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Burned In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 books in homes are getting burned. Firefighters go into homes that contain books and burn them in the homes. Some of the civilians that have their homes burned are staying inside because they want to keep their books. In the end they just end up dying if they do stay in the fire. Most civilians do end up letting their homes get burned. Fahrenheit 451 shows how normally good civilians are now becoming terrorists in a dystopian society. The protagonist Guy Montag is a firefighter which I would consider to be a rebel during most of the book. He took books that he was supposed to be burning and he killed Captain Beatty in his own house fire. The only reason he killed Beatty was to let Professor Faber (English teacher before books got banned) have an increased chance of escaping the city. “The sun burned every day. It burned Time . . . So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!” (Bradbury, 141). Everything was getting burned in Montag’s eyes which caused him to not want the books to be burned. He wanted to save things nobody else …show more content…

They originally met in the park when they started a meaningful conversation about planting books in firemen's homes so they would get burned down. They also considered printing out books they could find so others could enjoy them. Montag did only a few good things in this book like wanting to reprint them and letting Professor Faber get a chance to escape. Otherwise, he wasn’t a good character. "I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well-fed . . . Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!" (Bradbury, 70). He wanted to stop making the same mistakes so he wanted to punish the firemen for doing what they were doing to homes. But it backfired on him because he made the poor decision of having books in his

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