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The society depicted in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is eerily similar to our society today, especially in the areas of television technology, viewing, and programming. Although Hemingway denied it, symbolism plays an important role in his novel The Old Man and the Sea. George Orwell's 1984 is a frightening warning about an emerging totalitarian world, a world which is dangerously close to our current world, perhaps nowhere closer than in the role the media plays in manipulating what we believe and how we see the world around us. Although Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye were written over half a century apart, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caufield share many similarities which transcend their settings and allow modern teen readers to identify with their characters. Shakespeare's Macbeth is fiction loosely based on historical fact, but Macbeth's tragic flaw of ambition is unfortunately alive and well in modern American politics.
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