Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Owning books in Fahrenheit 451 is illegal, it lets people become free of thought to the other world. The day to day life of today’s society is to sit and watch television all day long, not only at home, even while the kids are at school.Guy Montag is a firemen that start fires instead of putting them out, “spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world”, burning books and the houses that hold them. Firemen will watch you if there are any red flags showing that you are hiding books. Ray Bradbury is accusing modern society of so much censorship that they are losing the value of reading books and free-thinking, going by a day to day routine,not changing anything they do because that’s what everyone was doing,Ray Bradbury doesn’t want to be forgotten so easily. Guy Montag doesn’t think much of the world or much of anything really. He goes along with his routine every day with no changes, wearing a smile through the night after his work is done. While walking home one night Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan and walks with her till she reaches her house. She finds out that he’s a firemen and questions him about firemen back in the day, “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of start them?”, Montag laughed …show more content…
Being a fireman, Montag knows the rules about having books, let alone read them. Why would he want to let down his coworkers, and the women he “loves”. He already got shot down when he tried to question their work, trying to explain that once upon a time firemen put out fires instead of start them, but before he could even start Beatty shut him down saying “what kind of talk is that” (p.31). When Montag comes home to his wife he knows that she will be disappointed in him if she sees him with the book in his hands. So has he jumps into bed, he shoves the cold book under his cold