Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a fireman named Guy Montag whose job is to, ironically, start fires. Everything was going great for Guy, I mean he had money, a “loving” wife, and had an exhilarating job of burning books.

That all changes when he meets a teenage girl who completely changes his view on the corrupt world and when he opens a book, which is illegal, he realizes why reading them is forbidden.

Guy realizes he must escape this awful place, but where would he go? How would he get there? And who can he trust?

Fahrenheit 451 is one of many dystopian society novels that catch my attention because it makes me wonder what would happen if this WAS our world. It is very boring in the beginning and is confusing at some parts, but overall it’s an amazing book and had me reading 20 pages within 10 minutes towards the end.

I chose this book because I love dystopian society books and quite a lot of websites and people were recommending me this book for a while. I wonder what would happen if books were illegal and people were forbidden to read them?

For Bradbury, books were repositories of knowledge and ideas. He feared a future in which those things would be endangered, and now that future was here: The internet and new social-media platforms — and their potential threat to serious thought — would be at the heart of my adaptation.

I had never adapted a book, let alone one so important. Altering a work so brilliant and beloved always upsets some fans. With Bradbury as my guide, and a vow to stay true to his ideas, I began working on the script.

“Fahrenheit 451” was written in the early 1950s, not long after Nazis burned books and, eventually, human beings. America was living under a cloud of fear created by the House Non-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism, which brought political repression, blacklists and censorship of literature and art. These anxieties permeate the novel.

This book is one of the finest dystopian novels you can read. None the less, this book somewhat talks about the dying freedom of speech and thought which makes this book so relatable for the current era.