One theme that can be seen throughout Fahrenheit 451 is the importance of life in the face of death. This theme can be seen in this passage on page 137, “The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on it’s axis and it was busy burning the years and the people away, without any help from him.” Life and death, along with creation and destruction, appear frequently throughout 451’s pages. Mildred, attempting suicide, on page 17, “You took all the pills in your bottle last night.” The Old Woman with the Books, burning herself, on page 37, “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the match against the railing.” Clarisse, Beatty, the bombing of the entire city. In the novel’s
