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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to find books and burn them. A short while into the story it becomes apparent that Montag already has a certain unease about his job, when he meets a new neighbor of his, Clarisse McClellan, who makes him realize the discomfort he's been feeling. He and the other people around him, including his boss, the Fire Chief, become doubtful of his devotion to his job. This book follows Montag on his journey as he discovers the impotance of literature in a world where knowledge is strictly prohibited.
The characters are for the most part non-charismatic and without enthusiasm, with the exception of Clarisse who, having served her purpose, dies within the first few pages. It's a shame, but it is balanced out by the introduction of an old professor named Faber. Both these characters act as guides for Montag as he becomes self-aware and abandons his ignorance.
This is the first book in a long time that has made me really think, about what the book means, about what the future will look like, about a life without books. It is an extraordinary piece of writing about a repressive society caught up in its own rules and ideas. Reading through it and hearing as the Chief describes to Montag the history, the process of how slowly, books went from being solely for intellectuals, to being superfluous and completely replaced by television, and finally to being illegal, hits very close to home. While the situations in this books are very extreme, it brings out ideas of this two-dimensional world that doesn't seem so far away.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Farenheit 451 was overall a good book. It did have some strong points as well as its weak points as well. The characters in the novel I thought were very well developed and gave enough detail to make you get a picture in your mind about what he/she looked like. The character that I thought was the best developed out of them all was Guy Montag. He was described physically but also mentally so you could really understand what he was thinking in certain cituations, like how he goes against his heritage of a fireman and decides to start reading books. Guy was a fireman, and firemen in these times burned books. The book says " First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin" (64)
I also like the technology of the novel. The technology was very relavent to what is reaslistic. The ear peaces that they wore to listen to the radio could become very popular in the near future. When Clarisse McClellan said "...did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? But cars started rushing by so quickly they had to stretch the advertising out so it would last" (39). This shows what society was and that technology got so fast that they had to change billboards.
The setting of the novel was developed well also. The setting was in a futuristic city, which seemed very high paced, like I would envision most large cities to become in the future.
I did not like the fact that people did not have there own feelings about things. They never came up with there own ideas and just seemed to go through everyday monotonously. I do not agree that this is what the future holds and that people pride themselves on having there own ideas.
I also disagreed with that nobody likes books and doesn't read them anymore. I feel that it was not a good idea to say that nobody reads and most of the people don't mind that. I would think that if people enjoyed reading like the group led by Granger, there would be violent revolts. When Mildred says "...Why should I read? What for..." (101). It shows that people had no desire to read or what reading had in store for them.
Overall the book was very good and I suggest that you should read it if you are in the mood for an action novel.
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Summary: A Future Look on Todays Society
Review: When I first began to read the book I was excited at the idea of a fireman's job was to burn books, not read them. As I read more I realized that this is what is happening to today's society but not to the same level of watching TV and not reading as much. People watch more TV than ever before and read less. You can ask anyone about any TV show and they probably have seen it. Reading books has become a inferior form of entertainment since the invention of TV and radios and other forms of entertainment.
Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman who doesn't any longer put out fires, but starts the fires. The job of the fireman is to burn all books because they are illegal and not wanted in society. People have turned to wall TV's or parlor walls and seashell radios that fit in your ear for entertainment and pleasure and enjoyment so they don't have to have feelings and choose between right and wrong. People no longer care about their government or even their on children. Montag thinks that everyone is happy with their chosen society but he meets a girl named Clarisse who is a teenager that moved in next door to him. She talks to Montag about what firemen used to do and Montag couldn't believe what she was telling him. She asked him questions that made him think which he didn't like. She confused him but he listened to what she had to say and walked home from work with her everyday.
A few things that changed Montag's views of their so called happy society was when he found his wife lying on her bed having overdosed on her sleeping pills which could have killed her. These men came in to help her by cleaning out her stomach and purifying her blood stream and then they were on their way. Montag realized that this was an everyday event for these men and many people have tried this suicide attempt. Montag understands that the people may enjoy their entertainment but they are still unhappy. He and his wife were even unhappy and he was going to change this. A second reason was when they were called on duty to burn some old ladies books. The police usually would come and arrest the person committing the crimes but they had not come yet and the old lady wouldn't let them burn her books. The firemen covered the illegal books in kerosene and the lady actually lit the match that burnt her and her house down because she didn't want to live without her books. Montag didn't understand why someone would die for their books. What was so good about them? He got fired from his job for having books and ran away to try to change society. He met up with other men who used to be professors at a college and they decided to leave their city and try to start again somewhere else. As they left a bomb was dropped on their city and they saw the remains of the city and turned around to go and start their new society.
