Fahrenheit 451, the award winning book by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a futuristic suburban city in the twenty fourth century, during a major war that is downplayed by society. The antagonist, a fireman named Guy Montag, lived in a time where books are illegal, people didn't think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they were more concerned with work so they could pay for wall-sized televisions, newer cars, and radios the size of seashells. As a fireman, Guy actually started fires instead of putting them out. Firefighters at that time responded to emergency calls, that reported the locations of books, and the firefighters burned them. The protagonist, Captain Beatty, continuously conflicted with Montag as he began to …show more content…
After one of his shifts, he ran into one of his neighbors, Clarisse McClellan. Normally, people didn't associate with each other but this seventeen year old girl with a milk-white face and dark eyes, was different. He started talking to her every day after work, and she began striking up meaningful conversations that broadened his thoughts about his own life and society. This, and some other events change his entire state of mind. Including, the discovery of his bland, vacant and obsessive wife Mildred attempting suicide by overdose, and watching a woman burn herself on her pile of books. Guy started questioning everything around him and became curious about the books he had been burning. A short time late, Clarisse disappeared with no mention of why. As a result of this, he stole books from the locations he was supposed to burn them, and hid them in his house. When he became more and more curious, he read a few pages from every book with his thin, discouraging, bland, vacant and obsessive wife Mildred. He also met an old, white-haired, cowering english professor, Mr. Faber, that still idealized books. Together, they formed a plan to print multiple copies of the books he had stolen. Towards the middle of the book, Montag got frustrated with the