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Hey, /lit/.
I'm reading Fahrenheit 451, and I'm trying to figure out how to approach this book. What do you think the author's message is to its audience?

>> No.1258494

They burn books the whole time. Obviously, the message is that literature is worthless and that reading is a waste of time.

>> No.1258513

Hey, /lit/.
Here's my homework question: What is Ray Bradbury's message to his audience?

>> No.1258523

Tell us what your impressions are after reading the book.

>> No.1258524

Guy Montag wants to put it in Clarisse.

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>>1258494

>mfw that wasn't Bradbury's intended message

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>>1258529
>mfw You got trolled hardcore.

>> No.1258552

>>1258494

And by using the novel as his medium to say this, Bradbury is confessing his long-repressed fear that he is irrelevant and completely without talent. Fahrenheit 451 is the complete implosion and collapse of a tortured artist finally accepting his impermanence and ultimately, his failure.

>> No.1258561

Do your own homework you fucking 15 year old.

Also, you should have already read this fucking book, cunt.

>> No.1258566

Bradbury has contradicted himself on this topic multiple times. If this is homework, make something up.

>> No.1258575

You must be a kid. I teach this novel and my students get the theme within the first part of the book. Read it, Bradbury uses this theme across his writing all the time. He's a great writer but not a master of subtlety or anything.