Friday, April 11, 2014

I decided to make this a blog about Fahrenheit 451 because I wanted to take a break on reading my own books that I wanted to read. If you read my previous blog, you kind of know where I am heading with that and why I chose to do this instead of continuing on.

This book was actually good for a book that I am supposed to read for a class. Previously, the books that I was supposed to read were just The Schwa Was Here, The Outsiders (both OK books), Bronx Masquerade, and Whirligig (Both REALLY TERRIBLE books). Also, this book was better than some books that I have read in my own time (except for anything that has any relation to the Percy Jackson series).

What I liked about this book was first, it was a book about burning books and having a society that was messed up. This kind of reminds me of the society in The Hunger Games. People getting killed for the sole purpose of entertainment, no freedom of what you can do, and the fact that people don't know what to do, because of the government. In Fahrenheit 451, the people would run over other people because they don't want to be bored, and they thought that they were happy by just watching TV for the rest of their lives.

Then, Montag came around, and once he met Clarrise, he realized that there was something wrong with this place. He needed to fix this and make it so that people will have freedom and that this chaos will end. It was almost like playing with fire is a good thing, especially when there are books around you and they are supposed to be burnt. Later on, he manages to kill an old lady and he found out that Clarrise's family was taken away.

After Clarrise, the only person he liked, was dead, he met another guy named Faber, who was a retired English professor. He would act like Clarrise in the rest of the book, except he would try to take down the firemen for good and not just change or rehabilitate them. He and Montag would make it a mission to end the unfair torture that the firemen are doing and to take down the government that was behind all of this mess.

The rest of the story is about how Montag tries to get the mission going and what he does to save the people who have a mind, and what the government does to the city.

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