In Fahrenheit 451 the protagonist Guy Montag is a firefighter who burns books and doesn't understand why but at the same time he wants to read himself but doesn't want to get caught. In Ray Bradbury's novel, he uses tone in several ways to illustrate censorship through his use of charged words, his use of negative historical symbols, and his ability to reflect the ideas of historical positive role models speaking out.
In Ray Bradbury's novel he uses charged emotional words to describe his character throughout the book. In the beginning of the novel, the way he was writing about Montag was as if, Montag was full of himself of very proud of himself because he used words like he was "great python spitting its venomous kerosene around the world", he had a "fierce grin of all men signed", he was "a minstrel man" and had a "fiery smile". By the end of the novel Montag's mood changed along with the words like "the women that died", it took "A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper", "let me alone", "let you alone", and "need not to be let alone".
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He refers to the Nazi Book Burning that happened on May 10, 1933 that burned 25, 000 volumes of "un-German" books. The Book Burning happened because the Nazi Germen authorities wanted the community to read literature that preached Germen views so they made students burn their un-German books. Still like the novel there were people who had books that should've been gotten rid of and if caused