Book Review Of Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is living in a dystopian world where books are not allowed. Guy Montag’s job is a firefighter and in which their world they burn books. After a tragic accident where Montag couldn’t save a older women because she was too attached to her books she ended up getting burned alive. After that day Guy Montag has finally decided that it is time to show that books are not a bad thing and he needed to do what was best and let books be legal.

Beatty, he tries to stop Montag’s curiosity in books, changing how he interacted with Mildred’s friends and his emotions in and out of the firehouse. Montag’s firehouse got a call for a report that a woman had books hidden away in her house. As they arrive and are preparing to put out the fire the woman asks them if she can keep the books and why they must burn. “‘You can’t ever have my books,’ she said. “You know the law,” said Beatty. “Where’s your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You’ve been locked up for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived”(Pg. 38). Beatty is a strict law and rule follower so he told the woman that books are full of nothing and that they are irrelevant. He also wanted Montag to know this as well because before they went to this woman’s house, Beatty thought Montag was acting strangely at the firehouse. So Beatty says this to try to prevent Montag from reading books and stop him from asking so many questions about books. After seeing the woman burn in her house along with her books Montag begins to start hating his job and became even more curious about books. His curiosity arises as he thought if books could make a woman stay in a burning house there must be something books have that he doesn’t know yet. He gets home and suddenly feels “ill” so Captain Beatty comes over to

He read a dozen pages here and there. . . Mildred sat across the hall from him. ‘What does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything! The Captain was right!’ ‘Here now,’ said Montag. ‘We’ll start over again, at the beginning.’ “ (65). Montag’s captain, Beatty, has just left his house. Because Montag’s wife, Mildred, has discovered the book Montag stole, he reveals to her, and to the reader, that he has been stockpiling many books for a while now. Montag saw how insistent Beatty was on how books were confusing garbage compared to the fast and instant entertainment of the TV walls. However, having met Clarisse, he begins to wonder if the books actually contain anything worthwhile, and if they contain actual value. Thus, because Mildred has found the book, he makes her read them with him. Mildred reacts the way she does because she has been spoonfed thoughtless entertainment, and thus cannot think critically about what she reads. Montag, on the other hand, is willing to accept this and try and understand what he reads. Mildred shows how well the government has controlled the citizens. She is unwilling to think and understand, only watch. Also, because Mildred sees that Montag has books, she may disclose his secret to the very firemen he works with, as she has been told almost all of her life that books are bad, and should be reported to the nearest fire station. This may cause their relationship to become very strained in the

“With rebellion, awareness is born,” quoted by Albert Camus. An act of rebellion can cause awareness and open people's eyes to horrendous acts. In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, when Montag realizes that the government wasn’t being fair, he decided he needed to make the society aware. Montag knew a rebellion was the only way to show that the government was not treating citizens right. It is acceptable to rebel when it is believed that the government is being unfair to their citizens because citizens should have the right to freely speak their opinions. People shouldn’t be told what they can or can’t-do for pleasure and they should be able to express their uniqueness.

Throughout the book characters show the theme of distractions. Captain Beatty is the Captain of the fire department, he knows how to read but hates doing it, and everyone who wants to learn. Montag burns Beatty because he finds out that Beatty made montag burn his own house because he had books and because he thinks that books are

He knows she called about his books. Captain Beatty then tells Montag again to burn all of his books, but instead he burns all of Mildred’s things. He loves the desire of burning and destroying all of her things. Captain Beatty tells Montag that he is to be arrested afterwards. All of the firemen watch as Montag’s house burns. Captain Beatty and Montag start to argue about books and their importance again. They start a physical fight. The fight escalates to Montag pointing a flame thrower at Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty goes on to taunt Montag, so Montag decides to burn Captain Beatty

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction novel placed in the future. The plot of the story is about a firefighter named Montag in a futuristic city where firefighters start fires instead of extinguishing them. He starts to read books although it is illegal and realizes many truths in the society. Montag kills his fire chief and meets intellectuals by the railroads. They watch as the city is destroyed and go back to rebuild society. Beatty is Montag’s fire chief and boss. He is invested in getting rid of books, although he himself reads. Faber is a former english professor who maintains a low profile and also reads books. He helps Montag understand them. In Fahrenheit 451

Some people were really passionate about books, but it was rare, because if you wanted to be able to read books, you had to keep them hidden. One day, the firefighters discovered a woman who had been hiding books in her home. The lady refuses to leave the house without the books so they burn the house, books, and the woman. After that, Montag was traumatized. He couldn’t stop thinking about the horrible incident. He began to question himself, and his individuality. That night Montag kept complaining to his wife Mildred, “‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay

Montag grows consistently dissatisfied with his life and work the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to ponder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even snatches one from one of his book burning missions. Meanwhile Clarisse disappears, which I assumed she was dead and his boss, Captain Beatty, is growing suspicious. He lectures Montag on the potential hazards of books and explains the origin and history of their profession. Far from rejuvenated, Montag feels blazing anger and becomes more dangerously rebellious than ever. He spends one afternoon with his wife reading his secret stash of books he’s been storing behind his ventilator grill and decides he needs a teacher. He takes a Christian Bible and tries to memorize some of it on his trip.

