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After an awkward exchange between Mildred and Montag over the book hidden under his pillow, Beatty becomes suspicious and casually adds a passing threat before leaving; he says that if a fireman had a book, he would be asked to burn it within the following twenty-four hours.
- Ray Bradbury, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Kurt Vonnegut, William Edgar Stafford, Bernard Malamud, Judi...
- 1953
Oct 24, 2024 · Fahrenheit 451, dystopian novel, first published in 1953, that is regarded as perhaps the greatest work by American author Ray Bradbury and has been praised for its stance against censorship and its defense of literature as necessary both to the humanity of individuals and to civilization.
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Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic American city. In Montags world, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in this society do not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they drive very fast, watch excessive amounts of television o...
Montag encounters a gentle seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocently penetrating questions and her unusual love of people and nature. Over the next few days, Montag experiences a series of disturbing events. First, his wife, Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle ...
Beatty forces Montag to burn the house himself; when he is done, Beatty places him under arrest. When Beatty continues to berate Montag, Montag turns the flamethrower on his superior and proceeds to burn him to ashes. Montag knocks the other firemen unconscious and runs. The Mechanical Hound, a monstrous machine that Beatty has set to attack Montag...
May 21, 2017 · Economic revolution. Using a condom meant negotiating with a partner. The diaphragm and sponge were messy. But the decision to use the pill was a woman's, and it was private and...
Apr 22, 2010 · With the Pill, there was no barrier preventing the union of sperm and egg; all the Pill did, Rock argued, was mimic naturally occurring hormones to extend the safe period, so that sex was...
- Nancy Gibbs
Danny and William decide to humiliate Hazell by poaching all the pheasants in the forest just before the event. As the local doctor, Doc Spencer, has prescribed sleeping pills for William (which the latter refuses to take), Danny comes up with the idea to soak some raisins until they swell, then sew the contents of the pills into the bait.
Dec 1, 2010 · Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the birth control pill, America and the Pill concisely explains the development, evolution, and influence of this revolutionary technology on American culture from the 1950s through the present.
