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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
About Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451 (Taken from Spark Notes):
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. By the time he was eleven, he had already begun writing his own stories on butcher paper. His family moved fairly frequently, and he graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. He had no further formal education, but he studied on his own at the library and continued to write. For several years, he earned money by selling newspapers on street corners. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," which appeared in 1938 in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writers. In 1942 he was published in Weird Tales, the legendary pulp science-fiction magazine that fostered such luminaries of the genre as H. P. Lovecraft. Bradbury honed his sci-fi sensibility writing for popular television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He also ventured into screenplay writing (he wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1953 film Moby Dick). His book The Martian Chronicles, published in 1950, established his reputation as a leading American writer of science fiction.
In the spring of 1950, while living with his family in a humble home in Venice, California, Bradbury began writing what was to become Fahrenheit 451 on pay-by-the-hour typewriters in the University of California at Los Angeles library basement. He finished the first draft, a shorter version called The Fireman, in just nine days. Following in the futuristic-dustpan tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and became Bradbury's most popular and widely read work of fiction. He produced a stage version of the novel at the Studio Theatre Playhouse in Los Angeles. The seminal French New Wave director François Truffaut also made a critically acclaimed film adaptation in 1967.
Bradbury has received many awards for his writing and has been honored in numerous ways. Most notably, Apollo astronauts named the Dandelion Crater on the moon after his novel Dandelion Wine. In addition to his novels, screenplays, and scripts for television, Bradbury has written two musicals, co-written two "space-age cantatas," collaborated on an Academy Award–nominated animation short called Icarus Montgolfier Wright, and started his own television series, The Ray Bradbury Theatre. Bradbury, who still lives in California, continues to write and is acknowledged as one of the masters of the science-fiction genre. Although he is recognized primarily for his ideas and sometimes denigrated for his writing style (which some find alternately dry and maudlin), Bradbury nonetheless retains his place among important literary science-fiction talents and visionaries like Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick
Apparently this book is based enough to have been banned! (Taken from Wikipedia )
In Apartheid South Africa the book was burned along with thousands of banned publications between the 1950s and 1970s.
In 1987, Fahrenheit 451 was given "third tier" status by the Bay County School Board in Panama City, Florida, under then-superintendent Leonard Hall's new three-tier classification system. Third tier was meant for books to be removed from the classroom for "a lot of vulgarity." After a resident class-action lawsuit, a media stir, and student protests, the school board abandoned their tier-based censorship system and approved all the currently used books.
In 1992, Venado Middle School in Irvine, California, gave copies of Fahrenheit 451 to students with all "obscene" words blacked out. Parents contacted the local media and succeeded in reinstalling the uncensored copies.
In 2006, parents of a 10th-grade high school student in Montgomery County, Texas, demanded the book be banned from their daughter's English class reading list.Their daughter was assigned the book during Banned Books Week, but stopped reading several pages in due to what she considered the offensive language and description of the burning of the Bible. In addition, the parents protested the violence, portrayal of Christians, and depictions of firemen in the novel.
Also apparently the book is not about censorship!
View: https://youtu.be/uG0xKNE5UQA
'HE SAYS THE CULPRIT in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people. Unlike Orwell's 1984, in which the government uses television screens to indoctrinate citizens, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as "walls" and its actors as "family," a truth evident to anyone who has heard a recap of network shows in which a fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends.
(...)
Bradbury imagined a democratic society whose diverse population turns against books: Whites reject Uncle Tom's Cabin and blacks disapprove of Little Black Sambo. He imagined not just political correctness, but a society so diverse that all groups were "minorities." He wrote that at first they condensed the books, stripping out more and more offending passages until ultimately all that remained were footnotes, which hardly anyone read. Only after people stopped reading did the state employ firemen to burn books.'
Book Club Rules and Schedule.
The only rule is to not discuss anything past the chapter we're on without using the spoiler tag!
Week 1. October 6th to October 13. All of Part 1.
Week 2. October 13 to October 20th. All of part 2
Week 3. October 20th to October 27th. All of Part 3.
What happens if I don't meet the reading deadlines?
Nothing really. You can just read up and catch up and add to the discussion anytime you see fit! Even if you don't feel like catching up by reading the missing pages, you can just hop into sparknotes or something and read the chapter summary in there.
Also just because we are on one part of the book doesn't mean you can't comment of previous chapters.
Vote for your favorite cover!
60th Anniversary Kindle Edition.
Arabic Edition.
50th Anniversary Edtion.
Voyager 2004 Edition.
.
Mondadori 1989 Edition.
Persian Edition.
MAG Edition (Polish)
Mass Market 1987 Edition
المؤسسة العربية الحديثة Edition.
Kindle 2020 Edition.
Study resources (I don't know if these are spoiler free or not, so use at your own risk!):
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/fahrenheit-451
https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Fahrenheit-451/
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/fahrenheit-451
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/fahrenheit-451/about-fahrenheit-451
Further Reading:
Conversations with Ray Bradbury: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:168044/datastream/PDF/view
Bradbury Misinterpreted: https://www.laweekly.com/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. https://www.ysk-books.com/app/books/Ray%20Bradbury's%20Fahrenheit%20451%20(Bloom's%20Modern%20Critical%20Interpretations).pdf#page=40
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGINATION IN RAY BRADBURY'S DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, FAHRENHEIT 451 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/dtcfdergisi/issue/66791/1048570
Have a comfy reading!
