Farenheit 451: Chapter Analysis

Fahrenheit 451 is a central story of one man’s journey to re-evaluate the truth, which can be deconstructed from its narrative structures to apparent binary oppositions. Bradbury uses a variety of paradoxical statements to describe the deconstructive difference between alive vs. dead. While Mildred, Montag’s wife feels alive with her television family that she regularly interacts with in the parlor, Montag feels like Mildred is physically present but her thoughts and feelings are elsewhere. Furthermore, Montag describes the mechanical hound and “electric-eyed snake” as living creatures, however they are spiritually dead, “the mechanical hound slept but did no sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

The science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about a futuristic dystopian society where everyone follows simple rules/norms: don't read books and spend time with their “families”. The families in the novel are also known as the TV’s. Whoever in the novel reads or owns books, gets put down by the hound. Montag, a protagonist in the novel, works as the fireman whom are very violent (like the rest of the society). No one in this society ever think, but when Montag (Protagonist) meets Clarisse McClellan, he becomes to question everything. Bradbury tries to portray that when people become emotionless, they don’t think about their actions which end up being violent. Bradbury’s hound (terrifying mechanical beast that kills who are unlawful) represents a type of police in the society that regulates everything and everyone. Thus Bradbury’s predictions are similar to today’s society in the police forces (which are controlled by the government).

The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 written by author Ray Bradbury in 1953, shows what he speculates the fate of society to be. Fahrenheit 451 takes places in the corrupt United States when people no longer read books and are satisfied only by entertainment. In Fahrenheit 451, the fire has been perceived in many different ways by the main character Guy Montag, once a fireman. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 represents both rebirth and destruction. Mythological creatures, such as the salamander and Phoenix have influenced the change in the perception of fire.

“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, the mood, the vastness, the wildness,” Emily Carr explains during an interview. Carr explicates a compelling idea: Works of literature contain a sub-meaning or an underlying meaning. These sub-meaning emerges in the bestselling science fiction book written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury expresses sub-meanings in his text by utilizing character foils. Through the character foil displayed in the fictional personas, Montag and Beatty, Ray Bradbury elucidates three main ideas: contradicting viewpoints will unfailingly exist; choices define a person; to choose knowledge is greatness.

He walked on the tracks. And he was surprised to learn how certain he suddenly was of a single fact he could not prove. His mind turned to a strange noise he heard behind him. A loud gasping sound overwhelmed his ears and his body slowly turned around. Montag was shocked to see that Beatty was following him. With the flamethrower in hand, Montag walked cautiously towards the man who should be died. They stared at each other for what feels like years but seconds. Beatty falls to the ground with burn marks on a quarter of his body and begins to speak. “You are going the wrong way” Beatty says “You were supposed to turn left 25 yards back.” Montag look confused and asked “Where are you helping me?” “I believe in the same cause as you” said Beatty. Without asking another question, Montag walks to Beatty and reaches out his hand and walked 25 yards.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic American city. In the novel, firemen burn books of all sorts. Guy Montag, the main character of the story, is a fireman. However, Montag secretly loves books, which is an aspect that differentiates him from his coworkers.

In the society of Fahrenheit 451 there is no meaning of books to the people. Ray Bradbury describes that they think books are useless and they give people pain and awful feelings. The reason for them to think that is they are missing three things that a society needs to read or understand a book. A society needs quality of information, leisure to digest it, the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the first two.

Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which paper burns. In this novel many characters experience change; however, like most people say change can only come with time and in the end that is what really happens, time is what allows the change to occur. Guy Montag, a fireman of his city is discovering his true inner self as he meets new people and discovers the mysteries that are hidden from others, also known as the banned books which no individual is allowed access too. Although where Montag is from, it is not a fireman’s duty to put out fires, but rather to burn books or also set the fires instead of extinguish them. Throughout this book, Montag changes his perception on literature in his society from being the man who burns books for a living

At the beginning of the book, we were asked to define speculative fiction. I defined speculative fiction as, "The genre of science fiction fantasy and horror. " Even after researching what speculative fiction was, I still did not have a clear understanding. After many class discussions, I was able to grasp a better understanding. I would define this genre in which it contains basic elements of science fiction mainly because of the setting that the book takes place in.

Fahrenheit 451 was taken place in a futuristic dystopian society where books were not allowed. Media then replaced books as a form of censorship in order to avoid self-thought throughout the masses. Mildrid, Montag's companion embodies both the shallowness and mediocrity of the society. She has immersed herself absolutely in an electronic world, detaching herself from Montag who commences perceiving the world they live in in a new light. Clarisse is considered an odd individual by her society's standards.

If books are illegal in a dystopian future and must be rid of, there will be people who will think what they are doing is right while few think it is wrong. Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, talks about a dystopian future where books are illegal and are to be rid of without any questioning. Many go with society and let the books burn without hesitation while few minorities hide from the world while hiding books from the sight of firemen. In Fahrenheit 451, it shows that everybody has the freedom of expressing their own thoughts and opinions, people have the ability of choosing what is right and wrong but few are forced to choose one such as a fireman.

Did you know that firefighters are the ones who actually starts the fires and not put them out? Well, me either,but in Ray Bradbury’s story “Fahrenheit 451”Firefighters are different and actually go into homes and burn book collections just cause.Books are important but in Fahrenheit 451 not so much.one important theme in “Fahrenheit 451” is that technology will take over and we will no longer need knowledge from books that were created in the past.I know this due to the fact they are burning books with no reason but have tv’s that are the size of walls. In Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451” people in the society seem to be clueless about everything.On page twelve chapter one Clarisse McClellan ask another character named Montag “Is it true that

Bradbury drew on the changing times he lived in as inspiration and stated that, in his opinion, the novel is more of a response to the growing popularity of television than anything. He feared TV would knock literature to the wayside, and that idea shows in what really makes the world of Fahrenheit 451 chilling (Why). He was right. TV defeated reading. The television was an excellent invention, no doubt about it. Although, the way that it has taken over our homes is a definitely tragedy. In the longest-running study, Bob Hancox's team at the University of Otago in New Zealand monitored the television-viewing habits of 1000 children at two-year intervals from the ages of 5 to 15, and compared them with their academic achievements at age 26.

Now at first glance anyone may look at the book and wonder what does Fahrenheit 451 mean? Well Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches on fire. This is our first glimpse into Ray Bradbury’s dystopian world in Fahrenheit 451. So, this book was originally published in 1953 during World War II and starting the Cold War, which plays a huge role in what this book symbolizes. The author of Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury.