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Summary: Tha Reveiw
Review: Farenheit 451 is written by Ray Bradbury.This book was kind of wierd and hard to follow in the beginning.The book got more exciting and exhilarating as it went on.Bradbury's concept of firemen burning books is really a cool idea.Ray Bradbury had an endless imagination to have come up the ideas he used in his story.
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Summary: LOOK OVER HERE MISS ODONNEL!
Review: DID YOU READ MY REVIEW YET?
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451: Review
Review: In this book, Bradbury demonstrates his talent of symbolism as he brings the inner meaning of the book to our eyes. 451 takes place in a distant future far from our time. In a world where the government is afraid that people will learn (from books)and rebel, firemen no longer are called to the scene to put out fires, but to start them. In this warp society, burning books is a swift, fast way to take out all education, and people who strive for it. Guy Montag, a fireman, meets a young girl who tells him about a past where things were totally different, and once more sparks his intrest in books he had before. In this book, Bradbury tells us about censorship. It gets the reader thinking is it good or bad? Could Bradbury be forshadowing what our lives will soon become? Overall, this book was good. It got me to think about how our life would be like if I was in the book. I would reccomend it for anyone who is willing to give it a try.
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Summary: IT WAS A GREAT BOOK
Review: FARENHEIT 451 IS A BOOK I READ IN MY LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS IT TAKES PLACE IN THE FUTURE WHERE FIREMEN START FIRES INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM OUT. THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS THE PEOPLE BY THE TV. THE MAIN CHARACTTER OF THE BOOK IS GUY MONTAG WHO IS ONE OF THE FIREMEN OR BOOK BURNERS.I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT BOOK BECAUSE IT TAUGHT ME THAT WE SHOULD VALUE BOOKS AND NOT TAKE THEM FOR GRANITE.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: When I began 8th grade I was told we were going to begin reading Fahrenheit 451. I have heard many great comments about this book. Fahreheit 451 is a book that is set in the future even though it was written in the 1960's things that happen in this book have yet to happen. The main charachter is Guy Montag. Guy is marreid to Mildred.Guy is a fireman;but in this society firemen are a little different. Firemen start fires if you have any kind of book in your house.This book is all aobut symbolism. I honestly don't think I would have been able to understand this book if it were not for the class discussions my class had. This book contains many hidden ,but very important details. In this book you will feel like a detective. You will always be searching for the meaning of metapohrs, and symbolism. I absolutly loved the book. This book has a twist that most books don't have. The book has so many things in their society that we have today but are changed.The reason I gave the book only 4 stars is because it was confusiiong. You must read it carefully and slowly. It's a great class book.
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Summary: Book Burning
Review: A Review by RyanOne night, while walking home from work, Guy Montag runs into a girl named Clarisse McClellan. This girl changes Montag's life and helps him notice that he not really happy. This setting is in the future when books are banned both to read and to have possession of. Montag had a job as a firefighter, but he was not assigned to stop fires from spreading. Instead hid job was to burn books and the houses in which they were hidden. Whenever Montag was at work, he always felt wrong when he was burning books. This change occurred after he met Clarisse. She helped him notice that books were a good thing. But one day at work Montag was faced with choice to either burn a book, or to keep the book and read it. I won't tell you what happens next because that would ruin the book. I liked a lot of things about this book, but the thing that enjoyed most was the amount of description and detail. When you read the book you could just picture yourself as the main character and see clearly in full detail you surroundings. Most authors lack this amount of imagination. Second I like the pace at which this book flows. It wasn't too fast or too slow. It would first fully explain one part of the story before it moved on to another part. I also liked the way he wrote this book. It was in such a way that you just had to keep reading until you finished the whole book. Third, I liked the vocabulary that Bradbury used. The words he used made his book sound professional, but the words were not so complex that you can't understand them. The vocabulary also helps in the descriptions that Bradbury made. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who has a ninth grade reading level or higher. I think it is the type of book that anyone who reads would enjoy reading this book. People who enjoy science -fiction would like this book even better. I say this is a must read book.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451- Review
Review: Fahrenheit 451-Review
Fahrenheit 451 is a since fiction book set in the future about a fireman named Guy Montage. Only Guy doesn't put out fires like firemen today, he starts them instead. The point of these fires is to burn books, because his society has decided that books do more harm then good. After seeing the look on people's faces after their books were burned Guy becomes interested in books and wonders why people seem to care so much about them. He starts to read books and eventually gives up his old lifestyle. Overall, I thought that Fahrenheit-451 was an interesting and exciting book. It was a little slow and hard to understand at first but eventually it started to pick up and became hard to put down. I can't say much for the setting or the character development but the book was worth reading just for it's phenomenal theme. Near the end the suspense started to pour in and it does keep you on the edge of you seat but immediately after that it slows down. I myself did think that this was an all right book. If you like science fiction and enjoy creative and important themes then Fahrenheit 451 is an excellent choice. I would recommend this book, though I don't like science fiction that much, only because of what it teaches us about the importance of books.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451 Review
Review: I enjoyed many things while reading the novel Fahrenheit 451. I especially liked how the society that Ray Bradbury created was an exaggeration but this exaggeration was not so distorted that it seemed unrealistic. In the novel Bradbury states that its cars go normally 100 miles per hour, an every day thing for woman is to have an abortion, inside the peoples' homes there are television walls and he also describes other futuristic ways of life.
