorite Universal Picture monster movie? And why?
Bradbury: I have several. I was 3 years old when I saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I figured on growing up and becoming a hunchback [laughs]. I saw Lon Chaney's He Who Gets Slapped a year later, and I decided I'd like to be a clown. A year after that I saw The Phantom of the Opera. I fell in love with the Phantom, Lon Chaney, even further. All of Lon Chaney's early films became my favorite monster movies, because he was brilliant. There was no one in the history of films like him, before or since.

You've written in an astounding variety of genres, yet you are renowned for your science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Bradbury: I've only written one science-fiction book; that is Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasies and horror.

What is it that science fiction and horror do that mainstream literature can't do?
Bradbury: Science fiction and horror have to do with our dreams and our fears and our hopes, which you don't find in one hell of a lot of other literature. I love writers like Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck. They are not in the same business as I am, of dreaming and fearing and reacting to life and doing something about it. Science fiction and horror and fantasy provide what we all need: something to speak for our hopes, our dreams and our terrors.

Last question, what is the most perfect Ray Bradbury book?
Bradbury: All my books are perfect. Why? Because I wrote them with fun and love. Each one is a perfection, or I wouldn't have sent them out. I am very proud of knowing me. I live in the body with Ray Bradbury. There are two of me, the one that writes and the one who watches him write. I take credit for what Ray Bradbury does. I am not him, and he is not me. There are two of me here; the one that writes and the one that watches.

SOURCE: Sci-Fi Weekly

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw15376.html

The representatives of the people of the future. Who are they?

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Guy Montag is the protagonist and fireman (see above) whose metamorphosis is illustrated throughout the book and who presents the dystopia through the eyes of a loyal worker to it, a man in conflict about it, and one resolved to be free of it. Bradbury notes in his afterword that he noticed, after the book was published, that Montag is the name of a paper company. Ironically, in the years after the book was published a company called Montaug (pronounced the same way as the character's name) began manufacturing ovens although no link to the book is known.

Faber is the former English professor who represents those who know what is being done is wrong, but are too fearful to act. Bradbury notes in his coda that Faber is part of the name of a German manufacturer of pencils, Faber-Castell.

Mildred Montag is Montag's wife, who tries to hide her own emptiness and fear of questioning her surroundings or herself with meaningless chatter and a constant barrage of television. She constantly tries to reach the glorified state of happiness, but is inwardly miserable. Mildred even makes an attempt at suicide early on in the book by overdosing on sleeping pills. She is used symbolically as the opposite of Clarisse McClellan. She is known as Linda Montag in the 1966 film.

Clarisse McClellan displays every trait Mildred does not. She is outgoing, naturally cheerful, unorthodox, and intuitive. She serves as the wake-up call for Guy Montag, by posing the question “why?” to him. She is unpopular among peers, and disliked by teachers for (as she puts it) asking why instead of how, and focusing on nature rather than technology. Montag always regards her as odd until she goes missing; the book gives no definitive explanation. But it is said that Captain Beatty and Mildred know that Clarisse has been killed by a car. Her behavior is similar to that of Leonard Mead from Bradbury's short story The Pedestrian. Her uncle, who presumably taught her to be like this, may be an allusion to that short story, as he was once arrested for being a pedestrian.

