Fahrenheit451
In the book, Guy Montag, the main character, begins to question the things around him when he meets a local girl. He quickly feels comfortable with her and they begin to have discussions about mundane things that seem to open up Montag’s eyes. Then one day, the girl is gone. In a short few weeks, he had become dependant on the girl’s company. Once she is gone, he finds himself changed by having known her. When he goes to work on one of the following days, there is a fire alarm. He and the other fireman rush to answer the call, and discover an old woman in a house with books and magazines in her attic. They quickly gather the illegal materials together, and douse them in kerosene. They are trying to coax the “crazy” woman out of the house, when she brings out a match. Guy stays and tried to talk her out of it, but is unsuccessful. This experience haunts him all night and into the next day. He doesn’t go to work the next day, and his boss, Beatty, knows why. I think that this “crazy” woman is a representation of the beliefs of the Salem witch trials. People all around them were calling them devil worshipers and telling them that they were going to hell. Even though they knew it would be certain death, as did the “
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Guy Montag, Montag Faber, Writers Guild, Captain Beatty, Senator McCarthy, Ray Bradbury, crazy woman, , todays society, woman house, faber tells, salem witch, american history, people passed,
Approximate Word count = 1050
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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