#003A: Ray Bradbury Analysis
Respond to the following questions after viewing the NEA Big Read interview with Ray Bradbury. Refer to your Cornell Notes and the video for evidence to support your answers.
- How old was Bradbury when he learned to read?
- According to Bradbury, “The things that you do should be ________________________.”
- According to Bradbury how do books influence people?
- Name three authors who inspired Bradbury.
- What did Bradbury learn from Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath?
- According to Bradbury, what do teachers do, and what do libraries do?
- What did Bradbury realize when he was 12?
- What did the carnival performer tell Bradbury when he was 12?
- How did the carnival performer influence Bradbury?
- How could Bradbury “live forever?”
- What are some books and authors that influenced Bradbury?
- What was happening in Berlin when Bradbury was a teenager?
- What did Bradbury learn from that period of time in history?
- According to Bradbury, why are books threatening to leaders in certain countries?
- Where did the author’s idea for Fahrenheit 451 come from?
- How did Bradbury settle on the title, Fahrenheit 451?
- How did Bradbury create the characters in his books?
- What happened to Bradbury when he was 30?
- Who does Bradbury credit with the creation of Fahrenheit 451?
- Who is Aldous Huxley to Bradbury?
- What kind of writer did Huxley tell Bradbury he was?
- Who is the character Clarisse based on?
- What is the most important book in Bradbury’s life? Why?
- What is the answer to life, according to Bradbury?
- Why does Bradbury think his books are popular?
- What is at the center of Bradbury’s books?
- You must “love what you do and do what you love.” What instructions does Bradbury give to young people on this idea?
- According to Bradbury, what should be the center of your life?
- What epitaph does Bradbury give us to remember him by?
- What T-shirt is Bradbury going to have made?