Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 166 pages Terry Hungerford FAHRENHEIT 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by a American writer Ray Bradbury published in 1953. In the first part of Fahrenheit 451, the character guy name Montag, a thirty year old fireman in the 24th century. In this dystopian (dreadful and oppressive) setting, people race "jet cars" down the roads as a way of terminating stress, "parlor walls" are large screens in every home used dually for entertainment and governmental propaganda, and houses have been fireproofed, thus making the job of firemen, as they are commonly known, obsolete. However, firemen have been given a new occupation; they are burners of books and the official censors of the state (Bardburry, …show more content…
It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured. Montags goals are simply to go to burn the books. Montag ends up burning the book of poetry because he was mad.After he read a poem to the ladies and Mrs. Phelps started crying, Mrs. Bowles raged out at him and called him nasty.The main conflict was man vs society.It was resolved because he didn’t have to worry about law enforcements because the city was nuked. In Fahrenheit 451, owning and reading books is illegal. Members of society focus only on entertainment, immediate gratification and speeding through life. If books are found, they are burned and their owner is arrested. If the owner refuses to abandon the books, as is the case with the Old Woman, he or she often dies, burning along with them. People with interests outside of technology and entertainment are viewed as strange, and possible