Fahrenheit 451 Book Comparison

Fahrenheit 451, originally published in 1953, is considered one of the best works of Ray Bradbury, a well-known writer for his sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and mystery writings. This book is especially interesting and fun to read for those who’d love to get some wild and futuristic sci-fi novels. It is definitely different from any other book I’ve read because of it’s one of a kind setting and plot. Even though the book may seem boring at first, believe it or not, it makes a heart race as the story slowly reaches the climax.
The story is set in a made-up, futuristic world, where books are banned from reading, and any book discovered will be burned. Who burns them? The firefighters. And Guy Montag, the protagonist/the main character of this story, is one of them. Throughout the book, he battles himself to make a choice between keeping what he has right now - his ignorant wife, his firefighter job, and his blank life, or to risk his life to save human culture from extinction.
This book is distinct from any other book I’ve read

because of its uniqueness, which is pretty much everything about it: it’s plot, character, and setting. The plot is very obvious - the protagonist challenges the powerful government to save books from extinction, which will seem boring to some of us. But Bradbury apprises the story in a way that will slowly make you want to read more and find out what will happen next. This book doesn’t have a lot of characters, so it’s not hard to identify who’s talking and who’s not (even though most of the time it’s just Montag talking or thinking to himself). Which makes it stands out even more compared to other novels with so many characters that you have no idea who he/she is. The author also uses foil among his characters to provide striking contrasts between two female characters that the protagonist has met to interest the readers even more. Clarisse McClellan, a 17-year-old girl who reads inspires him while his wife, who is frightened by the act of reading, stresses him out.
Despite of some of the essential writing elements the author had put in his novel, what I appreciate more is the author’s diction and voice, especially when the story reaches the climax (which was about the end and was super fast-paced). And I realize that just a good book can make a person anxious. Every word I read becomes a heartbeat of mine. The faster I read, the faster my heart beats. The moment I finished the book, I literally had to take a deep breath because I’ve been holding my breath for so long to find out what will happen next. Moreover, I’m most impressed by the author’s wild imagination since he wrote a book about a world where books are burned. By creating a world like such, he hints the readers how important books can be with comparisons between the wonderful, book-filled world that we live in now and the silly, ironic world that Guy Montag had to bear.
Not only is the book just a sci-fi novel, it is made into a movie in 1966.

I don’t like the movie as much as I like the book because the movie doesn’t really demonstrate the futuristic world that the author depicted. It disappoints me because, like I’ve said earlier, the setting of the story is what interested me the most. But the movie, unfortunately, was not able to convey it. And I didn’t expect the movie to create a futuristic world either because back in 1966, technology was not advanced. Aside from technological issues, there are some changes in the movie. In the book, the girl who inspires Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, dies due to a speeding car, but in the movie, she still lives. I personally prefer the book’s way because I think Clarisse’s death was a key factor in leading to the main conflict of the book. Overall, I think that the book is far more interesting than the movie because the book is just more descriptive and

powerful.
In sum, if anyone is interested in some exciting and classical sci-fi, Fahrenheit 451 is your pick. It’s got a super creative and unique setting, a couple interesting characters, and lots of exciting scenes. That’s all it takes to be a good, enjoyable sci-fi novel. And Fahrenheit 451 has it all.