Farenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
By: Michele Maslowski
Quotes
"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help."- Guy Montag
"They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll have to hit."- Faber
Indroduction to Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is about a society were books are banned. Guy Montag is a fireman. A fireman's job is to burn books and the houses were the books are located. Montag never thinks about his life happy; he did not know. Montag now questions everything. He asks his wife Mildred if she knew where they metand never really realizes what his job really is. One day he was walking home, and he ran into a girl named Clarisse. She asked him questions that make him question his life. She asked if he was . She did not know. Montag now is very unsure about what he is doing and wants to read books.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukeguen, Illinios on August 22, 1920. He decided to become an author at the age of 12 or 13. He did not have the money to go to college. Bradbury went to the library three days a week for 10 years. He finished his first short when he graduated from high school. Bradbury finished his first proffessional story called the pendulum in 1941. He became a full time writer by 1943. In 1947 he got married. Bradbury published his first major book in 1950 The Martian Chronicles. Farenheit 451 was published in 1953. Bradbury died on June 5, 2012.