I really liked this book because I can relate to it. People in our society are reading less and enjoy the entertainment of television and radios just having fun in life. I don't think it will ever get as extreme as written in the novel but is closely related to it. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Farenheit 0! HAHAHA!
Review: Stop the fires you wierd pyromaniac! Chill! I mean, if you are angry, go to anger management class! Stupid Montag. I, Zeus, hate you because you are stupid and can't make up your frickin' mind! HAHAHA! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL! (you get to visit my bro, Hades, who also happens to be a pyro. You guys will like eachother.) Basically, there is this whole stupid salamander theme that makes no sense whatsoever! I oughta zap you for that, Bradbury. You definitely weren't my idea. And also, you don't have to be such a downer all the time. I mean come on, all your books are depressing and pointless, because you have like no solution to the whole vague, stupid problem of the story. I didn't even know what the problem or solution or anything was. What the hell? You know, the end was stupid, too, and led off all pointless and wierd. I half fell asleep reading this! (Because, contrary to myths, gods can't snap their fingers and have read the book. We gotta put effort into it! Damn!) Anyways, you better do better next time, Bradbury, or else! (And hey, this ain't a threat- a threat is if I strike you without you knowing why. So...ha!)
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a important and influential book. When written in 1953 he didn't know he was going to predict today's society. Guy Montag, the protagonist, loved his work as a firefighter. He seemed to liked nothing better than to start a fire on a pile of books and watch the pages burn. Until, one day he meets his new neighbor Clarisse, a young girl to whom is educated about the world. They began talking and she asked Montag "Are you happy?". After returning home from meeting his new neighbor he looks at his wife, in bed and listening to "little seashells" in her ears which entertains her mind during the night, The author says "he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." he realizes that indeed he isn't happy. Montag realizes his wife has tried to overdose on sleeping pill and she is taking to the hospital and revived. To much for Montag to handle , he becomes observant . Montag and Clarisse begin meeting up everyday and walking to the subway together and sharing and talking about each other. When Clarisse one day disappears, Montag starts hiding books in his home. His wife Mildred does not agree and she turns him in. Forcing Montag to set fire to his own house. When Montag knew he was caught by his boss Captain Beatty he threw fire on them and fled to avoid arrest, Montag now a delinquent joined a group of scholars whom were outlawed because they kept the contents of books in their heads. I liked this novel because it is very honest, it shows how the society does not always change for the people, but the people can change for the society. You will never see a time or a place where everyone agrees with the same thing and this novel is a great interpretation of a two sided belief ( books vs. no books). The novel shows what censorship can do to a society, and the importance of free speech. People must learn to accept different views, whether they agree totally with them or not.
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Summary: Pointless!
Review: Dear Reader,
This book was as pointless as it was boring. The basic message was "The world is doomed because no one reads and you are powerless to stop it. Your such a wimp that all you will do to protect your rights is cower in your stupid crappy corner realizing I was right as they burn this book. Then all your macho, idiotic, brainwashed peers will be happy and you will be dead or old and senile. I'm the only smart person left and you have no willpower, you big fat ugly jerk." The whole "utopia gone wrong" is pretty much hypocritical, anyway. If the whole world was doomed then their books wouldn't be published and their life's work would be demolished into their own execution, which would null thier point about people's inability to say what they believe.Sincerely,
Me
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Imagine you live in a world where no one thought. No one thinks about their job, no one thinks about their rights, no one thinks about their families, and no one thinks about their education. Imagine, there were no worries in the world. Does this appeal to you? Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a man coming to know the destructive society he is living in. His culture is such that if you own a book, you are burnt along with the book. For people who read are corrupted, their minds have been filled with silly ideas and shouldn't be able to spread them to others. People aren't educated well, and have no opinion. This leads people into a culture where thought is prohibited. He meets a girl who opens up his eyes into "a past where people [were] not afraid"(on the back of the Book). The story outlines the struggle that came with his recognition and and a changed, happier Montag. I loved the book, and think it taught many lessons. Although the world Montag lives in is not alike to ours in that our society prohibits us to think, I would still say that we are on our way to it. This book should be read by our entire populous. It helped me realize the blinding culture that we live in. I rate this book 5 stars. Good writing. Good themes. Good story. Amazing lesson.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451 - medium difficulty
