Here’s another interesting book. I work as an EA at the local high school and the grade 12 English class is reading Fahrenheit 451. I love to read, so I took the book home and promptly read it within a few days. The first 10 pages or
so were tough slugging! The imagery is crazy. This book was written in the 50′s so the style of writing is a bit different.
The storyline is good. It’s about firefighters who burn things down instead of putting out fires. They burn books which are censored, so anybody who is caught with them will lose their houses along with the books. I can’ t even begin to imagine what if would be like to live in a society where reading is prohibited. In the story, the town is oppressed and the suicide rate is high. There is also a war going on.
The main character is a firefighter who meets a woman that has him questioning his beliefs about his job and what he’s really doing to others. He then goes off on a very dangerous track to make sense of his life. The book, on a whole, is good but the end left me wondering some things. Not enough closure I suppose.
