For this book review I am writing about the novel “Fahrenheit 451”, more specifically on the main character Guy Montag. The reason I am writing this book review is that I want to encourage others to read this book as I believe this is a really excellent novel for a book study/research task. I am writing for the intended audience of my peer group who are young college students doing an English course.
In “Fahrenheit 451” I was interested with the character Guy Montag due to how I sympathized with his mission throughout the text. Montag is a fireman in a city in future America in which unlike the fireman of the present who fight and put out fires, the fireman of the “future America” instead create fires and burn all forms of literature. What
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Bradbury is trying to use this story as a message to the society of then as a warning, a warning that the advent of television and advanced radio . are going to phase out literature and writing, the rise of censorship and “equalizing the people” as Captain Beatty put it in the text to prevent certain groups from being offended or that society might all together forget about books, writing, independent thought, individualism in favor of being ignorant with television and radio and a self-made idea: the “Seashell Radio” which is a allegory to how modern technology is a corrupting influence upon a societies people and how it can them forget all about classical literature such as written work, parables and poems that are an important tool in educating a society on the problems of life. Through his stylized writing style, he uses the ‘Seashell Radio’ as a way to warn of the mass normalization of baseless entertainment that doesn’t foster creativity or intellectualism, Bradbury also writes the science fiction text “Fahrenheit 451” as a warning to how dangerous a society with no literature can become, how it can become grim and dull without the thought of books which in turn doesn’t allow individual thought to exist; creating a society which is