Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of
twentieth-century literature set in a bleak dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his
world where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction firemen start fires
rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities the printed
book along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction
and ruin his actions produce returning each day to his bland life and wife Mildred who
spends all day with her television family.” But then 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.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears Montag begins to question
everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home and when his pilfering is
discovered the fireman has to run for his life.
