Fahrenheit 451 Summary

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About the book The main theme of this book is about book burning. The novel focus on Guy Montag a professional of book burner, he started fire instead of putting them out. He was called to burn book that made by Mrs. Hudson, she want to die rather than leave her library, Guy Montag was haunted by thinking about living in a world that have no book so he keep some of her books. He began to read a book in the first time of his life, he seek out the counsel of an old man name Faber, together they agree to copy a salvaged Bible. Guy Montag boss at the fire house, beatty, and senses his disenchantment and interrogates him until their confrontationis interrupted by a fire call. On he final section of the book Fahrenheit 451 find Guy Montag seizing his own fate for the first time. He trying to avenge himself, there he find a resistance force of reader, each one responsible for …show more content…
The death of a stranger by fire in the first third becomes the destruction of Guy Montag own house in a second. For a book once pigeonholed as science fiction, this structural savvy is one more proof that Ray Bradbury started out writing for the pulps and wound up writing for the ages. (Fahrenheit 451)

About the author Ray Bradbury full name was Ray Douglas Bradbury, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois into a family that once included a seventeenth-century Salem woman tried for witchcraft. The Bardbury drove across the country to Los Angeles in 1934, with young Ray piling out their jalopy at every stop to plunder the local library search for L. Frank Baum Oz books. In 1936, Ray Bradbury experience a rite of passage familliar to most science fiction readers, at a bookstore in Hollywood he

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