Fahrenheit 451

FAHRENHEIT 451 is a classic written by Ray Bradbury. The novel is originally a short story entitled “The Fireman” published in the Galaxy Science Fiction in 1951 and two years later expanded into Fahrenheit 451. It’s a story about books and it’s not a happy one, because you see, it’s a crime to possess books and if anyone is found to keep them in their houses or read them, they will be reported and everything will be burned to ashes—the books, the house, and sometimes even the owners. Why? Because books give readers ideas of unhappiness, pain, suffering—they are evil.

Normally firemen put out fire but in Bradbury’s story, they don’t. Instead, the firemen start them in order to burn books. As indicated by the title Fahrenheit 451, the numbers 451 is the identification of a particular fireman in the story […]