Fahrenheit 451 Essay

To this day, over ten million copies of Fahrenheit 451 have been sold around the world. Fahrenheit 451 is a very captivating novel about a dystopian world in which books are illegal, firemen start fires instead of putting them out, war is an everyday occurance, and hundreds of other things cause this world to be a dystopia. Although Fahrenheit 451 is a relatively short novel it is packed to the brim with tons of action and detail. The novel Fahrenheit 451 was based and written on the events that took place during World War II and the Holocaust. At the end of Fahrenheit 451, when Montag is running from the town, he sees jets fly by his city and drop a bomb. He sees the bomb “an inch, now half an inch, now a quarter of an inch from the top

But they also burned thousands of books just like in Fahrenheit. At the very beginning of Fahrenheit, Clarisse asks Montag “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” ( Bradbury 6). This tells us that in this dystopian world, firemen create fires specifically to burn books. This is exactly what the Nazis did. To furthermore prove this according to study.com “Bradbury wrote this novel in response to the ever-slowing attention spans and the influx of mass media that was beginning to occur. He focused on past events, such as Nazi book burnings” (study.com 1). This tells us that although Bradbury’s story may not have completely depicted the Nazi’s, he did incorporate parts of their actions in his dystopian story such as book burnings. Because there were so many things happening in this time period it could be argued that there are thousands of other things that happened that may have influenced the writing of the book. And while that is true, World War II and most of the events that happened in that time period are what really inspired the world of fahrenheit 451. But one of the biggest things that influenced the novel of Fahrenheit was Ray Bradbury’s mind. Ray is a very creative person who has created around 35 books. Sure there is some outside influence to