Brief Summary Of Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 Essay
The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury was about a fireman name Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman of the 50’s in Los Angeles, California. As you know firemen are supposing to prevent and put out fires. Montag on the other hand does the complete opposite. Him and his fellow firemen start fires and burn house down. In the book “Fahrenheit 451” Montag meets a girl named Clarisse. He finds her very odd and different from the rest of society. She likes to take walks and read and do everything society doesn't do. Everyday he with would meet with Clarisse and talk about the emptiness of their society with their obsessions with television. Montag goes to meet up with Clarisse as usual and realizes she's gone. She never came

to see him. Montag finds out she was in a car accident and passed away. He was devastated and felt like he’d lost a best friend. After Clarisse’s passing Montag felt like he needed to do justice to his society. Montag would ask around about the origin of the book burning so he could get more background history so he could learn how to end it. During the next book during raid Montag decides to take one of the old lady’s books rather than burn it. The old lady who owned the house as well as the books sets herself and the books on fire rather then getting arrested. When Montag decides to stay home from work due to feeling sick his boss, Captain Beatty, shows up at his house and tells him how firemen became book burners. He explained to Montag that books were censored in order to avoid offending any particular group in society. In the end we felt like books weren’t necessary for the world and weren’t for their use. Montag then later confesses to his wife Mildred about the several books he’s been hiding. He starts to read to her to prove that books are so much more useful and interesting than television but Mildred is confused on why he's so fascinated by books. Montag feels like he has no one who understands him now that Clarisse is gone so he goes and lists a retired English teacher named Faber. Faber explains the importance and value books contain and that society just doesn’t understand the enjoyment of reading and soon the war that society created will destroy society itself. Montag goes back to and does his usual thing at work until the alarm goes off. He starts heading about with the crew until he realizes that the alarm was sent from his house. Mildred told Beatty about Montag’s books. Montage quickly burns all the books with his flamethrower. Beatty demands Montag to tell him the owner of the books so he can trace him down and arrest him. Montag decides to kill Beatty with his flamethrower. Shocked with all that happened Montag takes off running for Faber’s. Then he hears the announcement that war has been declared. Bradbury’s message in this book and to his readers is that individuals have power. In Montag’s society power is stripped from everyone and their power is their thoughts and knowledge. Montag’s words are proven to be true. “A time to keep silence and a time to speak."(Bradbury165) Bradbury’s conclusions say individuals can always find "the time to speak" even in the most challenging conditions.