The novel is set in the, perhaps near, future where the world is in war, and firemen set fires instead of putting them out. Books and written knowledge is banned from the people, and it is the firemen's job to burn books. Firemen are now the policemen of this time. Some people have rebelled by hiding books, but have not been very successful. Most people have conformed to this world. Guy Montag, a fireman, is a part of the majority who have conformed. Throughout the novel Montag goes through a transformation, where he changes from a Conformist to a Revolutionary.

Guy Montag has never questioned his job before the day he met Clarisse McClellan. This is the first time where Montag is confronted with the idea that, he doesn't understand the whole truth about books. Montag meets Clarisse as he is one day walking home from work, and they strike up a conversation. During their conversation Montag is questioned why books are illegal and why firemen burn the books. She also asks him if he had ever read any of the books that he burned. His reply was that it is against the law. Clarisse even asks "... long ago did

One of these people was an elderly man by the name Fabian. Montag arrived at finding Fabian after reading a book that he had sneaked out of a house that was raided by the firemen. He had many questions and he wanted to find some answers. The only person that he knew that understood the truth about books was an elderly man he had once met in a park, Fabian. When Montag first met Fabian, Fabian did not want anything to do with him. Fabian was too much of a coward. Eventually Montag is able to change Fabian's mind, and Fabian decides to help Montag. Still Fabian is scared because he stays in his house and talks to Montag through an ear-piece. Fabian will help Montag by telling him what to say. While Montag executes his plan of sabotaging the firemen by planting books in their houses'.

The firemen kill the man, but never show a close-up on his face. The firemen did this to keep the people brainwashed, by making them believe that they have everything under control. The men, Montag meets make up an underground group who have tried to keep books alive. Everyone has memorized a different book and then destroyed the book. This way the firemen will never be able to find the books because they are stored in these people's heads. Montag has one book that he had saved before he escaped. He joins these men by deciding to memorize and then destroy this book. In the end Montag and the men watch the city be destroyed. "the war began and ended in that instant."

firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" Montag replies by telling her that that is nonsense, and that "Houses have always been fireproof..." Here you can see how

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Approximate Word count = 1100
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)