Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 150120145X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Solari said "It was a pleasure to burn.". In a future society, books are forbidden and "firemen" responsible for burning the remaining titles. That's the job of one Guy Montag, but he begins to question his role as he gets in contact with a teenager who reads secretly. And he becomes himself a crimina. Ethan said "There must be something in books". "There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."My first encounter with Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit "There must be something in books" Ethan "There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."My first encounter with Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 came during my junior year of. 51 came during my junior year of. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury MJ James Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyRating: **** (4 stars)Book length: 227 pagesGenre: Science FictionIs there still any value in books? We can access information just by speaking into a phone. We can turn on a television set and know that is happening anywhere in th
Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including
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 then 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. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed n