Fahrenheit 451
In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy
Montag meets a girl, Clarisse McClellan, who will tell him something that will
change his life forever. Guy is a fireman, who ignites fires instead of
putting them out. He burns house where books have been found. The reason
that these houses along with the books are burned is because the
government of this society does not want its people to read books. He then
talks to a girl named Clarisse, who tells him of a past where people were not
punished for
reading books, but instead encouraged to do so. Ray Bradbury chose the
title, Fahrenheit 451 for this novel because he says, that is the temperature
at which books burn. The original title, The Fire Man, was chosen to identify
Guy Montag, because he was a "fireman."
Guy learns to be more open-minded through out the sourse of this
novel. When he first meets Clarisse she says, " Strange I heard once that a
long time ago, houses......
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