Fahrenheit 451 The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is filled with many examples of tone, mood, suspense, and tension. These four things engage the reader and make them more interested in the story. Two of the biggest scenes in this book are when Montag burns the women with her books and when Montag confronts Captain Beatty. These scenes both play a big role in Montag’s transformation from the beginning to the end of the book. These scenes are great examples of tone, mood, suspense, and tension, and they add a lot to the book. The first scene is when the woman chooses to stay behind in the house while the firemen are burning it. In this scene the firemen get an alarm to go and burn books, when they start to burn the house the woman who owns the books refuses to leave. …show more content…
This allusion tells us that the author thinks the woman’s sacrifice will change Montag and spark a revolution. The mood in this scene is tense and tragic, in the book it says, “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing.”(37). This woman’s calmness in the face of death is what sets the mood, it makes the reader feel a sense of loss and resistance. When you read this, you feel sad for the woman and you feel that something in this society has to change. Suspense and tension build in this scene as the firemen confront the woman. In this scene Montag steals a book from the woman's house, this builds the tension because for the first time Montag questions whether burning books is