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When studying Fahrenheit 451, students invariably question the fate of the woman who cherishes her leather-bound books. Like the sixteenth-century martyrs to whom Beatty refers, the woman probably hopes that her rejection of the government’s oppressive system, which includes book burning, will change her world. Beatty quotes the words that Hugh Latimer spoke to Nicholas Ridley as both men were burned at the stake for heresy in 1555. These men wanted to spread the Protestant religion throughout England during the…..

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