Fahrenheit 451

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Summary: Fever 1793
Review: Living in philadelphia could not have been any more boring or easy. A teenager by the name of Mattie runs away from everyday house chores and never wants to work at the family owned coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. She dreams of making the coffee shop the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. Until... disease sweeps Philadelphia right off it's feet. Fever breaks out throughout all of the town, into homes, shops, streets, and cities. The fever that has been smothering Philadelphia is called the Yellow Fever. The fever kills everything in it's way seeming as if it was coming straight to Mattie and her family. Can Mattie and her family survive the most devastating thing that has spread throughout Philadelphia in the blink of a yellow eye. Her diary Fever 1793 tells it all. It keeps the reader in great suspense throughout the entire novel making them contemplate what will happen next in the story.
In the story Mattie is living a normal teenage life when the Fever hits. She is forced to stay and watch over her old grandfather and not see her mother because she catches the fever. Her mother ends up temporarily moving away when her fever symptoms worsen, so that Mattie does not catch it from her. Everyday after that Mattie wakes up thinking if her mother is still alive. She now takes care of her funny grandfather as well as taking care for herself day by day. As the plot rages on Mattie becomes a more mature girl turning into a responsible young woman at the end. She has to face the daily challenges of seeing friends die and lifeless corpses lying on the ground in the streets. She learns to live with the Fever around her by learning survival techniques her grandfather teaches her. He teaches her how to shop for good food, know that moss only grows on one side of the tree, how to be herself and most important how to survive the fever. Mattie and her grandfather try to escape the fever diseased town but the police end up not letting them get out of the town on account that they might have it and spread it to other people and places. As time goes on a little the Fever gets worse, hospitals are overworked and overloaded, all shops are closed. No one can buy newspapers to know what's going on, all grocery, and clothing stores are closed because the owners do not want to catch the disease. This makes everything in the town worse people starved and broken because of the loss of work.
A large incident in the story is when Mattie and her grandfather come back to the coffee shop to find the store windows broken and the entire shop ruined into pieces. Disgusting teenagers and other people rob stores when the owners are away in hiding from the fever, such as Mattie and her grandfather. Almost everything in the coffee shop is gone except for the hidden money case. But the next thing you know two new teenage robbers come but find that Mattie and her grandfather are in the store. The two boys go after Mattie because she has the money jar in her hands but grandfather tries to defend her by fighting them and does a pretty good job at it. But the boys were young with a lot of energy and they would not give up. Grandfather soon got tired and the boys started to beat on him. Mattie secretly took the gun and tried to shoot the boy but missed. And now the boys started to go after Mattie with a knife but grandfather jumped in the way and got stabbed by one of the boys. As soon as the two boys realize what they have done they run away.
So if you love books that keep your heart beating fast; or if you enjoy a fun filled adventurous book; or even a book that can make you cry; than the book Fever 1793 is right book for you.

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Summary: Written in the basement of the UCLA library
Review: One big rift between the book and the movie [Fahrenheit 451 (1966) -- Oskar Werner, Julie Christie] is that in the movie the "written word" was completely removed (even from the credits), where as in the book the state was against literature and not technical writing. Books are just symbols of ideas that could have been on the screen also. There is a deference between training and education. Among other reasons the book was a symbol of one mans superiority over another in a world of equals.

I do not want to tell much of the story, as the unfolding is part of the intrigue. However now that houses are fire proof the purpose of firemen are performing a service by burning books to maintain the happy social order.

Naturally One fireman goes awry after several emotional incidences that run counter to his carrier. This leads to all kinds of deviant things like reading. What are you doing now?