I write mainly on books and games, though I might try a film review next time I see a really good/ba...
I write mainly on books and games, though I might try a film review next time I see a really good/bad film. I also write on dooyoo. Please feel free to rate and comment. Theresa : )
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Fahrenheit 451 is a look into a future where books are condemned as dangerous and are therefore burnt. Montag is the central character in the book and is a fireman, but not in the sense we understand. Montag is paid to burn books not to stop fires, there is no need to stop house fires now anyway as all houses are fireproof.
Even after you have finished reading the book, Bradbury's horrifying version of the future hovers in the mind, to be contemplated over and over again. The story plays on fears that most people have and works them effectively. Teenagers running riot in hideously overpowered cars and pedestrians are frowned upon (as is driving at 40mph). Relationships contain no emotion, and are not expected to by Montag or anyone else, the only exception to this is Clarisse. She is labelled crazy and sent to a psychiatrist because she doesn`t go to the Fun Parks or watch the Parlour walls.
Clarisse questions Montag about his profession and through the conversations with him she reveals herself to be a reader and challenges Montag to read and decide if it is such a terrible crime himself. When Montag gets home he finds that his wife, Mildred, has taken an overdose and needs to have her stomach pumped.
Montag then has to burn the house of a woman who was found to have books, the one thing that`s different in this burning is that the woman is still in the house when the firemen arrive and she refuses to leave even going so far as to set fire to the kerosene soaked house herself. This has a profound affect on Montag so he steals a book and starts to read it later that night. The book frees his mind and he realises how wrong what he has been doing is, he becomes an avid reader and is torn between his duty as a fireman and his newfound understanding of books and the world around him.
Montag realises how restricted and controlled everyone`s lives are. The rest of the book is about how this affects him and what he does after choosing between his duty and his newly found mindset. The end of the book is very exciting and involves the Mechanical Hound, which is a machine that can be programmed to hunt and kill a particular person from the combination of chemicals in that person`s body, it's a tireless stalker and escape is almost impossible.
This is a very short book and a quick read, which is not surprising as it was originally made up of a collection of short stories written by Ray Bradbury, but the ideas in the book do persist in the mind for a while after reading it. I read this book in one go because I found the story very interesting and wanted to know what happened in the end. I`m not sure if the ending is supposed to be happy or not because although it did have an element of hope in it as far as the continuation of books and ideas went. But in the end Montag has lost his family and has to face the idea that the job he has been doing all his life was destroying the only thing he now lives for. Fahrenheit 451 is an interesting book, as much for the ideas behind it, as the story its self.
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