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Summary: FROM ASH TO DUST (THE WILL TO READ BEYOND THE START )
Review: FROM ASH TO DUST , THATS WHERE IT ALL STARTS.BOOKS ARE BANISHED FROM THIS WORLD, AND IF SOMEONE DARES TO HAVE ONE THEY MUST BE READY TO FACE THE CONSEQUINCES. GUY MONTAGE LOVES HIS JOB UNTIL HE DISCOVERS WHAT BOOKS ARE REALLY ABOUT. A PROFESSOR TELLS HIM OF THE FUTURE IN WHICH PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE TO THINK, AND A 17-TEEN YR. OLD GIRL TELLS HIM OF A PAST WHEN PEOPLE WEREN'T AFRAID. IF ONLY BOOKS COULD BE KEEP THE LIFE STORY TOLD TO HIM COULD BE SHOWN AND PEOPLE NO LONGER WOULD BE AFRAID.
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Summary: Needs Help
Review: If anyone reads this, I need help. I'm bad with writing my own summaries and I need to for my portfolio. Can anyone help?
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Summary: 451: The true number of the beast.
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is(next to 1984)truly one of the greatest literary visions of an overbearing, tyranical future. Its message is simple, genuine, and timeless. If you only buy one Ray Bradbury book, buy this one! Peace.
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Summary: Very entertaining, frightfully close to the truth too...
Review: This book had some very good qualities. The novel leaves your mind provoked into hypothetical situations like the ones in the book. Knowledge is burned, individuality and poetry are frowned upon. Is this really too different from our society today? No, it's really not far off. This read has some interesting twists at the end and leaves you thinking.
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Summary: Not Just About Book Burning-- An Awesomely Important Work
Review: As 1984 becomes less relevant as a work, this novel becomes annually scarier and scarier. Everyone remembers that they burn books in this novel-- what they forget is why. Bradbury's world is one where-- --anything that might offend any special group is repressed --anything that might require people to think is repressed --people sit and stare endlessly at wall-sized tv's --suicide is rampant and unremarkable --people lead life at breakneck speed to avoid thinking or feeling In short, Bradbury has created a world which is frighteningly close to the one in which we live. Even if you THINK you remember this work, it is time to reread it. Book burning is by far the least scary prediction Bradbury has made here.
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Summary: Bradbury's Masterpiece
Review: An excellent novel, but terrifying due to its plausibility. Not only, in today's society, does the story created by Bradbury seem possible, but it seems as if it could occur shortly. It does give one ideas to consider, especially about the mores of our society. Other than the underlying themes, this is wholly a good book. The plot is entertaining and fast-paced, and the characters are wonderfully developed. The humorous, futuristic household items, and some of the characters' attitudes lighten the mood and keep the book from becoming too cynical. Overall, this is an excellent book worth reading.
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Summary: Individualism
Review: Ray Bradbury's classic vision of a prophetic destruction of society is beautifully addressed in Fahrenheit 451. It shows how the incineration of books, symbols for intelligence and wisdom, lead to nothing but ignorance and collectivist states of society that will eventually destroy mankind. The protagonist, Montag, is however an individualist in this futuristic society who stands for his own beliefs and does not conform to his destructive surroundings. This is a very powerful novel, however Ray Bradbury may have been inspired by other writers with the original idea of literature devoted to individualism. It was written in 1951, around the same time that George Orwell's 1984 was written. However the genius with this original and very revolutionary idea of incorporating individualism into literature is Ayn Rand, who wrote the classic novelette, Anthem, in 1937. Anyone who enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 will enjoy Anthem even more.
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Summary: Burn Baby Burn
Review: I have enjoyed reading this book. everyone will enjoy it after the first reading. It may be slighlty difficult in the beginning but if you continue to read you will find this book to be very deep, and compelling. I feel as if the more you read it, the more you will enjoy it because you will absorb more information that you may have missed on the first reading. Go Montag!
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Summary: Ideas Can Be Unpleasant
Review: Ray Bradbury uses the idea of a book burning society in Fahrenheit 451 to represent the destruction that popular culture has wrought on the intellectual exchange that existed before the advent of mass market entertainment. If given the choice between easy and difficult, most people will choose easy. Books represent the hard things in life. They contain ideas and opinions that may be different from our own and that may challenge us to think and understand in ways that we never comprehended before.One key thing to understand about Bradbury's masterpiece is that the book burning didn't come from the government. It started with the populace progressively ignoring books because they upset too many people. It began with minority groups (anyone from Chinese to left-handed people) ripping 'offensive' pages from books and destroying them. So began the homogenating process that is popular culture and group identity. In F. 451, Guy Montag is a fireman. In this world firemen start fires, they don't stop them. They burn the houses that harbor the illegal books. Montag runs across a teenage girl named Clarisse who challenges Montag's view of the world. She gets him to do the most dangerous thing that any person can do: think. Once Montag starts to think about his world and what he does, he is destined to either rebel against this repressive society or kill himself (which many of Montag's fellow citizens opt to do). F. 451 shows that it's not books that are revolutionary but the free flow of ideas that they promote. The wall-tv in the parlor is everything that is wrong with Montag's world and our's as well. The wall-tv literally drowns out any chance that people will communicate once they set themselves in front of its addicting glow. The sweet irony of all this is that man has used his brain so well that we have come to a point where we no longer have to think to survive. We have created countless machines that do our thinking for us. In F. 451 no one really thinks about what they do, they just do it. It's what the do, it's what they've always done, so it's what they'll always continue to do. Until of course somewhere along the way someone steps outside of himself and observes himself going about his routine and questions it. The most dangerous man in the world is the man who asks not just how but why.
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Summary: Full of Metaphors
Review: "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury, shows the theme of men and women not thinking for themselves, but letting others make decisions for them. Many want a perfect world, where everything goes right, but when people gain knowledge of something it causes segregation of beliefs resulting in problems. Bradbury acknowledges this, but tries to convey the message that, with knowledge of the past, we can understand the reason for mistakes made and prevent them from happening again. Another message that is presented is that the people are afraid of knowing things: thinking scares them. They let others think for them, in this case the government. "Fahrenheit 451" is full of metaphors that, when understood, compliment the theme. One metaphor is the mechanical hound. It is a computerized animal used as the government's way of punishing its enemies. The hound shows the power dictatorship has the power the government has to enforce. The seashells which people listen to are used to promote the policies of the government. The seashells can be thought as to help, "drift these people off to sea," as seashells would drift out to sea. Finally fire is used often as a subject of metaphors. Burning the books is a way to make them non-existent. The government doesn't want the books because the knowledge in the books contradicts the governmental policy. They burn them, like one would burn a piece of trash if they didn't want it.
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