Fahrenheit 451- THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH BOOKS BURN...
Ray Bradbury, born in 1920, sold newspapers after he graduated from high school along with creating his own magazines and writing short stories. When Bradbury was 20 years old he published his first money making story. Fahrenheit 451, one of his best-known novels, was published in 1953. It was originally published as a short story, and Bradbury later expanded it to its current length. Bradbury is recognized as a ground breaker in making science fiction a respected literary genre.
Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a society in which books are illegal. His job is not to extinguish fires, but to light them. He burns books, and all the firemen wear the number "451" on their uniforms because that is the temperature at which books burn. He later meets a young women named Clarisse, she makes him think about the world beyound the wall of television and seashell radios (watching TV and listening to the seashell radio is all his wife does); she makes him wonder about life.
Montag listens to her and takes an interest in reading books that he is suppose to burn. But once his chief relizes what he is doing, he forces Montag to burn his own house. Montag kills his fire chief in response to save his life and escapes the city.
"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" pg. 141
-Here is a quote from Montag when he was floating down the river once he had left the city. He realizes why he must never burn books again in his life. He knows one of them had to stop burning. The Sun certainly wouldn't so he knew it had to be him.
Fahrenheit 451 is a great book, there was dialogue so it ws easy to comprehend. You can tell right away that it is a different time period people are unaware of literature. Literature is not apprecaited in the American Soceity but Montag is trying to find men who remember the great novels to help the world return to the appreciation of literarture.
Is Montag able to bring back the world where it once was so many years ago?
Guess you will have to read it to find out!
Book Reviews
1) http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/f451_movie.htm
2)http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Fahrenheit-451.id-106,pageNum-7.html
Cites
1) http://www.bookrags.com/notes/451/
2) http://www.bookrags.com/Fahrenheit_451
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So Elizabeth, How were you introduced to this book? What really struck you about the book? Should others read it? Why? Prove to your readers that this a book worth reading.
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