Nathan Moinvaziri H. English, PRD 3 Mr. White 1/29/01

Title
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Major Characters
Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, Beatty, and Mildred

Setting
Takes place in a future communist world somewhere in a city.

Author’s Theme
Ray Bradbury’s theme is to express how unindividualist we would be without books and how much of zombies we would become. He also proposes that such restrictions of books would be something only instructed until a Nazi high order of command as the theme mimics the ideas under which the Nazi once reigned.

Rising Actions
The fore log of the book tries to show that it is bad to have books and shows the part of the fireman in cleaning up and getting rid of such books.

Montag meets Clarisse on a monorail train and she poses the question as to whether or not he is truly happy. This motives him to find out what is in the books and if his current life is all it is cracked up to be.

Then Montag comes home one day to find that his wife is desensitized as usual and sees that she has taken more sleeping pills than she was able to handle. Montag calls the hospital and such events as this make him feel truly unhappy.

Instances arise where Montag is continually starts to learn about books and how the firemen became to be.

A women in a house with a library tries burns herself alive and Montag has to be witness to this. At this house is where Montag gets one of the books he starts to read.

Montag analyzes his relationship with his wife Mildred and finds out that a car has hit Clarisse and her family moved away.

Climax
Montag gets sick and his wife finds all the books he has been hiding away in his house. She tries to get him to get help of some sort because she thinks he is crazy. She leaves him because he will not give up the books, which she even tries to burn one-by-one hoping he will not notice. He will eventually find out that she rated on him and gave out the alarm just before she left him.

Falling Action
Beatty orders Montag to burn his house down by himself with a flamethrower. He then tries to arrest Montag in which case Montag just burns Beatty to a crisp.

Montag now tries to escape from the firemen and he goes to one of his friends for help that tell him to go to an area outside of the city where other intellectuals are located.

Montag meets the learn of the homeless people which shows him on TV the police chasing Montag. The media then fakes Montag’s death on television.

Montag is introduced to all the intellectuals who have recalled at least one book each perfectly and tells him that they are a part of a network of thousands of such people.

The city is bombed by the upcoming war that persisted and Montag and the band of intellectuals are nearly killed. They emerge from the rubble and try to help those in the city that are hurt. More importantly they try to help rebuild what once was lost.

Conflict
Throughout the story the conflict was mainly between Montag and the world, which he found he was displeased with because it made him feel sensitized and unhappy. Montag has to secretly get books and later has to hide them from his wife and keep his wife out of his hair just in order to find some happiness in his life.

Resolution
The resolution in Fahrenheit 451 would have to be that the books are save and sound from firemen who only want to destroy books. Resolution also comes in hope that the city can be rebuilt into a society that enjoys and permits the reading of books.

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