The book Fahrenheit 451 is about a man named Guy Montag. Montag works for the Firehouse as a Fireman, but Fahrenheit 451 is set in the future. A future where Firemen do not put out fires, instead they start them. These firemen set ablaze to only books. They set fire to books because they are wrong, evil, and corruptive. At least that's how they are said to be, because of the ideas they cause. Which leads me to what I believe is the theme of Fahrenheit 451. Oppression. Mostly oppression of ideas. These books are illegal because they cause people to think. Once people start to think they create ideas. Ideas which would weaken the government. Since nobody has any ideas or thoughts, nobody really talks, but one day on his way home from work Montag