Fahrenheit 451 Reflection

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Fahrenheit 451 is the novel that is being studied. Bradbury’s novel gives the reader an insight into the life of Guy Montag, a man in his thirties with a wife, a job, and a house. Montag initiated works in this dystopian novel as a fireman. Who unlike their job in real life, in the novel they use fire to burn books and forms of expression through literature and writing. Montag has been practicing the burning of books for years and only after meeting a girl named Clarisse is opened to a world of question and inquisitive to know more and understand more knowledge. The novel's climax is inated when Montag is required by his fireman captain to burn down his own home to remove the awful trace of books that Montag now possesses. Montag then kills

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