Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury: Literary Analysis

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One common theme found in part 2 of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is humanities lose in intelligence. With the society that is in the book, there are no books to stop people from being imaginative and thinking out of the box. Also the books are burned to stop people from having opinions that could hurt other people’s opinions. While Montage is talking to Faber and trying to convince into his plan of making the world more aware of the possibilities that could come if they were allowed to read books. During this discussion, Faber explains that “So few people want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily” (87). He is expressing that people have become so brainwashed of the past-culture that they are scared to
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