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Orwell’s best-known novel, 1984, is inappropriate reading for most young teens, but Animal Farm is a good read for a freshman class since it raises questions that are similar to those raised in 1984 but without the nightmare vision and sordid content of the other book. Like Fahrenheit 451, both 1984 and Animal Farm are dystopian novels. That is, they depict a decidedly negative, often horrific picture of the world. They warn the reader about the horrors that face…..
In addition to its theme, an initial element in Fahrenheit 451 to discuss is the main characters. At the start of the novel, Guy Montag enjoys destroying mankind’s history. The class needs to feel outraged by his mindlessly burning the literature of the ages. However, his satisfaction with his work is a façade he’s adopted all his life. He meets a seventeen-year-old who makes him realize that he is, in fact, deeply unhappy. Clarisse McClellan represents what teachers dream about—a…..
Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 during the Cold War era and published it in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel, which means that instead of describing an ideal or utopian world like Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, the book depicts a world that is the stuff of nightmares. It describes a futuristic totalitarian state set in an unnamed American city in which televisions in every home instruct the citizens of the state in all they are allowed to know. Utopia, the…..
