Fahrenheit 451 Reviewed - Jin

Ray Bradbury was born in Illinois in 1920. He has published over 500 short stories, novels, plays, scripts, and poems since his first story was published when he was just 20 years old.

Fahrenheit 451 was originally published by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd in 1954 and has since been republished by five different publishers.

Ray Bradbury began this story as a short story, then two, then three, four, five different short stories. These five short stories then became fahrenheit 451 - the temperature that paper burns at. The book was set in a futuristic world ruled by communism and firefighters.

 The story evolves around the journey of a young firefighter by the name of Guy Montag, who works for the firemen, who are employed not to stop fires, but to start them. The firefighters see their role as completing a cencorship of books - their explanation for this being that books are imaginary and impossible worlds that people start to want to be in, there are more choices and different, happier people. Burning of books takes away these choices and stops people wanting to be different than what they are.

Apart from Montag, the main characters are, his wife Mildred, Clarice, Captain Beatie, Professor Faber, and the mechanical hound.

I found the story average. There were some very interesting parts - especially in the second and third sections of the book. I found the first section more boring but felt curious to see what would happen in the second and third. I would rate the story 7.5/10 and recommend it for ages 11+.