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turbostangs
turbostangs
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High School - 11th Grade

Summarize Beatty's explanation of how the need for firemen arose?

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Posted by turbostangs on Monday March 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM and tagged with beatty, characters, fahrenheit 451.

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  1. writergal06
    writergal06 Teacher

    Beatty explains that conflicts and confusion kept arising within society, causing society to break into factions and groups, dividing against themselves. Books that promoted those philosophies that caused dissensions began to be burned, in order to unity society. In Beatty's mind, its the government's way of making everyone equal, uniform, the same. Books promoted individual thought, which promotes individuality, which is against equality. The firemen were made to unite the communities by eliminating independent thoughts.

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    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/summary

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    Posted by writergal06 on Monday March 30, 2009 at 7:02 AM


  2. marilynn07 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

    Many different segments of society were offended by ideas that were in print. Authors attempted to mollify those various segments to the point that most all printed matter ended up being much the same. After a while, a decision was made simply to burn books.

    Beatty explains that society needs the firemen to protect them from unhappiness and discontent caused from independent thought and reading contradictory ideas found in books.

    Beatty's explanation twists history to allude that even Benjamin Franlkin burned books.

    By eliminating free thought, books, and alone time, society is more ordered and controlled. Everyone is equal because they are made equal by the social constraints that are in place.

     

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    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/characters
    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/fahrenheit-451/themes

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    Posted by marilynn07 on Monday March 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM