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F451 (Themes (Dystopia (A world thought to be perfect, but in reality…

- - - - "I rarely watch the 'parlor walls; or go to races of Fun Parks. So I've lost of times for crazy thoughts, I guess." (page 7)
    - - Contrast to Mildred
        
        "It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set." (page 4)
        
        " Her face was slender and milk-shite, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity." (page 3)
    - - "Are you happy?" (page 7)
      - "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" (page 6)
    - - Doesn't follow the normative. Spends time outside, has conversations and asks a lot of questions.
  - - - His Death
      - Speech #1
  - - - Unkempt thoughts -----> clear thoughts
        
        "...Denham's Dentrifice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentrifice Dentrifice Dentrifice, on two, one two three, one two, one two three." (page 75)
        
        "A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes, A time to keep silence and a time to speak." (page 158)
    - - Burning the home with the women still inside
      - Meeting Clarisse
        
        The Catalyst (see her branch)
      - Beatty's murder
      - Running away, watching the city burn.
    - - "It was a pleasure to burn." (page 1)
      - "The small motion, the white and red color, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning, it was warming." (page 139)
  - - - Comparison to Clarisse
        
        "It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set." (page 4)
      - Provide a detailed perspective on society
    - - Suicide attempt
      - Ratting Montag out.
- - - - Used as distraction, total immersion, new tool for having "fun".
    - - Used by Mildred as a distraction
  - - - Adults
        
        Distractions with parlor walls and seashells and meaningless conversation.
      - Kids
        
        Adrenaline-provoking activities such as car racing, jumping, running, etc.
        
        School consist of very little thought-provoking subjects.
  - - - To censor books means to not allow the reading of scripture in the form of books. Not signs and other things like that. Anything that has a value in information.
    - - Happiness
      - "We must all be alike. Not born free and equal like the Constitution says, but everyone made equal." (page 55)
- - - - "We never burned right..." (page 113)
        
        "You must remember; burn them or they'll burn you, he thought." (page 117)
      - "So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!
        One of them had to stop burning. The sun wouldn't, certainly. So it looked as if it had to be Montag and the people he had worked with until a few short hours ago." (page 134)
      - "Well, this fire'll last me the rest of my life. God! I've been trying to put it out, in my mind, all night. I'm crazy with trying. " (page 47)
      - "The small motion, the white and red color, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning, it was warming." (page 139)
      - "It was a pleasure to burn." (page 1)
- - - - Mixture of Political and Ideological
        
        Firemen are in control
        
        Books are dangerous. Ignorance is bliss. Abstain from complicated thoughts. All of this equals to happiness, or in this case, what society believes it to be.
    - - Books are censored
        
        Attempt to not develop critical thinking skills