Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house
that has a book in it. At least that\'s the way it was for Guy Montag.
Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn\'t to
stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known
as bad and shameful and if anyone had possession of a book whether it was in
their house or in another person\'s house, then the house was to be burned.
Guy was never really sure what was so bad about the books. He never really
knew the reason why he would have to burn down a person\'s house when one had
possession.
One day the firemen were notified about a woman that had a large supply
of books in her house. When Guy went to commit arson at the house, he slipped
a book into his coat pocket. Over time, Guy began to receive more and more books.
One night, Guy pulled one of the books out from where they were being hidden
and began to......
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