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Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
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First Publication: October 19, 1953 Category: dystopian novel Sales: ? |
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About the Book: Fahrenheit 451 “presents a future American society where books are outlawed and ‘firemen’ burn any that are found.” WK Bradbury has said he wrote the book because of concerns of book burning as a means of censorship, but that it was also meant as a commentary on “how television reduces knowledge to factoids and destroys interest in reading.” LC “The book’s tagline explains the title: ‘Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.’” WK Guy Montag is a fireman in a world where his job is to start fires instead of putting them out. His job is to destroy books. He never questions his work until he “meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.” AZ Montag “becomes disillusioned with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and joining a resistance group who memorize and share the world's greatest literary and cultural works.” WK “He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.” AZ The story has been adapted into film (1966), stage play (1979), a BBC Radio dramatization (1982), video game (1984), and HBO television film (2018). WK Resources and Related Links:
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