Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury/Dystopian Literature

Internet Scavenger Hunt

NAME: Phillip Hodge
Question

What are the titles of

the three parts of
Fahrenheit 451?

Wikipedia is NOT a legitimate

research site. It is NOT
allowed on this assignment.

You must have at least 4

different websites listed,
but they may be repeated.

DATE: 9/2/16
Answer
1. The Hearth and the
Salamander

Website
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/
explain-how-titles-three-parts-booksignificant-58413

2. The Sieve and the Sand

3. Burning Bright
1. Future fictional Societies

http://www.utopiaanddystopia.com/
dystopia/distopian-elements-andcharacteristic/

2. Time Travel
Name three
characteristics of
Dystopian Literature

Define in simple terms

exactly what a dystopia
is?

A. What is considered
the first dystopian
novel?
B. Who is the author?
What did authors
attempt to express by
using the dystopian
version of science
fiction?
What is a feminist
dystopia?

3. Sense of powerlessness of the

individuals in the face of
oppressive and brutal
government run by totalitarian
dictatorship

Dystopia society in literature is an

oppressive society where things arent
as bright and shiny as they are now. Its
a dark society.

A. The first Dystopian literature

book was Utopia
B. Thomas More was the author

http://www.nthurston.k12.wa.us/cms/
lib/WA01001371/Centricity/Domain/
592/UtopiaandDystopiaCharacteristics
andDefinitions.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samanthashannon/the-evolution-of-dystopia_b_
4114516.html
http://literarydevices.net/dystopia/

Usually authors create these tales to

show imagery of how the future could
possibly be like.
Feminist Dystopia is the inequality of
society or oppression of women is
exaggerated or intensified to highlight
the need to create a contemporary

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/
feministtexts/a/feminist_utopia_
dystopia.htm

society
http://gilc.org/speech/osistudy/censorship/
What is censorship?
Provide an explanation
NOT a definition.
Explain it in your own
words to demonstrate
comprehension.

A. Name one place

that Fahrenheit
451 was censored.
B. Explain the reason
behind the
censorship.

Censorship is examining and processing

things in movies, shows, and books that
dont look right to you.
Ex. If you examine a movie and
somebody gets hurt or killed logically
examining thats not right

A. In Fahrenheit 451, the author

creates a dystopian society that
goes against the first amendment
which states that everybody has
the right to express themselves

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/
f/fahrenheit-451/critical-essays/theissue-of-censorship-and-fahrenheit-451

B. In most Dystopia books, it goes

against the first amendment
because it usually has a dictator
or a ruler who would kill anyone
who goes against them
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
dictionary/expurgate

What is meant by
expurgation with
regards to literature?

Its to take away something that could

be much censored or very bad in the
book.
Ex. A director cutting a very gory scene
out of a movie

A. How was
expurgation used
by the publisher
with Fahrenheit
451?
B. Describe
Bradburys
response.

A. The publisher used expurgation

in the book to put a realistic but
not scary tone to the book
B. Bradbury fired lots of people,
sending rejection slips to
everyone, and by ticketing the
assembly of idiots to far reaches
of hell.

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/
page451/raybradbury.html