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
About Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451 (Taken from Spark Notes):
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. By the time he was eleven, he had already begun writing his own stories on butcher paper. His family moved fairly frequently, and he graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. He had no further formal education, but he studied on his own at the library and continued to write. For several years, he earned money by selling newspapers on street corners. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," which appeared in 1938 in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writers. In 1942 he was published in Weird Tales, the legendary pulp science-fiction magazine that fostered such luminaries of the genre as H. P. Lovecraft. Bradbury honed his sci-fi sensibility writing for popular television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He also ventured into screenplay writing (he wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1953 film Moby Dick). His book The Martian Chronicles, published in 1950, established his reputation as a leading American writer of science fiction.
In the spring of 1950, while living with his family in a humble home in Venice, California, Bradbury began writing what was to become Fahrenheit 451 on pay-by-the-hour typewriters in the University of California at Los Angeles library basement. He finished the first draft, a shorter version called The Fireman, in just nine days. Following in the futuristic-dustpan tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and became Bradbury's most popular and widely read work of fiction. He produced a stage version of the novel at the Studio Theatre Playhouse in Los Angeles. The seminal French New Wave director François Truffaut also made a critically acclaimed film adaptation in 1967.
Bradbury has received many awards for his writing and has been honored in numerous ways. Most notably, Apollo astronauts named the Dandelion Crater on the moon after his novel Dandelion Wine. In addition to his novels, screenplays, and scripts for television, Bradbury has written two musicals, co-written two "space-age cantatas," collaborated on an Academy Award–nominated animation short called Icarus Montgolfier Wright, and started his own television series, The Ray Bradbury Theatre. Bradbury, who still lives in California, continues to write and is acknowledged as one of the masters of the science-fiction genre. Although he is recognized primarily for his ideas and sometimes denigrated for his writing style (which some find alternately dry and maudlin), Bradbury nonetheless retains his place among important literary science-fiction talents and visionaries like Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick
Apparently this book is based enough to have been banned! (Taken from Wikipedia )
In Apartheid South Africa the book was burned along with thousands of banned publications between the 1950s and 1970s.
In 1987, Fahrenheit 451 was given "third tier" status by the Bay County School Board in Panama City, Florida, under then-superintendent Leonard Hall's new three-tier classification system. Third tier was meant for books to be removed from the classroom for "a lot of vulgarity." After a resident class-action lawsuit, a media stir, and student protests, the school board abandoned their tier-based censorship system and approved all the currently used books.
In 1992, Venado Middle School in Irvine, California, gave copies of Fahrenheit 451 to students with all "obscene" words blacked out. Parents contacted the local media and succeeded in reinstalling the uncensored copies.
In 2006, parents of a 10th-grade high school student in Montgomery County, Texas, demanded the book be banned from their daughter's English class reading list.Their daughter was assigned the book during Banned Books Week, but stopped reading several pages in due to what she considered the offensive language and description of the burning of the Bible. In addition, the parents protested the violence, portrayal of Christians, and depictions of firemen in the novel.
Also apparently the book is not about censorship!
View: https://youtu.be/uG0xKNE5UQA
'HE SAYS THE CULPRIT in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people. Unlike Orwell's 1984, in which the government uses television screens to indoctrinate citizens, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as "walls" and its actors as "family," a truth evident to anyone who has heard a recap of network shows in which a fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends.
(...)
Bradbury imagined a democratic society whose diverse population turns against books: Whites reject Uncle Tom's Cabin and blacks disapprove of Little Black Sambo. He imagined not just political correctness, but a society so diverse that all groups were "minorities." He wrote that at first they condensed the books, stripping out more and more offending passages until ultimately all that remained were footnotes, which hardly anyone read. Only after people stopped reading did the state employ firemen to burn books.'
Book Club Rules and Schedule.
The only rule is to not discuss anything past the chapter we're on without using the spoiler tag!
Week 1. October 6th to October 13. All of Part 1.
Week 2. October 13 to October 20th. All of part 2
Week 3. October 20th to October 27th. All of Part 3.
What happens if I don't meet the reading deadlines?
Nothing really. You can just read up and catch up and add to the discussion anytime you see fit! Even if you don't feel like catching up by reading the missing pages, you can just hop into sparknotes or something and read the chapter summary in there.
Also just because we are on one part of the book doesn't mean you can't comment of previous chapters.
Vote for your favorite cover!
60th Anniversary Kindle Edition.
Arabic Edition.
50th Anniversary Edtion.
Voyager 2004 Edition.
.
Mondadori 1989 Edition.
Persian Edition.
MAG Edition (Polish)
Mass Market 1987 Edition
المؤسسة العربية الحديثة Edition.
Kindle 2020 Edition.
Study resources (I don't know if these are spoiler free or not, so use at your own risk!):
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/fahrenheit-451
https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Fahrenheit-451/
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/fahrenheit-451
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/fahrenheit-451/about-fahrenheit-451
Further Reading:
Conversations with Ray Bradbury: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:168044/datastream/PDF/view
Bradbury Misinterpreted: https://www.laweekly.com/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. https://www.ysk-books.com/app/books/Ray%20Bradbury's%20Fahrenheit%20451%20(Bloom's%20Modern%20Critical%20Interpretations).pdf#page=40
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGINATION IN RAY BRADBURY'S DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, FAHRENHEIT 451 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/dtcfdergisi/issue/66791/1048570
Have a comfy reading!
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