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Description edit
This book is based on dystopia. This book is really dark and limited place. Also, the characters have different characteristics.
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Summary edit
As I told you in description, this book is based on dystopia. Reading books, having emotions, and thinking are banned in this world. Whenever someone found the books, firemen came and use flamethrower to burn the books. The vice captain among the firemen, Montag, was the best firemen. The... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Guy Montag: The vice captain among the firemen. He got inspiration of emotions by girl names Clarrise. He started to read many books. However, he finally got caught.
- Clarrise: A girl who's very weird and unfriendly to her friends. She is the most special kid among the society of her friends. She has her feelings and she also thinks widely. She reads many books.
- Captain Beatty: The captain of the firemen. Cynical and very strict about books. Beatty got killed by Montag.
- Mildred Montag: Montag’s brittle, sickly looking wife. She is obsessed with watching television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their marriage or her feelings.
- Faber: A retired English professor whom Montag encountered a year before the book opens. Faber still possesses a few precious books and aches to have more.
- Granger: The leader of the “Book People,” the group of hobo intellectuals Montag finds in the country. Granger is intelligent, patient, and confident in the strength of the human spirit.
Quotes edit
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“He tried not to look at her mouth, because then Beatty might turn and read what was there,too" (Ray 59)”
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“"The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness" (Ray 99)”
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“"He carried the books in his hands" (Ray 123)”
Guy Montag
Setting & Locations edit
The Setting of this book is in Dystopia.
- Montag's House: montag's house was the place where Montag hid his books. Also, Mildred almost lived in there for every day with her TV
- Fire Station: The house of Salamander and Phoenix. Montag and Beatty go to the place that books were found from this fire station. They ride something different from fire truck. It was more like to a FIRE Truck
- Fable's House: Fable kept his house sealed. He always locks his house and never let someone come in.
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