Book Review

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about the future when firemen burn houses instead of saving them. It is illegal for people to own books in the future, so if someone finds out if there is a book in the house firemen will come and burn the house. When one of the firemen meets a girl, he starts wondering what is in the books.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/
The site gives a more detailed summary of the book.


Fahrenheit 451 makes you think of how much TV and other forms of entertainment controls what people think. It also makes you think of how important books are and what the world would be like with out them.
http://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/0345342968
The site gives a couple more reviews of the book.


The site below gives Ray Bradbury biography. It talks about how he writes about the future in all of his books. It says he used to sell newspapers on the street corners of L.A. He would spend his nights in a library and his days writing.
http://www.raybradbury.com/bio.html

The Crucible

1. What was Miller's point in writing The Crucible?

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/4191/MILLER/millers.html#Who_was_Arthur_Miller

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM
The sites tell how Miller wanted prove to people how McCarthyism was the same as hunting witches.
I think he was trying to show people how bad McCarthyism was. He wanted show people how no matter what you said to defend yourself it could be used against you. He was trying to make people realize that MaCarthyism was just as bad as the witch trials in Salem. I think he did prove to many people MaCarhyism was the same as hunting witches.

2. How are McCarthyism, the Red Scare, Arthur Miller and The Crucible interrelated?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm

http://mtmt.essortment.com/mccarthyismred_rmfw.htm

The sites talks about McCarthyism and the Red Scare.

The Crucible, McCarthyism, and the Red Scare are all related because they all deal with persecuting people. They all kill and imprison people who don't believe exactly what they believe. They don't give the accused a chance to defend themselves. They also use everything the accused say against them.

3.Document other times in American history when 'witch hunts' were conducted and discuss the outcomes of the Salem witch hunt and the other witch hunts you find. What do they all have in common?
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html

This site tells how the Japanese were treated and why during World War II.

The Japanese were forced to go to camps during World War II. The camps were over cowed and had poor living conditions. Later some of the people could leave the camp if they enlisted in the army. In the end many Japanese Americans renounced their citizenship.

http://www.indians.org/articles/indian-reservations.html
This site tells about the Indians and reservations.
The first settlers tried to convert the Indians to Christianity. Later the Indians were forced to live on reservations. They were killed if they would not move to the reservations. Some of the new laws prohibited Indians from hunting. Many of them didn't know how to farm and didn't want to learn so they died of starvation.
The Indian and Japanese witch hunts forced people to move. All witch hunts are caused when people try to covert people of a different culture. The government tries to protect people during witch hunts, but ends up killing innocent people. The outcome of any witch hunt is people dieing for no reason.