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Oh the problems we had…

Seriously? You didn’t

italicize the title?

AND HE WANTS YOU

TO

USE MLA CITATION!

PROOFREAD!

The 8th Commandment of Animal Farm

You need to learn how to use apostrophes! Or else!

I couldn’t help it! I saw another tense issue in a grade 10 essay

and set the place on fire!

The way that the governing systems and “authorities” worked in Fahrenheit 451 is that one questions their authority and everyone just does what they are told.

Tense

Clarisse is also talking about how the schools are focused on watching television. Napoleon is removing the animal’s rights.Hazel is planning an attack.Evey is rebelling against her own ideas.

Gerund Verbs

What kind of world would we be living in?

We’re free.

He made it clear that he’s going to rule.

I really hated this book.

Informal Writing

Hazel was a very smart rabbit who was well respected and trusted by the other rabbits in his warren, whenever the group faced an obstacle or a plan was needed Hazel had all the plans and answers.

Hazel was a very smart rabbit who was well respected and trusted by the other rabbits in his warren. Whenever the group faced an obstacle or a plan was needed Hazel had all the plans and answers.

Run On Sentences…comma splice

Napoleon not only told the animals what to do, he also got more than the other animals “then there were lamp oil candles for the house, sugar for Napoleon’s own table and all the usual replacements.”(76) in the text it tells the reader the Napoleon gets his own table with food and luxury items.

Napoleon not only told the animals what to do, he also got more than the other animals. Orwell notes that “then there were lamp oil candles for the house, sugar for Napoleon’s own table and all the usual replacements”(76). Napoleon gets his own table with food and luxury items.

With book and being a pedestrian being banned, people become the same as one another.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 books are not the only thing to be banned. Citizens are also banned from walking the streets of the community. Being a “pedestrian”, as it is called, is seen – like reading – to be a dangerous act. Dangerous acts like this mark someone as an individual, as opposed to the conformity expected of the citizens.

Context

We see these ideas throughout the book. “Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much notice (22-23). He comments that the…

Hanging Quotes

People have gone so long without  their own thoughts that they “.. always dread the unfamiliar.”(Ray Bradbury 58). Thoughts from an individual can be a powerful thing. Individuals like Gandhi, Hitler, and Martin Luther King Jr. changed history because they had the freedom to express their independent thoughts.

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