Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury. New York: Ballantine Books, 1950. 179 pg.

This book has a couple, Montag and Mildred. Montag is a fireman and Mildred works around the house. In this book firemen are suppose to burn books because the government thinks that if people read they wouldn’t do anything else. However a book falls into Montag’s hands.

Montag, a man who works for the fire department that causes fires by burning books instead of putting out fires. One day they got a call and they go to an old lady’s house. They find one thousand books in her attic. They throw them down stairs and spray kerosene on them. Then Montag tells the lady to leave but she wouldn’t move. So they burn down the house with her in it. So he takes a book and stuffs it in his coat. He takes it home and reads it. Then he finds out his wife has twenty books hidden in the vent. Montag doesn’t understand books so he goes to a professor named Fabor. Professor Fabor teaches him how to understand books. He starts to read books, and believes that books contain facts about people. His captain, Captain Beatty, finds out about it and warns Montag about having a book. Montag soon likes to read books and wonders off to a town where people like to read and the people remember the books.

I thought that this is a very unique book because it talks about burning books. I think that they should have added why they started burning books. I would recommend this book for people around the age of fifteen. I would rate this book an eight out of ten cause it had my attention through the whole story.

Review By Kris A.