Purpose In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

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Maddie Cossitt Mr. Snow English II PAP- 2 4 September, 2013 Fahrenheit 451: Author’s Purpose Every author has a purpose for composing a piece of literature. When considering author’s purposes, only three reasons exist: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. These potray themselves as ways to category purposes, however, there is much more meaning behind the purpose of writing. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, none of the “three purposes” applied to the novel. Yes, in a fifth grader’s mind, the novel would be “to entertain,” but now there is deeper message behing the novel. It’s a message of warning. Bradbury wants to warn society about the future ahead of us. Today and in Bradbury’s time, all anyone ever worried about

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