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Fahrenheit 451
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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What a sad world that is depicted in this novel where people burn books and the value of a human life is very little
Bradbury has always been one of my favorite authors, although I haven't read this before until now. Surprisingly, such a short book took me such a long time to finish, and I believe it was mainly because of the wording and the intelligence needed to follow along.
This isn't even book censorship, this is flat out destroying anything with pages! I don't know if it's more terrifying to see a civilization where everyone is fine not questioning a single thing they're told, or the fact that any and all books ever written can only live in a person's memory. It's like playing a game of telephone to retain & spread the purpose towards a revolution.
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