Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. During his childhood, Bradbury would have these frightening dreams, which later he transformed into books. He became a full-time writer in 1943. He often mixes science fiction with social criticism and writes about the ruinous tendency in humans to use technology at the expense of mortality as seen in one of his many books, Fahrenheit 451. In this book the government destroyed books to prevent people from destructive thoughts. I think Bradbury heard about this (burning books) during World War II and heard about the horrors of Nazi Germany. I enjoyed this book because it was enlightening to read about a world reigned by mind control and how society is affected as a whole if something so familiar to us as books were taken away.
I think this book was symbolic because it was about people's loss of freedom. Guy Montag lives in a world that allows no books. This is a society which discourages free-thoughts and opinion, two qualities which are
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