-FAHRENHEIT 451- Brian Park 2014MAY
Fahrenheit 451 is a fiction that happens in
the future that received a national book award. The book’s title is the
temperature at which paper burns. In this society, firemen burn books instead
of putting the fire off because books are illegal products in this society.
People are addicted to TVs and not happy about their lives. People are
brainwashed by the government and have no emotions like robots and it is very
similar from our society. In our world, people don't talk much. Instead, they
watch television or use their phones. The government wants to control the world
by making the citizens suffer at some places in our world and in Montag's
society. In this book, the government kills innocent people to make people
think they are strong and never fail.
Montag is the main character in this book. He is a
firefighter but, he tries to save books because of his friend Clarisse. He has
a wife called Mildred who spends most of the day in front of television. She is
very disappointed about this society. His boss Captain Beatty thinks that books
should disappear. Faber used to be a professor and tries to help Montag from
danger he has.
Montag was returning home from the fire
station. While he was walking he met a woman. She was strange. Her name was
Clarisse McClellan. She liked to talk and is very active. In her society
talking and being active are not considered social. They became close friends
and came back home. When he was home, Mildred was lying on the bed and had
eaten sleeping pills. She didn’t have only one or two. She had a whole jar so
she was almost going to die. She was trying to commit suicide. Montag took
Mildred to a hospital. She had a surgery but, something was strange. There were
no doctors but technicians because the doctors were working in other places.
There were too many people who were committing suicide.
One day, Montag met Clarisse again. She
talked about herself.
Montag was going to burn an old lady’s
books. While he was burning the books, he found a book that fell in to his
arms. He took it and burned the rest of them. He stole a book even if his job
was to destroy books. Montag then tried to take the lady out. However, she sain
that she wanted to disappear with her house so she finally passed away. Montag
heard that Clarisse died by a car accident. However, Montag thought that it
wasn’t. He thought that she was murdered by the government.
Another day, Beatty tried to visit Montag.
Montag became very afraid because he had books under his pillows. If Beatty saw
the books, Montag would get a huge punishment. He tried to give excuses but
that didn’t work much. When Beatty was in, he told why he thought books should
be destroyed.
Montag met Faber who used to be a
professor. He agreed to help Montag with his plan. He wanted to hide books in
other firemen’s house and make them punished and make more copies of the book
that he got. Faber gave a seashell to Montag to communicate with him. Like a
walkie-talkie. Faber was going to St. Louis to get a copier and get copies.
There were Mildred’s friends in Montag’s
house but Montag made them annoyed and showed the poetry that he has stolen. The
ladies left because they were frightened and said they never wanted to meet him
again.
Montag was going back to work and the
alarm rang. The firemen were driving to the destination. The place they stopped
was Montag’s house. Mildred was the informant. Beatty saw the shell that he was
putting on his ears. Montag noticed that he is trying to hurt Faber. So, Montag
killed Beatty.
When Montag went to Faber’s, he tried to
escape and run away from the police. He took dirty clothes, whiskey, and a
suitcase. It would make him not like Montag. When he came back home, the whole
thing were gone and the police were searching for Montag. Some men came and
helped him escape. They showed Montag a screen. The police were trying to kill
an innocent man. They couldn’t tell the citizens that they failed. After, the
men talked about them and what is happening. They were all named with names of
authors and books. They were trying to remember the mistakes that they’re
society and the government made.
I really liked this book because it is very
interesting and gave me lessons such as it’s never right to take care only of
themselves when everyone are suffering. It has events that were exciting such
as when Montag was trying to escape the city and have sad moments when Clarisse
passed away. I was very satisfied to read this kind of book so; I want to
recommend this book to all the people who has the ability to read this book. It
impressed me in some parts such as when Montag risks his life to safe Faber. I
think it is a very good book because there is a movie called Fahrenheit 451. If
there is a movie, this means that the director and lots of people love this
story.
