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* [[spoiler: Beatty's death is ''incredibly'' satisfying. After spending the entire book smugly taunting Montag about damn near everything, he brings Montag to the man's own house to destroy his collection of books, even allowing Montag the privilege of setting fire to them himself. After the deed is done, Montag turns to face Beatty... and blasts him with the flamethrower too, igniting him and burning him to a crisp with the same weapon that just destroyed his books. It's brutal, but it's in no way un-deserved]]

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* [[spoiler: Beatty's death is ''incredibly'' satisfying. After spending the entire book smugly taunting Montag about damn near everything, he brings Montag to the man's own house to destroy his collection of books, even allowing Montag the privilege of setting fire to them himself. After the deed is done, Montag turns to face Beatty... and blasts him with the flamethrower too, igniting him and burning him to a crisp with the same weapon that just destroyed his books. It's brutal, but it's in no way un-deserved]]un-deserved.
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* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swearing (and references to distressing issues, like drug overdoses, suicide, abortion[[note]]one of Mildred's friends in the book is implied to have one because she doesn't like having kids[[/note]], death, being trapped in a loveless marriage, and nuclear annihilation), someone had the brilliant idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.
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* [[spoiler: Beatty's death is ''incredibly'' satisfying. After spending the entire book smugly taunting Montag about damn near everything, he brings Montag to the man's own house to destroy his collection of books, even allowing Montag the privilege of setting fire to them himself. After the deed is done, Montag turns to face Beatty... and blasts him with the flamethrower too, igniting him and burning him to a crisp with the same weapon that just destroyed his books. It's brutal, but it's in no way un-deserved]]
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* Beatty's monologue, while a good example of how villainous he is, is one of the best in literature history.

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* Beatty's monologue, while monologue about why books have become so unpopular that traditional firefighters became book burners is a good great example of how villainous he is, is and is considered one of the best monologues in literature history.



* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swears, someone had the idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.

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* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swears, swearing (and references to distressing issues, like drug overdoses, suicide, abortion[[note]]one of Mildred's friends in the book is implied to have one because she doesn't like having kids[[/note]], death, being trapped in a loveless marriage, and nuclear annihilation), someone had the brilliant idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.

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* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swears, someone had the idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.

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* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swears, someone had the idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.students.

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* Beatty's monologue, while a good example of how villainous he is, is one of the best in literature history.

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* Beatty's monologue, while a good example of how villainous he is, is one of the best in literature history.history.
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* Since the book is popular with schools trying to teach lessons about censorship but also contains some mild swears, someone had the idea to make a censored version of the book. Students caught wind of this and protested that it was exactly the kind of censorship the book warns about. The publishing company dropped the censored version. An extended version of the book includes an interview with Bradbury where he states he couldn't be more proud of the students.
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* Beatty's monologue, while a good example of how villainous he is, is one of the best in literature history.

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