Captain Beatty is Montag's boss and the fire chief. Once an avid reader himself, he is disgusted with the idea of books and detests how they all contradict and refute each other. In a scene written years later by Bradbury for the Fahrenheit 451 play, he invites Guy to his house where he shows him walls of books which he leaves to molder on their shelves. He tries to entice Guy back into the book-burning business, but is burnt alive by Montag when he underestimates Montag's resolve. Guy later realizes that Beatty might have wanted to die and provoked Guy until he did it. He is the symbolic opposite of Granger.
Granger is the leader of a group of wandering intellectual exiles, who memorize books so they will be saved. Where Beatty destroys, he preserves; where Beatty uses fire for the purpose of burning, he uses it for the purpose of warming. His acceptance of Montag is considered the final step in Montag's metamorphosis, from embracing Beatty's ultimate value (happiness and complacency), to embracing his value (love of knowledge).
Mechanical Hound The mechanical hound exists in the original book but not in the film. It is an emotionless, mechanical killing machine that can be programmed to seek out and destroy free thinkers, hunting them down by scent; the hound is blind to anything but the destruction for which it is programmed. It has a retractible needle in a sheath on its snout which injects lethal amounts of morphine or procaine. Bradbury notes in his afterword that the hound is "my robot clone of A. Conan Doyle's great Baskerville beast," referring to the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Mildred's friends (Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps) Mildred's friends represent the average citizens in the numbed society that is described throughout the novel. They are examples of the people in this society who are not happy, but do not think they are unhappy. When they are introduced to literature, which symbolizes the pain and joy that has been censored from them, Mrs. Phelps is overwhelmed by the rush of emotion that she has not felt before.

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Fahrenheit 451 the Movie

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'Fahrenheit 451' the movie will be released in 2009! Yes, it's not soon, but, to my mind, it's worth waiting for.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360556/

Ray Bradbury's Biography

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by Chris Jepsen & Richard Johnston

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Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920.

He was the third son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg
Bradbury. They gave him the middle name "Douglas," after the actor,
Douglas Fairbanks.

He never lived up to his namesake's reputation for swashbuckling adventure on the
high seas. Instead, Bradbury's great adventures would take place behind a
typewriter, in the realm of imagination. Today, as an author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter,
lecturer, poet and visionary, Ray Bradbury is known as one of America's
greatest creative geniuses.

Bradbury's early childhood in Waukegan was characterized by his loving extended family.
These formative years provided the foundations for both the author and his stories. In
Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes "Greentown,"
Illinois. Greentown is a symbol of safety and home, and often provides a
contrasting backdrop to tales of fantasy or menace. In Greentown, Bradbury's
favorite uncle sprouts wings, traveling carnivals conceal supernatural powers, and
his grandparents provide room and board to Charles Dickens.

Between 1926 and 1933, the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona. In
1931, young Ray began writing his own stories on butcher paper.

In 1934, the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
As a teenager, Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot
celebrities. He befriended other talented and creative people, like special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen and radio star George
Burns.

In fact, it was Burns who gave Bradbury his first pay as a writer -- for contributing a joke to the Burns & Allen Show.

Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School. He was active in the drama club and planned to
become an actor.

However, two of his teachers recognized a greater talent in Bradbury, and encouraged his development
as a writer. Snow Longley Housh taught him about poetry and Jeannet Johnson
taught him to write short stories. Over 60 years later, Bradbury's work bears
the indelible impressions left by these two women.

As his high school years progressed, Bradbury grew serious about becoming a writer.
Outside of class, he contributed to fan publications and joined the Los Angeles
Science Fiction League. At school, he improved his grades and joined the Poetry
Club.

Bradbury's formal education ended with his high
school graduation in 1938. However, he continued to educate
himself. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners all day, but spent his
nights in the library. The hours between newspaper editions were spent at his
typewriter.

His first published
short story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in
Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury published four issues of his own fan magazine,
Futuria Fantasia, writing much of the content himself.
His first paid publication, a short story titled "Pendulum," appeared in
Super Science Stories in 1941.

As he honed his writing skills, Bradbury often looked to established writers for
guidance. During those early years, his mentors included Henry Kuttner, Leigh
Brackett, Robert Heinlein and Henry Hasse.

At last, in 1942, Bradbury wrote "The Lake" -- the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style.
The following year, he gave up selling newspapers and began to write
full-time. In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for
Best American Short Stories. That same year, Bradbury traveled
through Mexico to collect Indian masks for the Los Angeles County Museum.

In 1946,
he met his future wife, Marguerite "Maggie" McClure. A graduate
of George Washington High School (1941) and UCLA, Maggie was working as a clerk in a
book shop when they met.

Ray and Maggie were married in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal in Los
Angeles on September 27, 1947. Ray Harryhausen served as the best man.

