Extra Credit

3/19/2014

PROMPT
In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 we have read about one possible scenario for the
future. No one really knows how things will be in the future, but at one time or another we all
think about it. What is your vision of the future? What do you think our world will be like 50
years from now?

Your assignment is to describe our world as you believe it will be 50 years from now.

Start your response (1st paragraph) with a few examples of what Bradbury's world looks like. Then (2nd paragraph) explain your prediction and why it will look like that.

Please keep to short quotes ( "...example of using short quotes instead of long one..." ) and don't forget to cite! (Bradbury 24). Paragraphs (8-10 well-developed sentences!!) should be detailed and specific.

Hit "comment" and make sure to follow directions or it won't count!

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Ray Bradbury's

Fahrenheit 451
TYPE OF WORK  · Novel

GENRE  · Science fiction

LANGUAGE  · English

TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN  ·  1950–1953, Los Angeles, California

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION  ·  1953 (a shorter version entitled “The Fireman” was published in 1951 in Galaxy Science Fiction)

PUBLISHER  · Ballantine Books

NARRATOR  · Third-person, limited omniscient; follows Montag’s point of view, often articulating his interior monologues

CLIMAX  · Montag’s murder of Beatty

PROTAGONIST  · Montag

ANTAGONIST  · Beatty, but also society in general

SETTING (TIME) · Sometime in the twenty-fourth century; there have been two atomic wars since 1990

SETTING (PLACE)  · In and around an unspecified city

POINT OF VIEW  · Montag’s

FALLING ACTION  · Montag’s trip out of the city into the country

TENSE  · Past, with occasional transitions into present tense during Montag’s interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness passages

FORESHADOWING  · Montag’s uncanny feelings of prescience; early descriptions of the Mechanical Hound; Montag’s nervous glances toward the ventilator shaft where he has hidden his books; discussion of the qualities of fire

TONE  · Foreboding and menacing, disoriented, poetic, bitterly satirical

THEMES  · Censorship, knowledge versus ignorance

MOTIFS  · Paradoxes, animals and nature, religion, television and radio

SYMBOLS  · Fire, blood, the Electric-Eyed Snake, the hearth, the salamander, the phoenix, the sieve and the sand, Denham’s Dentifrice, the dandelion, mirrors

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