Fahrenheit 451…The Temperature At Which Books Burn.

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Term Paper Title	Fahrenheit 451…The Temperature At Which Books Burn.
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Fahrenheit 451…The Temperature at Which Books Burn.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Random House. 1953.
Fahrenheit 451 is a classic example of novels written in the science fiction genre of the early fifties. Its author, Ray Bradbury, attempts to describe a possible future that would be worse than the concurrent one. It is a future with the world coming down upon its inhabitants. Despite this alarming possibility, it is still a very interesting novel to read. It has a very unique story line with rich detail describing what life is like in their world. Here then is a short summary of the reader’s journey to a land of strange horrors and mysteries, a land in another dimension, the land of Fahrenheit 451.
Imagine being ordered to burn books, and to burn the houses that held them. This describes the life of Guy Montag, the novel’s main character. He was a fireman. Firemen were paid to burn books because people believed that the words written inside were nonsense and irrelevant babble. One day on his way back from work he met a girl, Clarisse, a new neighbour, who told him about a time in the past when books were legal and popular. The next day at work, the alarm sent the firemen to an old house where an old woman lived. When the firemen where about to burn the house, the old lady insisted that she be burned with the books because she preferred not to be persecuted by the world. The event prompted Guy to begin to collect books, taking one at subsequent exterminations. He did this secretively without even telling his wife. Several days later he woke up sick in bed. Suspecting Montag was not really sick, his boss, the fire chief came to visit him. When the chief arrived he told Montag about the origin of the firemen. On another day when Guy came home from work, he found friends of his wife gathered in the house. When the women say him holding a book, Guy read it out loud them. The women were horrified. The next day at work when the alarm rang, the firemen went to his house. He was told that his wife’s friends had tipped them off. Guy was ordered to burn his house with a flame-thrower....

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