Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to burn books. One day, he meets a 17-year-old girl named Clarisse. She tells him about a time in the past when books were legal and people could read them without being arrested. The next day, Montag goes to a fire and burns an old lady?s house. While setting the fire, he takes a book from the lady?s library. When he goes home, he questions himself why he is a fireman and puts the book under his pillow. The following day, he is about to call in sick to work, but Beatty, his captain, comes to his house. Beatty talks to Montag about the history of the firemen and how they used to put out fires that would start by accident.

Ray Bradbury is the author of many science fiction novels and short stories. Fahrenheit 451, ironically, has been banned in some school districts around the country. According to Bradbury in an appendix, Ballantine Books, a publisher of the book, edited out certain parts of the book to keep it from offending some people, which is why the books in Fahrenheit 451 were deemed illegal.

After Beatty leaves, Montag takes books from his air vent that he has been storing over the years and scatters them over the floor, trying to get his wife to read with him.

The message that Bradbury was trying to convey in this story how dangerous a government can be when it wants to control thoughts of the people.

Later, he decides he wants to fight for the legalization of books. He meets with a friend named Faber who used to be a college professor when books were legal, and decides to create havoc by planting books in fir

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