Review: First off, I would like to tell you why I picked this book. I picked it because I like books that have the future in it. When I first looked at the headings for this book, I was really undecided, but when I went to amazon.com I fould out that this book took place in the future with the firefighter and his troubles. I thought, "Well Hey". Maybe I would actually be able to raed the book and see things differently and my thought was right. It was a book about a firefighter named Montag, who instead of putting fires out, he sets them. When I first found out I thought to myself, "well thats pointless, why would you set a fire and just let it burn like nothing happened?" But after I read on through the pages I found out that they dont just burn houses for no reason, they burn them because of books. If there are books in the house and they get a call, they will go and start the house on fire. One night Montag was setting a fire and an old lady was sitting there saying something. Montag tried to get the lady out of the house, but she wouldn't go. That made Montag thing, and me also, "why would you want to die in a fire?" Montag grabeed a book, hid it under his arm, and left. After that fire, Montag went home to his wife Mildred. (Theres something weird in the book, the walls are TVs and the TV characters on shows are "the Relatives"). When Montag got home, he hid the book under his pillow and he barely slept that night, and when he woke up in the morning, his wife Mildred was watching TV, or should I say talking to the relatives, and he told mildred he wasnt feeling well, and if the cheif comes and asks for him to tell him that he wasn't feeling well and would go to work. Mildred thought that it was unusual because Montag is never sick. Montag asked mildred to get him some advil and turn down the relatives. Mildred refused because she didnt believe Montag at all. the door monitor went off and it was the cheif, Montag told mildred to tell the chief "I dont know, I dont want to talk about anything" Mildred of course let him in and the chief had a clue that Montag had a book and that's why he didnt feel good. So the chief played it off the way I pictured it, was like this, "I know that the fire last night wasnt' so pleasant, but when people have books and they know it is against the law, but on the other hand if the fireman had the book for more than 24 hours, then we would have to burn his house". That made Montag kind of scared, after the chief left, he said I must tell you something Mildred, after he went and pulled 8 books from the light fixture in the hall, mildred didn't know what to do and went ballistic. But then she sat down to read a book or two thinking it would help, all of a sudden tthe phone rang and she answered. it was her friend and she told Montag she was going out with her friend and Montag wås shocked. But then Montag remembered, "I remember a guy a long time ago I was sitting in the park, he would carry a bible around, and he told me that if i ever needed help to call me and he handed me a card." Montag went dashing around the house finding the card. He finally found it and he called him, and his name was Faber.
For the rest of the story you must read the book. it is actually kind of interesting if you think about it. Maybe 60 years from now, maybe firefighters will acttually start fires instead of putting them out! As for me, the book was an okay book. I have read better but it was interesting.
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Summary: An overrated Book
Review: I thought that Fahrenheit 451 was an ok book at best. I did think that the plot was very creative, but very far-fetched at the same time. While the fact that I am not a big fan of fiction books that stretch the truth may have some say in my decision, I was still disappointed with other things. I thought that the author did a poor job of mixing up his vocabulary as well as using very little detail to describe things. If the author wants to write a book about the future, he needs to do a good job of telling us what he wants or thinks it will be like. I had heard a lot of good things about this book and that is the reason I decided to read it. In the end I was very disappointed with the book and wouldn't recommend it to most people. There were some things in the book that I enjoyed though such as certain quotes. Here is one quote that I enjoyed: "Only the 'family' is people."(Page 84). I believe that this means that only people are real, books are not.
So in conclusion, I believe that those people who get into crazy future books may enjoy it, but I personally was disappointed. My expectations may have been too high, but either way its only my opinion.
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Summary: Holy Macaroni!
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is quite simply an amazing book. Ray Bradbury draws a picture of a futuristic society in which books are banned-all books. Then he uses creative, real-like characters to present it to you. Each and every character has his or her own uniqueness. The opening line-"It was a pleasure to burn" is a perfect way to start off a book about burning books. I especially enjoyed the character Clarisse McClellan. It was she who introduced Montag to a different kind of world; one in which he could look at everything with more then just his eyes. The part of the book in which Clarisse was letting raindrops fall into her mouth was quite amusing. When Clarisse and Montag part, Montag tilted his head backward and let the raindrops fall in his mouth. I really think the character Clarisse was a great addition to the novel. It helps the readers feel the words of the book all the way up to the surprising ending. The overall quality of this book is great. I would recommend this book to almost anyone. I do, however, think if you are not at all into futuristic, fictional books then this is not the one for you. I would give this novel four out of five stars.
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