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Themes - Coggle Diagram
Themes
Impacts of Censorship
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Beatty
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"White people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. Coloured people don't like Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it." (57)
"If you don't want a man to be unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry about; give him one. Better yet, give him none." (58)
Clarisse
"Strange. I heard that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and we needed firemen to stop the flames." (6)
"People don't talk about anything... they all say the same things and no one says anything different from anybody" (28)
To Montag: "You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think about what I've asked you." (6)
Montag
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"Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." (6)
He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this before, and it made him quite irritable (7)
"Is it because we're having so much fun that we've forgotten about the rest of the world?... Do you know why? I don't, that's sure!" (69-70)
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Mrs Bowles, Mrs Phelps
"Poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying, and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!" (97)
Importance of books
Faber
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Importance of books
"The magic is in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe into one garment for us" (79)
"They show the pores in the face of life. Comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless" (79)
"I don't talk things sir, I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive." (71)
Beatty
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"you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority" (102)
Montag
In response to unanswered questions: "Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe books can get us half out of the cave. They might just stop us from making the same damn mistakes!" (70)
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