Fahrenheit 451 is a novel based in futuristic America where books are banned from society due to the dangers they impose to the government with the knowledge that they hold. The story revolves around Guy Montag, a fireman in the new world. Firemen in this new world don’t fight fires, but instead create them. The fires are used for destruction of books due to the ban upon literature.

I feel that the novel showed a refreshing perspective on the new world that could be, or at least what author Ray Bradbury imagined when he wrote this book. It highlights the dangers of literature and the ideas it can implant in a reader’s mind. The freedoms in this new world are limited to keep the government in unopposed power, which interests me as it relates