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Society Exposed In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The Setting is in a nameless city in 2053. Fahrenheit 451 is about a controlled society. The society never reads and never feels emotion. In this book they start fires, and they burn books because they’re illegal. Montag is living in in a corrupt world where they believe anything the government says. Fahrenheit 451 is by Ray Bradbury.
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in an American city. Montag's world starts fires instead of putting them out. Montag meets a “17-year-old” girl named Clarisse McClellan, and she opens Montag’s eyes to the emptiness in his life. Soon after he reads the books he feels sympathy. “What’s wrong…” (p.g. 30) Faber was an ex professor. Faber is one of Montag's mentors. In the book Faber feels cowardly because he did nothing to stop the books from getting banned. Faber is a white haired academic that helps Montag in the long run. Clarisse is a young gentle 17 year old girl. Clarisse is an independent girl who is an outcast from everyone that’s why her parents sent her to a counselor because they think she has social anxiety. Clarisse soon dies in the first chapter because she was “accidentally”hit by a car.” “water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them to tells …show more content…

"It was a pleasure to burn."(p. g. 1) The book start off by Montag burning books and then not wanting to burn them because he gain an interest. If you read books you were "accidentally" killed because they are illegal. Clarisse got killed for reading. Clarisse was. Different from others her parents sent her to a counselor because she was "antisocial." Clarisse had spoken ways that no one else spoke. Clarisse saw thing differently. "my uncle drove slowly once...they jailed him for two days."(p. g. 6) Montag read to the girls.When montag read to the girls started to cry because they've never felt the way they did. Mildred told on Montag for reading than that started the

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