It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. A series of events take place and act as a wake-up call for Montag. However, his life is turned upside down when he encounters Clarisse McClellan, a seventeen-year-old girl, who rekindles the thinking process in him. Guy Montag, the protagonist, is an unhappily married fireman, who is seemingly content with his job.
Firemen are hired in order to set fire to any written material that crosses their path. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury depicts a futuristic society that suppresses free thought by means of outlawing books and burning them. It is divided into three major parts: Part1: The Hearth and the Salamander, Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand and Part3: Burning Bright. It was published in 1953 and was considered as one of Bradbury’s best works. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.īook Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburyįahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by the American writer Ray Bradbury. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television ‘family’. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Book Summary: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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