By: Jessica Sean
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury was an America well-known science-fiction author that best known for his Fahrenheit 451 novel that was published in 1953. This novel depicts the future of America that was totally different with the America in his era. The title of the book itself, Fahrenheit 451, represents the whole story in the novel. “F451-the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns…”
Firstly, Ray Bradbury describes the future throughout the main character in his novel, Guy Montag, a fireman who burn books for a living. Guy Montag is not an ordinary man. At first, he found that it is a pleasure to burn; he was satisfied with his everyday …show more content…
It describes how books are banned in the society and why books must banned. In the F451 society, government uses radio, television, and entertainment to control people. Therefore, the situation in F451 is knowledge versus ignorance. In which minority is the group that owned and read books, while majority people in the society think simply and they never against the law to not read books. This story teaches the readers how important are love and knowledge. It also tells us that being no worries and having no complicated thought is not the part of real happiness. But, the real happiness is when people could contribute something to their society before they die. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said,” said …show more content…
Montag find out that Clarisse is not an ordinary girl; she is brave and has a high-curiosity about everything. But, a few days after their friendship, Clarisse suddenly disappear. He heard that Clarisse had been killed by a speeding car. He really depressed and since then, he begins his searching in books. He even stole books from houses that he burned to read and understand them. When Montag tried to skip works, captain Beatty visits him. Captain Beatty seems to know Montag’s problem and he lectured Montag about books. He said that books contradict each other and it is shortened day by day, so for people’s happiness, government should banned books. Captain Beatty’s visit shocked Montag and at the night, he begins his silence reading. In his reading process, Professor Faber helps Montag a lot. When Montag comes out with the idea to plant books in firemen houses to prevent people from trusting firemen, Faber even contacted book publisher to print out books. Faber also gives him a pair of radio seashell so that they could communicate efficiently. When Montag reaches home, he realized that his wife’s friends come to watch the television. By this chance, Montag takes out a book and read the poetry. The women really distracted with the poem and Mrs. Phelps cried. This is one of the reasons why Mildred decided to set an alarm in her own house and escaped. This time, Beatty forced