There also were not really any emotions in the book, which was another part about the novel that I enjoyed. For instance, the way Guy felt about Clarisse. You knew throughout the entire novel the effects she had on him and she is thought about, but never really talked about. I liked how even though this novel was written about fifty years ago, you can see it the events that Mr. Bradford described happening to our society. It hits you right at home and Ray Bradbury does a good job of warning us what the future might possibly be like.
Another thing I also enjoyed about the book was how fire was constantly used and how it was always used as destruction and bad thing until the end. Whenever Bradbury describes the camp fire that was warming and welcoming because the Montag escaped the society and met up with other people that wanted to bring books back. These people were around that campfire and it was not threatening or anything.
There were very many good parts to this book, however there were also some parts of the novel that I did not particularly like. In the beginning of the novel, I think Ray Bradbury goes into too much detail with the description about Guy's pleasurable experiences while on the job. I do not feel that it is relevant to the novel for him to include such information. I think that it started out very slow. During the slow beginning, there was a lot of symbolism and allusions to literature in the novel. I was not very familiar with these uses of symbolism and allusions so I did not pick up on that particular part of the novel.
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Summary: A Highly Intellectual Book
Review: Constructed in a more modern and futuristic society, Fahrenheit 451 is a book in which future firemen actually burn the books, apparently for the "bettering" of the book's society. Most people say that this book is about cesorship. But if you dive behind the printed text, you will see the true meaning behind this book. Bradbury satirizes [in this book] what our society is slowly becomig through our own intellectualism(s). And that has been my thesis statement for the three papers I have written on this book: "This book satyrizes what modern society is slowly becomming; as such then we can conclude that [through the socratic definition of justice] that our world is slowly becomming unjust. All in all this is the best book I have ever read. It will enlighten a true reader. Please, for the sake of all great literature, please read this book. I am a highschool freshmen, and I found it exciting enough to do a fifty two page paper on. Please, give Bradbury a chance. The book also goes along with "The Allegory of the Cave" found in chapter three of Plato's "The Rebublic". "Fire is clean and fire is bright."
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Summary: A Possible Solution
Review: My initial thought of the book, after reading the back cover, was this is going to be very corny. After putting much time into reading the story, I was surprised when it turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read.
One of the key ingredients for my much love for the book was the sufficient detail, but still leaving room for you to interpret it in your own way. The glimpse of the future does not seem so far fetched. With the new interest in television over a book, and the "un-colorblind" society, book burning would seem like a good answer.
I enjoyed the book, it was a fun read, and portrayed what may happen later in our time. The story is about Guy Montags life as a "fireman", one who destroys books by burning them. He is challenged by a younger girl, his neighbor, and notices the horror of his times. One thing I did notice with the story, however, was some parts in the book were very well described, and others I wish had more explanation. For example, more details on how the society is run, and set up would have been nice. I think the author may of done this to keep the focus on the point of the story, but I felt I was missing things when "painting my picture". During my period of reading the book, I couldn't help but compare the story to that of incidents of book burnings during the Second World War. The government in Fahrenheit 451can be compared to Hitler, and his drive too uneducated the people of his generation, and erase all evidence of their past.
This book requires you to read between the lines, to get the under lying meaning, which is a great aspect in my opinion. It stupefies me on how a writer so long ago, could accurately portray what exactly is happening in our society, for this reason I alone I read the book cover to cover, and made special note of other areas of prediction. I read other reviews before reading the story myself; I noticed that many of the reviewers felt there were too many metaphors. I don't think this should be a reason not to read this book.
I enjoyed this book very much, and would recommend it to any one that asked. It is a must read classic. Bradbury's interpretation of the future is none but awe inspiring.
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