The book begins with the main character, Guy Montag, returning from his not so common firefighter duties. Guy is a fireman who starts and fuels fires to burn houses and all of their contents to ashes. Why does he do it? In his society, anyone who has books in their possession will have all of their property burned. Later, we find out that the offense was reading the books, not just having them. Later that night, Guy is rounding a usual corner on a usual night, but somehow it feels very different than it usually does to go around that corner. He meets a young 17-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is described as being a bit insane. When Guy meets her, he finds out that she is his new neighbor. She lives with her uncle, mother and father in an apartme

Throughout the book many things were left wide open. There were really no hints to the time period or to the location. But, if I had to guess, I would say that it takes place in about 2015 or 2020. I base this assumption on the fact that the cars seemed to be going very fast which I know sometime in the future will happen. I also assumed that the cars were still on the ground and not hovering, which will happen in the future. I was not able to figure out the location but I would say it was in a smaller city, not like New York, Boston or Los Angeles. Cities like those are too loud at all hours to be peaceful at night as Clarisse described. If I had to guess, I would say a city like Chicago because it is peaceful at night but it still has the big city features. Throughout the book I wondered, why did Clarisse just disappear? I would have liked to have had some sort of follow up or have had her found with the group of men by the river after Guy’s chase with the police. When Guy’s house was burned Mildred zoomed away in a beetle taxi and never came back. I would have liked to have seen her either face the facts and stay with Guy, or come back to see her house and belongings in ruins. But I thought that the disappearance of both characters was a lack of detail that the book could have easily covered. I really didn’t understand the 451 part in the title. I suppose that this is because the temperature of a fire is 451 degrees Fahrenheit. In my personal opinion I think the title “The Fire Man” made m

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