Fahreheit 451

A detailed Summary of Fahreheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a literary work of art. It is a novel about censorship and one mans fight against it. The story was written in the fifties, but is set in the future. Ray Bradbury's prediction of what the future will be like is precise in some aspects, but completely outrageous in others. He pictures the future as a somewhat a dictatorship government. The government controlled everything in their lives. People don't think either. Technology is made it so that people are given all their information through a television sort of a device that imitates a family. Books are obsolete, so they are burned. Our hero of this story is a "fireman". Only, these futuristic firemen don't fight fires, they burn books. They burn them so people don't think, and so everyone is of equal intelligence. They don't want anyone to rise up and be higher than the next person. This fireman's name is Guy Montag. He lives in a condominium with his wife Mildred. The story sets off as Guy is walking home from work.

As he walks home, he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She talks to him about his job and they talk for a while. He finds out that this girl lives upstairs from him. He returns to hi

Also, the plot was original. It also showed the relationship between the people and their government. In this nation, the government had absolute power, which I think, referred to the dictatorships of then Nazi Germany or the Fascism of Italy. It also showed the conflict of good vs. evil. Faber represented the good, somewhat holy side, and Beatty represents the mind controlling satanic character trying to make Montag stay on the enemy's side. Faber leaves Montag to choose himself which path to take. Bradbury also used dramatic pauses, to add to the intensity of scenes.

Ray Bradbury, the author of this novel, used irony that added effect to the story line, although the ironies are only realized to the character at the end. This story has hidden plots that can be uncovered after reading it twice or even three times.

Fahrenheit 451 has become one of my favorite books to read and I recommend it to anyone. His characters left a lasting imprint on how I think about the future, the government, and about censorship.

Mildred stormed out of the house and got into a taxi. Montag realizes that she must have turned him in. Beatty orders Montag to burn the house by himself and hands him a flame-thrower. When he is finished, Beatty placed Montag under arrest. Beatty sees that Montag is listening to something and he slapped Montag across the face. The two-way radio flew out of Montag's ear. Beatty picked it up and said he was going to trace it to see who was on the other end. Montag picked up his flame-thrower and burnt Beatty to a crisp. He knocked out the other two firemen and fried the mechanical dog, but not before the dog stuck a procaine needle in his leg. He went to the back of the house and found four books that Mildred had missed. He picked them up and headed toward one of his coworkers' houses. He plants a book there and goes to a nearby gas station. He calls an alarm from the phone booth and cleans the soot off his face. Next, he went to Faber's house. There he gave Faber some more money for the printer and Faber gave him some old clothes to mask his scent. Faber tells him to take the old train tracks to find camps of old intellectuals and to visit him in St. Louis sometime. He then runs off into the night. He races towards the river and drenches himself with whiskey to trick the mechanical dog. He makes it to the river and swims downstream. He wakes up in the country, where he finds a camp of old college professors. One of them has a portable TV and they watch the police apprehend another guy they identify as Guy Montag. He meets many professors and intellectuals that show Montag their method of saving literature. Each of them is responsible for memorizing a part

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Approximate Word count = 1831
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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