Thursday, January 17, 2013

FAHRENHEIT 451

1) Bradbury says the novel isn't about censorship.

2) The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.

3) The book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature.

4) The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

5) François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

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