Fahrenheit 451 follows Guy Montag, who lives in a futuristic American city that is ruled by suffering. Instead of enjoying nature, reading, and thinking independently, the people in this world are expected to depart from their individuality and spend their spare time watching television and listening to the radio. Books are even outlawed because they promote thinking Guys works as a fireman, but instead of putting out fires, he sets them. The fireman in this society burns illegally owned books and the owners house. However, his whole life is changed when his free-thinking next-door-neighbor, Clarisse, asks him some thought-provoking questions. As a result, Guy realizes that he is completely unhappy with the life he has been living. …show more content…
Consequently, she is burned alongside those books in the fire. Before the incident, Guy listens to Captain Beatty’s rant about how evil books are, but during the conversation Beatty strangely quotes a bit of literature despite his hatred. After the conversation, Guy takes a book from the crime scene without a second thought and suggests reading the books together to his wife, Mildred. However, Mildred doesn’t share the same feeling about books and quickly reports Guy. Firemen show up at Guy’s home to burn his books, but he attacks them which results in him killing Captain Beatty. From this point forward, Montag is on the run. He flees the city and meets with a group of intellectuals. Each member of this group has memorized part of a book, so they invite Guy to join their circle because he has read a few pages of the Bible, which they hope to recover from him. While conversing, they witness the city being bombed and destroyed before their eyes. However, one of the men believes that the citizens can be like a Phoenix and rise from the destruction.