1. F a h r e n h e I t
by Ray Bradbury

2. Notes on Bradbury Born 1920 in Illinois
Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from National Book Awards

3. Bradbury wrote for Alfred Hitchcock and TV series The Twilight Zone
                                            

4. Helped design EPCOT center and 1964 World’s Fair

6. A crater on the moon, Dandelion Crater, was named after one of Bradbury’s book titles: Dandelion Wine.

7. What was going on in 1953?

8. Bradbury in 1952

9. Fahrenheit 451
Inspired by real life and his short story “The Pedestrian”
1950 Wrote a shorter version entitled “The Fireman” that was published in the Galaxy Sci-Fi Magazine
                              

10. Publication date of Fahrenheit 451
                              
Written at UCLA Library on a rented Type writer for 10cents per 30mins. Took 9 days to write and cost $9.80
Copy-righted in 1953

11. The Cold War

12. Invention of the Hydrogen Bomb
(20 x more powerful than the atomic bomb)
                        

15. death of Stalin
Joseph Stalin dies in the Soviet Union

16. Debut of
Colored
television

18. America caught up in
McCarthyism
   
   
   

19. McCarthyism: A national fear
A campaign to rid the U.S. of “card-carrying Communists”
Instituted by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
The accused were required to attend hearings

21. A helpful guide to blacklisting, published during the 1950's.

24. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451was written during the Cold War in response to the censorship going on in the name of Communism, and in which books were burned to get rid of them and their ideas.  Author Stephen King once told a group of students that if they hear of a book being banned, they should run out and read it to find out what it is that people don't want others to know. 

25. Nazi Book Burning 1933
Without Free Speech no search for the truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousand abuse free speech than deny free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of people, and entombs the hope of the race -
by Charles Bradlaugh

28. Literary elements in Fahrenheit 451:

29. Conflict
a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces,or emotions

30. External conflict
a character struggles against an outside force, such as another character, society, or nature as a whole

31. Internal Conflict:
a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions.
an internal conflict occurs within a single character

32. theme:
the central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature. Fahrenheit 451 is about individuality, censorship, human dignity

33. symbolism:
                            
the use of people, places, things, events to represent something else besides itself. (The Hearth and the Salamander)