“Fahrenheit 451” is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist in this novel is named Montag and in his community people are forbidden from being different and reading books. Everyone has parlours, monitors, seashells and other sorts of technology. Montag is a fireman but rather than putting out fires he starts them to burn books. At the start of the novel Montag enjoys his life until he encounters Clarisse and some others, he then gets a different perspective on life and steals a book. Montag got caught by the captain of the fireman’s department, Beatty. Montag ends up killing Beatty in order to escape, and he meets a few people down by the river and joins their community, living in the shadows. Throughout the novel Bradbury uses language to express the …show more content…
On Granger’s miniature television the news displayed this, “The mechanical hound rushed forward into the viewer, suddenly. The helicopter lights shot down a dozen brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man” (Bradbury 142). This sentence shows that random man is being captured by a hound. Through further reading you will find out that they captured murdered this man because they couldn't find their suspect, Montag, and that the chase had to come to an end or else the viewers would no longer respect them. They specifically chose that man because he wasn't like the rest of the community, he thought for himself, and was not the regular zombie brainwashed by the government. This quote supports the guiding statement because they purposely killed a man, taking away his freedom, just so they could