Afterword to the Novel
Questions:
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Which information in this afterword do you find
the most interesting? Why?
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The dime novel was the ancestor of today’s
paperbacks: a thin, paperbound novel that,
as the name suggests, originally cost only ten cents. Why do you think Bradbury
includes the story of his “dime novel”?
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In the new scene provided from the play version
of Fahrenheit 451, what do you think Bradbury hopes to convey when he has
Captain Beatty say, “It’s not owning
books that’s a crime, Montag, it’s reading
them. Yes, that’s right. I own books, but don’t read them!”?
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Do you agree with Bradbury that the reappearance
of Clarisse at the end of the novel would be an improvement? Why or why not?
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LITERARY CONCEPT: A good afterword should
provide new insights into the work it follows. What new insights does this afterword
give you into Bradbury’s novel?
