Luke05+Fahrenheit+451

** Fahrenheit 451 ** By Ray Bradbury   Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. Between 1926 and 1934, the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Waukegan, Illinois and Tucson, Arizona. In 1934, the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California. Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School. His first published short story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma" which was printed in 1938. In 1946, he met his future wife Marguerite "Maggie” McClure. Maggie was working as a clerk in a book shop when they met. Ray and Maggie were married in Los Angeles on September 27, 1947. They had four daughters, Susan, Ramona, Bettina, and Alexandra. Some of Bradbury's best known books are “The Martian Chronicles”, “Fahrenheit 451”, and “Dandelion Wine”. They also tried to turn his books into television shows. Today, Ray and Maggie Bradbury continue to live in Los Angeles. They have eight grandchildren and four cats. Ray still writes daily and does an occasional lecture.

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  **Plot Summary ** This book is set in the future where it is illegal to read any kind of book. If you are cau ght reading a book, the firemen come and set your whole house on fire and you go to jail. The main character in this book is Guy Montag who is a fireman. Guy meets a girl named Clarisse who makes him realize how lonely he is in his life. Guy comes home and finds his wife unconscious and a empty bottle of sleeping pills. He realizes that she tried to attempt suicide which makes him realize how lonely he really is. The next day Guy goes to burn a house. The women that lives there has the choice of coming out of the house, but she says "I want to stay here" (Bradbury 39). Guy realizes that she would rather die with the books then to live without them. Over the next few weeks Guy has been secretly stealing books from the houses they have been buring and has been hiding them in his house. Guy gets a call at work and when they get to the house he realizes that it is his house. If you want to know how this book ends, you will have to read it youself.

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; COLOR: #db1414; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Key facts **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 135%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">   Title - Fahrenheit 451 (The title of the book is Fahrenheit 451 because that is the temperature that paper burns.) Genre - Science fiction Date Published - 1953 Major Characters - Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty, and Faber <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; COLOR: #db1414; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">**Opinion** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">I thought one of the meanings of the book was that you don't need so much technology. Books are very important in our world and we can learn a lot from them. The book was also about censorship and not letting people read any books. I found this book interesting because Bradbury uses a lot of very descriptive words that makes the book a lot more fun and easier to read. The only bad thing about this book was that I thought it was hard to follow what was happening because at points he didn't always explain what was going on.

I think this book was an outstanding book because it really shows that books do have meanings to them and that they're just not written to be written. Also because the book gets very deep into the plot and really describes it. I recommend this book to anyone who gets deep into the book and people who like action books, but also books that make you think. If you don't want to read this book there is a movie called Fahrenheit 451.

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">**Works Cited** Bradbury, Ray. __Fahrenheit 451.__ New York:Ballantine Books, 1951 __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Phantom Bookshop __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">. 2008. November 4, 2008 < <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/phantombookshop/the-Ray-Bradbury/Categories <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">>

__Fantastic Fiction.__ 2008. November 4, 2008 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/ray-bradbury/fahrenheit-451.htm <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">>