Symbolism Of Fire In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The books are planted into the fireman’s fire house and then they are later found and caught. In fahrenheit 451 they make so the so called “Firefighters” the people who start the fires instead of stopping them which can make the story twist and turn very easily. Consider the symbolism of fire in the novel explore the passages where fire significantly factors into the story. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book that was like a thrill ride because it would be going slow then be really intense and start to speed up. “It was a pleasure to burn” (Page 1). the firefighters of fahrenheit 451 loved to burn books because they thought they weren’t needed but they later find out that doing this will slowly destroy all knowledge. because they slowly burn all the books making all the knowledge disappear it sends them into a war causes all the people to be killed. when everyone gets killed they soon learn from there mistakes of burning books and they make it so they will never burn books again. making the firefighters to stop fires instead of making the fires. …show more content…

“you can’t ever have my books”(Page 58). Montag had to go to her neighbors house and burn it down as the law was to burn all the books. She was kneeling alongside the books touching the drenched letter and cardboard hoping they would let her go. The Firefighters had to rip her off her stacks of books and started pumping kerosene onto the huge pile of books. He looked at the old lady and said “you know the law” and set the house and all the books inside of it into a huge