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Have you ever known two people from the same family who look so different but act so much alike? My best friend, Mike, looks totally different from his older brother, but even if you didn't know them, you'd swear they were related. That's because they both have the same taste in music, they share common mannerisms, and they both share a twisted sense of humor. The same can be said of the people and the mechanical hound in Fahrenheit 451. Although they look so different, when you look closer you'll discover they really share much in common.
Perhaps the most common similarity between these two is that they are both "programmed" for what to think or what to do. Obviously the mechanical hound can do nothing without being programmed to do so first. It is a robot, an empty machine. We learn that it has over ten thousand different scents programmed into its "brain" so it can track people. On slow nights at the station, the firemen program it attack cats and dogs. Capt. Beatty even......

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