“Lukas Matthews
5TH Hour Reading
Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
The other firemen were already in the attic, and books were flying down the stairs. One fell into Montag’s hands, and he had time to read just a sentence, then he dropped it. After a few more books fell into his open hands, he closed one and hid it beneath his armpit. He knew it was illegal, but took the risk.
That is one of the scenes in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a fireman named Guy Montag. His job it to start fires on books, and the house they were in. Each night, he’d come home to his wife, Mildred, after a long day of work with Beatty and the other firemen. As he watched his wife listen to people in far off places in her seashell radio, he wondered what the voices were saying. Then he would go walk with a girl named Clarisse some nights, until she disappeared. After she had vanished, he talked with a professor named Faber. One night, he came home and found his wife had taken over thirty sleeping pills. But some medical guys came with a special machine and fixed her, she was just a little hungry in the morning. After a mission where Montag steals a book, he gets “sick” and fire chief Beatty comes over to talk with him about books and the history of firemen. Montag then meets Faber, an old professor who tells him about why books are hated and feared.
The climax of the story is too suspenseful for me to tell you all of it, but I’ll give you a hint. The fire bell rings, and the firemen stop in front of a house where he is associated… you’ll have to read it to find out where.
I’d sat this book is “homey” in the sense that Montag is an average person. Anyone who likes sci fi will love this book, even though it takes a while for the climax to build, but overall it was a well-constructed great book, it deserves 4 of 5 stars.
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Lukas M wrote this review Friday, October 9, 2009.
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