That same year also marked the publication of
Bradbury's first collection of short stories, entitled Dark Carnival.

The first of the Bradbury's
four daughters, Susan, was born in 1949. Susan's sisters, Ramona, Bettina and
Alexandra were born in 1951, 1955 and 1958, respectively.

Bradbury's reputation as a leading science fiction writer was finally established with the publication of
The Martian Chronicles
in 1950. The book describes man's attempt to colonize
Mars, the effects of colonization on the Martians, and the colonists' reaction
to a massive nuclear war on Earth.

As much a work of social criticism as of science fiction,
The Martian Chronicles reflects America's anxieties in the early 1950's: the
threat of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and
the fear of foreign political powers.

Another of Bradbury's best-known works, Fahrenheit 451, was released in 1953.
It is set in a future in which a totalitarian government has banned the written word.
Montag enjoys his job as a professional book-burner. But he begins to question
his duties the when he learns of a time when books were legal and people did not
live in fear. Montag begins stealing books marked for destruction and meets a
professor who agrees to educate him. When his pilfering is discovered, he must
run for his life.

Bradbury's work has won innumerable honors and awards, including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award (1954), the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for Best Space Article in an American Magazine (1967), the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His work was also included in the Best American Short Stories collections for 1946, 1948 and 1952.

Perhaps Bradbury's most unusual honor came from the Apollo astronaut who named Dandelion Crater after Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine.

Bradbury's lifetime love of cinema fuelled his involvement in many Hollywood productions, including The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (a version of his story, "The Fog Horn"), Something Wicked This Way Comes (based on his novel,) and director John Huston's version of Moby Dick. His animated film about the history of flight, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, was nominated for an academy award.

Over the decades, there have also been many attempts to adapt Bradbury's stories for television.
Commendable examples include episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and Bradbury's Emmy-winning teleplay for The Halloween Tree.

But not all adaptations were so successful. For instance, Bradbury was seriously
disappointed with a Martian Chronicles network miniseries, broadcast in
1979.

Looking for more creative control, Bradbury turned to the relative freedom of cable
television and developed his own series. Ray Bradbury Theater ran from 1986 until 1992 and allowed the author to produce televised versions of his own stories.

Even while working on TV series, novels, short stories, screenplays and radio dramas,
Bradbury continues to publish collections of his plays, poems and
essays.

What does he do for an encore, you ask?

Beyond his literary contributions, Bradbury also serves as an "idea consultant"
for various civic, educational and entertainment projects. He provided the
concept and script for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's
Fair and contributed to Disney's Spaceship Earth at EPCOT and the Orbitron
at the Disneyland parks in Paris and Anaheim.

As
a creative consultant to the Jon Jerde Partnership, he also helped create
trend-setting shopping/entertainment plazas, including the Glendale Galleria in Los Angeles and Horton Plaza in San Diego. These innovative malls (and their many imitators) reflect Bradbury's
vision of a "small-town plaza" tailored to the urban environment.

Today, Ray and Maggie Bradbury continue to live in Los Angeles. They have eight
grandchildren and four cats.

Ray Bradbury still writes daily and occasionally lectures. At an age when most men
rest on their laurels, Bradbury remains a dynamic storyteller and contributor of
"obvious answers to impossible futures.".

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Why we've chosen this topic

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I read this book four years ago for the first time, and Ray Bradbury has been one of my favorite writers ever since. We think that the author touches upon very serious matters in this book. Every day by day we see the world becoming just like in his novels. They are sort of prophetic. We think that this is a true masterpiece, something realy worth reading. So, we've decided to share our point of view with other students.

Links collection

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"Fahrenheit 451"'s Wikipedia entry: click here
An article on how the book is often misinterpreted: click here
Some extracts from the novel analysis: click here
A site dedicated to "Fahrenheit 451": click here
Some information on a screen version of "Fahrenheit 451" created in 1966: click here
A quiz game which tests how you know the story, characters, etc.: click here
More to come.
George.

First post!11 ZOMG

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Just to make sure this thang workz.