The setting of the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray bradbury is set in a large nameless U.S. city. The city is thought to be L.A.; in the near future, thought to be in the year 2053. Because he put his books one hundred years in the future. The mood is sad because he is trying to make the reader feel a sense of a future with no opinion and laziness. The book is about what will happen in the future sooner than later. The book had three major influences which were nazi book burnings, the cold war and advancement of technology.
There are three main characters. The first main character is Guy Montag. He is a thirty year old fireman and is married. His job is burning books. During the book, he changes from burning books to saving books so his purpose is going against the government. He said ”’...there must be something in books…”’(48). This proves that Montag is changing from burning books to liking books. This is where his personality is starting to change and starting to ask why. Faber is the next main character. He is a former english professor. He is old and a casual acquaintance of Montag. He also calls himself a coward for sitting down and doing nothing when he could have done something against the book burnings when he could have. He loves books and hates how firemen burn them and his purpose is to help Montag out. The third and final main character is Captain Beatty. He is fierce, looks like Montag and is Montag’s boss because he is the fire chief. He hates books and loves burning them, but is more educated and quotes books half of the time. His purpose is to be the antagonist against the book lovers and Montag. Captain Beatty said ”’Burn all, burn everything, fire is bright and fire is clean”’(57). This proves that Beatty is talking about how fire is good for burning things. He is also saying fire need to burn everything bad and start new. Montag meets a girl named Clarisse McClellan. She asked him the question of are you happy, which he is not happy. Montag came home and stepped on an empty pill bottle that his wife Mildred had overdosed on sleeping pills. He called the hospital and they sent two technicians and a stomach pump and they say that they have many overdoses per night. This is because people are not happy in their society. Later, Montag starts trying to read and can’t comprehend the book. He called Faber to help him and Faber tells him the three qualities of happiness which are: ”’...quality of information… leisure to digest it… the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two…”’(81). Then Montag's wife calls to report that her husband has books. When he goes to work, Beatty takes Montag to burn down his house. Beatty gives him a flamethrower and Montag burns Beatty, his house, and the hound, then runs away. He runs to Faber and then runs out of town and meets a bunch of hobos who welcome him. In the morning the government nukes the city as they are watching. The type of conflict in the book is man versus society. The first conflict is where Montag starts hiding books, even though his job is to burn them. Later in the book the author shows how the people don’t care about the ads and are like drones. Montag was on the subway and an ad came on the speakers and said “‘Denhams Dentifrice”’(74) over and over again until Montag went insane. Montag later says …show more content…
The people have what they want, they have the whole world in their hands. ”’...is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor”’(69-70). This shows that Montag is asking why and how they have technology and money and others do not. In the book the TV’s say ”’police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows:...”’(131-132). The thing is everybody does it and does not think about it. If they would ask why they would have not done what they said. The people in the society do nothing, they’re like drones. The government makes all the decisions, like Jesus is part of the
There are three main characters. The first main character is Guy Montag. He is a thirty year old fireman and is married. His job is burning books. During the book, he changes from burning books to saving books so his purpose is going against the government. He said ”’...there must be something in books…”’(48). This proves that Montag is changing from burning books to liking books. This is where his personality is starting to change and starting to ask why. Faber is the next main character. He is a former english professor. He is old and a casual acquaintance of Montag. He also calls himself a coward for sitting down and doing nothing when he could have done something against the book burnings when he could have. He loves books and hates how firemen burn them and his purpose is to help Montag out. The third and final main character is Captain Beatty. He is fierce, looks like Montag and is Montag’s boss because he is the fire chief. He hates books and loves burning them, but is more educated and quotes books half of the time. His purpose is to be the antagonist against the book lovers and Montag. Captain Beatty said ”’Burn all, burn everything, fire is bright and fire is clean”’(57). This proves that Beatty is talking about how fire is good for burning things. He is also saying fire need to burn everything bad and start new. Montag meets a girl named Clarisse McClellan. She asked him the question of are you happy, which he is not happy. Montag came home and stepped on an empty pill bottle that his wife Mildred had overdosed on sleeping pills. He called the hospital and they sent two technicians and a stomach pump and they say that they have many overdoses per night. This is because people are not happy in their society. Later, Montag starts trying to read and can’t comprehend the book. He called Faber to help him and Faber tells him the three qualities of happiness which are: ”’...quality of information… leisure to digest it… the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two…”’(81). Then Montag's wife calls to report that her husband has books. When he goes to work, Beatty takes Montag to burn down his house. Beatty gives him a flamethrower and Montag burns Beatty, his house, and the hound, then runs away. He runs to Faber and then runs out of town and meets a bunch of hobos who welcome him. In the morning the government nukes the city as they are watching. The type of conflict in the book is man versus society. The first conflict is where Montag starts hiding books, even though his job is to burn them. Later in the book the author shows how the people don’t care about the ads and are like drones. Montag was on the subway and an ad came on the speakers and said “‘Denhams Dentifrice”’(74) over and over again until Montag went insane. Montag later says …show more content…
The people have what they want, they have the whole world in their hands. ”’...is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor”’(69-70). This shows that Montag is asking why and how they have technology and money and others do not. In the book the TV’s say ”’police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows:...”’(131-132). The thing is everybody does it and does not think about it. If they would ask why they would have not done what they said. The people in the society do nothing, they’re like drones. The government makes all the decisions, like Jesus is part of the