Some people are taught by universities while others by libraries. Ray Bradbury was totally the second case. Nine years after he was born the Great Depression made a descent upon the United States of America which changed his life a lot. During his schoolyears he was a part of different drama clubs and played a lot, but even though he was an intelligent kid, he had no place to go after school and the only way was to the local library. “Libraries raised me,” he later said. “I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression, and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” During his researching he was so horrified by Stalin’s repressions and Nazi book burnings that he created the Fahrenheit 451 which influenced American culture that time and keep influencing it today. “It …show more content…
We meet Guy Montag who is a fireman and nowadays’ firemen don’t fight with fire to protect the house, but set houses on fire by themselves, more precisely, they burn books, sometimes with people who decided not to leave their house. Guy Montag is a typical American citizen of an alternative future. He has been working as a fireman for more than 10 years, his father and grandfather were firemen too. In the beginning of the story he is happy with his life: he is married, has work and has no fear for the future, but is he really happy? He never thinks about it seriously, he just does his job and burn books, but he has a little secret that he hopes no one will know. One morning he leaves his home for work and on his way he meets his new neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, a 17 years old girl and as she tells by herself “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says they two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” They start meeting