Fahrenheit 451: A Short Story

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the author creates a picture of a society that resembles our present-day society in a variety of ways. Although a society in which government has total control over its citizens seems to be a little extreme, there are definitely clues that can be seen today that suggest that we are headed in the same direction. Some of the resemblances between the society in Fahrenheit 451 and our society today are the governments’ hypocrisy, the gullibility of the citizens who fully support the government, and the fact that books are becoming rather extinct due to advances in modern technology.

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1. At the beginning of the story, how does Montag feel abou this job? Give specific examples to support your response.

He ran right by the general's tent and went straight down to the river. John ran through all the fields they had walked through just to get there. He did not where he was going but he knew his way back to James. Nightfall came upon him shortly.

“By then I could feel the ground rumbling through my shoes. I saw the first water sluicing through the lowest part of the pasture, and I knew we didn't have time to make it to higher ground ourselves. In the middle of the field was an old cottonwood tree, broad-branched and gnarled, and we ran for that.” pg.12

It was a day I would never forget.We were all sitting in the fire hall and there was a fire call. And the call was on Montag’s street. He knew where we were heading. We jumped in the red fire truck and started down the road. The look on Montag's face gave it away that he knew where we were going. And he looked like he knew what he did. We pulled in his driveway, and he knew that he did something wrong. Mildred face was like she turned him in. We were going into the house and Mildred was standing there. She had turned him in for reading. I told him that he has been reading too much. He was learning way too much stuff from those books. Montag was going to burn the books, but he was gonna have mildred do it for him she said that he had to do

Montag job is to burn books and by burning these knowledgeable books, he takes away knowledge from the society therefore ignoring all the knowledge that can be given to the society. Montag's first sense of knowledge came from McClellan when she asked, "Do you ever read the books that you burn?" When Montag got home he thought about the question. Montag ignored the fact of what could be in books, he was just doing his job until he realized that books have power. Montag finally realized when he burned a library with a woman inside protecting her books. For the first time Montag actually thought of what he was doing. Montag had a curiosity of why the woman would stay in a burning library to protect her books. This is what sparked Montag to quit his job as a firefighter.

Ban books or burn them? Ray Bradbury wrote his famous novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953 fantasizing about a world in which books were banned, and when a book was found it was burnt and destroyed. Little did he know that his thought of books being banned could actually happen and that it would be one of his own. Today Fahrenheit 451 is being banned and challenged in schools all across America. How ironic that a book about books being banned is now being banned around the country. A prize winning book by a prize winning author is now being questioned as to whether it is a good book to teach in an English class. Though Fahrenheit 451 may contain controversial elements such as language, discussion of

This part of the book shows the amount of courage Montag has. Because he went into a public place with a book. When he could get arrested.

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” is a famous quote said by Heinrich Heine, which relates to the concept of book burning, seen in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury uses his unique literary style to write the novel Fahrenheit 451; where he brings his readers to a future American Society which consists of censorship, book burning, and completely oblivious families. The novel’s protagonist, Guy Montag, is one of the many firemen who takes pride in starting fires rather than putting them out, until he encounters a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan. As the novel progresses, the reader is able to notice what Clarisse’s values are in the novel, how her innocence and

Montag entered into the parlour and pulled the switch to the television we were viewing. I invited my friends Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles over to view the evening show and to have a couple of drinks. Montag stared into our eyes and asked my ladies “ When do you suppose the war will start?” why was he speaking this gibberish talk? The evening show is on. He then continued, “ I notice your husbands aren’t here tonight?” I looked at him to silence but before he did Mrs. Phelps responded, “Oh, they come and go, come and go,” she continued blabbering on. I tried to end the conversation between the two by agreeing with Mrs. Phelps; I quickly responded, “Let old Pete do the worrying”. By this time my evening show was about over so I decided I might

Upon entering the yard, they discovered the tree house. The tree house was inaccessible but for a frayed piece of rope that had once been part of a ladder. The rope was beyond the reach of Sherman and the others, so they swung themselves over the lower branches of the tree to reach the lower landing of the tree house. They successfully managed to hoist themselves onto the lower landing from where they began to run along the labyrinth-like walkways and steps in a race to reach the top of the tree house. Sherman was running ahead of the others but tumbled when one of the worn slatted steps splintered and gave way. Sherman fell a long distance to the ground and sustained multiple injuries.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

“There’s a split in the trees ahead,” said David. They quickly darted through the trees.

The others would never do that” (21). He is a very thoughtful man, and has a sensitivity about him. He also is a searcher for a deeper meaning in life. He says, “We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you’ve been really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (49). Montag is also imperfect. He is really rash and is filled with a passion that sometimes cripples his goals. He can be destructive, like when he rashly kills Beatty (113). He gets confused and overwhelmed with tough situations and sometimes doesn 't know how to get out of them. All and all Bradbury knew he wanted to make Montag the hero and builds that image bit by bit.