Fahrenheit 451, a utopian and dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was set in the future, or in this case, sometime after 1990. The book was published in 1953, referring to the future, which would be present day, or even the past at this point. The novel was originally published by Ballantine Books and is in third person omniscient point of view. The protagonist of the novel is Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books for a living. Everything about Montag is as ironic as it gets. For one thing, he is a fireman, yet, he starts fires for a living. Also, his last name, Montag, was from the founder of the National Pencil Company, and yet again, he burns books for a living. I believe the author did this on purpose to one, make the situation more dramatic in irony and two, to foreshadow events that happen later in the story. Other characters include Mildred Montag, Guy's depressed and unemotionally attached wife who at one point, attempts suicide, Guy's fire chief, Captain Beatty, who hates books and seems …show more content…
Montag pulls out a book of poetry and the women are mortified. To his surprise, Mildred comes to his rescue by telling the women that reading the poetry is how the firemen demonstrate the book's uselessness. The women go off to file a complaint against Montag. To escape trouble, Montag goes to the fire station to give Beatty the book he was reading and to tell him how he was right. Beatty somehow knows Montag is lying. They then go to answer a call for a house, which ends up being Montag's house. His wife told on him. Montag is forced to burn his house. As Beatty is still bullying Montag, he throws the flamethrower at him and he burns to ashes. Montag begins to run. Suddenly, he sees it. The Mechanical hound, a gigantic machine that Beatty created injected him with an anesthetic. Montag destroys it with the flamethrower and continues to run with some books that were hidden in his