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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a large nameless U.S. city in the year 2053. Some more specific settings in the novel are the fire station, Guy and Mildred Montag’s home, and Professor Faber’s home. A very strong feeling of sadness and hatefulness in this novel seems to be the mood the Bradbury is conveying. He as well made the people living in that society blinded and careless about everything. Bradbury set this story in the future year of 2053, but he wrote it right after World War II. The main character in this novel is Guy Montag, a thirty-year old fireman with dark hair. Throughout the novel, Montag seems to be very bothered and confused. Montag is the protagonist of this story because he goes against the …show more content…

Clarisse asks Montag many different questions about his life and his job as a fireman. After Montag had to burn a lady’s house down with her in it, he stays home and tells Captain Beatty that he is sick. He snuck a book home from the woman’s house to read along with the other books he had been hiding. After getting help from Faber, Montag goes home and shows his books to Mildred and her friends. He read a poem from a poetry book which caused Mrs. Phelps to start crying. Montag freaked the girls out, and they left. Montag went back to work the next day and they had an alarm called in, when they arrived it was Montag’s own home. Montag killed Captain Beatty so Faber wouldn’t get caught, he also killed the Mechanical Hound so it wouldn’t inject him with the numbing fluid. He tooks Faber’s advice and ran to the river. When he got to the end he saw a fire in the woods and met a group of men just like him. The main conflict in this novel is Man vs. Society. The government covers everything up to hide the truth. All of the people are so blinded by the big parlor walls to realize truth and what’s going on. The right to read books was taken away from everyone. Montag goes against the society by reading books. “‘Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool us and the government.’” (31). Captain Beatty states this because he works as a fireman for the government even though he knows the truth …show more content…

When Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy he brushes it off but he knows he truly is not. “‘Happy! Of all the nonsense. What does she think? I’m not?’” (8). Montag wants to know the truth, but the law is making it difficult for him. It’s hard for Montag to be happy because he is stuck in a meaningless marriage with a wife that is nothing like him. Montag really just wants Mildred to understand what he is going through and she is too blind to understand. The only people in that society that could ever have a real chance to be truly happy are the ones that know the truth. When Montag shows Mildred the books she starts freaking out, he explains to her that it’s okay to look at them once according to Beatty. He wants Mildred to look at them with him to see if either of them understand what the words mean. “‘We can’t burn these. I want to look at, at least look at them once.’”

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