And i think it deserves such high praise. I picked this book up after constantly seeing it being listed in the Top 3 or Top 4 of the “Best Dystopian Novels” list. “Fahrenheit 451: the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns”ĭystopian fiction is one of the genres that I loved other than fantasy. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. 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’. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out.
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