Saturday, April 20, 2013

Fahrenheit 451 Prose Essay Prompts


1.    Analyze Captain Beatty. Is he truly an idealogue in support of censorship or is he hiding an allegiance to freedom of expression? Use 3 specific literary elements examples from the text in your argument.
2.     Fahrenheit 451 is about burning books, why is this book then known as a Classic in English classes? What is the significance? Use 3 literary elements to help your reasoning.
3. Faber discusses three things that are missing from the Fahrenheit 451 society.  These missing things are the reasons why the people in this society don’t want or need books.  Identify and explain the three reasons Faber gives and then analyze our own society to see if we suffer from the same maladies that infect the Fahrenheit 451 society.

 

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