Book review
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
By Ben Stein
Do you like reading books, what do you think would happen in your life if books were banished. If you would want to see what would happen then you need to check out Fahrenheit 451.
The book Fahrenheit 451is about a character named Guy Montag. Guy is fireman, but not the kind of fireman that we have in our society. He is a fireman who burns books. This book takes place in the future. People in this futuristic society don't read books, in fact, reading books were illegal. On a different subject, the people who lived there, rarely went out side and watched the nature outside them, they seldomly were by themselves, or thought independently or really ever have conversations that actually meant something. What they did instead was they drove very fast, watched a lot of T. V. on those T.V sets that are real small and are on the side of streets just to advertise. They also listen to the radio a lot on Seashell Radios which are attached to their ears.
Soon He Montag meets a 16 going on 17 year old girl, named Clarisse McClellan. She makes Guy realize that his life is really empty. After a while He really starts to see some bad things happen. First, Guy’s wife Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a whole bunch of sleeping pills. Then; later he gets an alarm that and older lady has a big stash of books. When he wants to do his job of burning them, the old lady asks to be burned with her books. Then even worse stuff happens, about three days later he hears bad news that Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and killed.
After all of these events happen to him he starts to read the book that he has stolen and stashed in an air conditioning vent. After a while of Guy not showing up for work Guy’s boss or fire chief Beatty visits him at his house. Beatty tells Guy that this is 100% normal for a fireman to wonder about books and wonder what they are about. So Beatty tells Him the whole story about how books got to be banished. He told him that books started to offend people and so books all started to look the same since the writers didn’t want to offend anybody. So instead of insulting the government, they decided to burn books. Beatty gives him 24 hours to read the book and see if it has any meaning before they have to be burned. Guy being overwhelmed by all the reading, he asks his wife Mildred to help him, but, she would rather watch T.V. instead of helping out her husband, and wonders why he would even want to read books.
Then he remembers seeing a retired English professor at the park one day. His name was Faber, he goes to visit Faber, just to see if he knows anything about what Guy is reading. Faber says that not only does he have to read the book, but he also has to think about what the author was thinking when he wrote the book. So Faber creates a printer that he can recreate books on. And Guy will steal more books.
So if you want to see the ending of if he gets caught….. Or if he doesn’t get caught….. You will just have to read the book.
I recommend this book to kids ages 11 through 15. In my experience reading this book was really good, it had a good story line, a good little adventures moments. If you like the action-adventure or good plain ol’ book you will LOVE this book. I rate it 9/10.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
By Ben Stein
Do you like reading books, what do you think would happen in your life if books were banished. If you would want to see what would happen then you need to check out Fahrenheit 451.
The book Fahrenheit 451is about a character named Guy Montag. Guy is fireman, but not the kind of fireman that we have in our society. He is a fireman who burns books. This book takes place in the future. People in this futuristic society don't read books, in fact, reading books were illegal. On a different subject, the people who lived there, rarely went out side and watched the nature outside them, they seldomly were by themselves, or thought independently or really ever have conversations that actually meant something. What they did instead was they drove very fast, watched a lot of T. V. on those T.V sets that are real small and are on the side of streets just to advertise. They also listen to the radio a lot on Seashell Radios which are attached to their ears.
Soon He Montag meets a 16 going on 17 year old girl, named Clarisse McClellan. She makes Guy realize that his life is really empty. After a while He really starts to see some bad things happen. First, Guy’s wife Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a whole bunch of sleeping pills. Then; later he gets an alarm that and older lady has a big stash of books. When he wants to do his job of burning them, the old lady asks to be burned with her books. Then even worse stuff happens, about three days later he hears bad news that Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and killed.
After all of these events happen to him he starts to read the book that he has stolen and stashed in an air conditioning vent. After a while of Guy not showing up for work Guy’s boss or fire chief Beatty visits him at his house. Beatty tells Guy that this is 100% normal for a fireman to wonder about books and wonder what they are about. So Beatty tells Him the whole story about how books got to be banished. He told him that books started to offend people and so books all started to look the same since the writers didn’t want to offend anybody. So instead of insulting the government, they decided to burn books. Beatty gives him 24 hours to read the book and see if it has any meaning before they have to be burned. Guy being overwhelmed by all the reading, he asks his wife Mildred to help him, but, she would rather watch T.V. instead of helping out her husband, and wonders why he would even want to read books.
Then he remembers seeing a retired English professor at the park one day. His name was Faber, he goes to visit Faber, just to see if he knows anything about what Guy is reading. Faber says that not only does he have to read the book, but he also has to think about what the author was thinking when he wrote the book. So Faber creates a printer that he can recreate books on. And Guy will steal more books.
So if you want to see the ending of if he gets caught….. Or if he doesn’t get caught….. You will just have to read the book.
I recommend this book to kids ages 11 through 15. In my experience reading this book was really good, it had a good story line, a good little adventures moments. If you like the action-adventure or good plain ol’ book you will LOVE this book. I rate it 9/10.
