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Name______________________
Mr. Green
English 101
18 March 2015
Fahrenheit 451 Writing Prompts
Literary Essay ­ Compare “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” to
Fahrenheit 451
.
● Focus your comparison on the philosophical ideas proposed by both piece.
● Be sure to use literary terms whenever applicable and identify literary techniques used. ● Provide cited quotations for support.
● Provide a Works Cited page
● Length must be 1100 words
● Upon request Mr. Green will help you obtain a credible summary of “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” Literary Essay ­
Choose one of the short stories, “A Sound of Thunder” or “Harrison
Bergeron,” and compare/contrast it with
Fahrenheit 451.
● Consider the following aspects of each story: theme, setting, values of each society, and final outcome for characters and society.
● Provide cited quotations for support.
● Provide a Works Cited page
● Length must be 1100 words
● Upon request Mr. Green will help you obtain a copy of one of the short stories for comparison. Creative Non­Fiction Essay
­ One theme in this book is happiness vs. discontentment. Are the people in the
Fahrenheit 451 society happy? What does true happiness look like? Which characters are happy and why? Which characters are unhappy and why? Evaluate the happiness of our own society. Do we suffer from some of the same maladies that infect the
Fahrenheit 451 society?
Then
write a personal narrative in which you discover something about true happiness as it applies to you. Classical Argument Essay ­ Beatty tells Montag that it was the minorities that first began to censor books ( and remember that he’s not specifically talking about racial minorities
). Explain how the minorities began the censorship movement in
Fahrenheit 451 and then analyze our own society. Does our society have similar problems? How so? Are we in danger of becoming like the society in
Fahrenheit 451
? How can we

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