At the beginning of the book ,Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a simple minded firefighter who burns illegal books for a living. At the start of the book he does this without a care in the world. All of that changed when he met, Clarisse, a unique and insightful, seventeen year old girl who made him think twice about life as he knew it. With the help of a frightful ex-professor, Montag is determined to stop the burning of books and begin the era where it is not against the law to read and where knowledge has no limits.

A whisper. Leave me alone...Montag. Hold on, don’t” (Bradbury 97). He told the women about his books, which was very reckless. Although he told them about his books, Faber convinced him to play it off as a joke but it still affected him. Later on, Montag found out that not only did one of Mildred’s friends turn him in, so did Mildred. Montag should not have told Mildred’s friends about him having books because it put Mildred, Faber, and himself in a bad situation where they could all possibly get in trouble. In time, Montag got in trouble and Beatty found out and went to Montag’s house to burn all the books. After his house got burnt “There was nowhere to go...Except Faber. And then he realized he was, indeed, running to Faber’s house, instinctively. But Faber couldn’t hide him, it would be suicide even to try. But he knew that he would go to see Faber anyway”(Bradbury 124). Following Montag’s house being burnt he headed for Faber’s

Despite the firemen’s efforts to force books into irrelevancy, the opposite effect happened; books became even more valuable, to the point of risking oneself’s life to not save the books, but to die with them. Bradbury’s use of books represent two contradictory significances: damnation and salvation. On Montag’s first mission in the novel, he confronts a woman that continues to confuse Montag even further than he already was about to truth of a roles of the firemen, and the value of books: “She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head” (cite). It is heavily implied in the novel that Montag has never felt the emotion of passion. Witnessing a scene such as this, Montag is in disbelief at the thought of a person sacrificing their life for worthless and blasphemous things such as a books. This is essentially the turning point in Montag’s mentality, for it is also implied that the old woman’s death is the first that Montag ever witnessed in his ten years of being a fireman. For his entire life, Montag had been taught to be turned away from books, and that the possession of books leads to death. This sacrificial act towards books is Montag’s first exposure to the fiery passion of martyrdom, and it confuses him. During his conversation with Millie, he tells her that “[people] need to be really bothered once in

While Montag was with his fellow firemen, he opened his mouth to say something but it “was Clarisse McClellan saying” words for him (34). Clarisse’s thoughts and ideas have influenced Montag so much that now he starts to think and even talk like her. Moreover, after Montag reveals his secret book collection to Mildred, he explains that he was thinking about Clarisse and “suddenly realized… it would be best if firemen themselves were burnt” (67). With this statement, not only has Montag changed his stance because of Clarisse and now trying to convince Mildred, while he was with his forbidden books he was still thinking of Clarisse. Furthermore, Mildred is still strong on her anti-book beliefs, which irritates Montag enough to say that Clarisse is ”the first person… [he’s] really like” and that all books “point… to Clarisse” (72). while Mildred and Montag argue over books, she asks why books are important. This comment makes Montag realize how much he admires Clarisse’s genuineness, and concludes that her and books are somehow the

He then meets up with Faber, an English professor in order to band together and rebel against government to restore their faith in humanity. The two then formulated a plan where they would frame firemen for owning books. A few days passed by and the firemen get an alarm at Montag’s residence, where he is forced to burn his collection of stolen books. Montag then murders Captain Beatty by burning him alive with his flame thrower. After killing his superior, Montag then becomes a fugitive where he was hunted by mechanical hounds, a robot-like dog that can track wanted people.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel about a futuristic community that has lost the ability to socially interact with one another. Guy Montag is the average citizen. His profession is a fireman, except in this society firemen don’t prevent fires, they start them. His job, like many other firemen, is to illuminate books by burning them because books are illegal. Over the course of Fahrenheit 451, Montag realizes society and its faults. Bradbury uses Montag to depict technology and censorship as examples of warning signs, and how that society could one day become ours.