To really understand the novel Fahrenheit 451, it is an important to understand the author and the background behind the story. The novel Fahrenheit451 was written in the year of 1953 by Ray Bradbury. This novel is a dystopian novel meaning it describes a society that is dehumanizing and very unpleasant. Ray Bradbury had two small children at the time the novel was written, so he could not focus enough to write at home. Instead, he wrote the novel on a rental typewriter in the basement of UCLA’s Lawrence Clark Powell Library. It took Ray only nine day stop finish the book. He was inspired to write this novel by learning about the burning of books. When Ray was 15, Adolf Hitler burned books in the streets of Berlin. Then Ray heard about the