Is a novel about a firefighter who is caught doing, what, for the past ten years of his life, has tried to stop the world from doing. One day, walking home after work, he sees a girl, who lives in a world where life is a lot slower than it should be compared to what Guy Montag thinks. His neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, finds that seeing and smelling and hearing is more interesting than driving hundreds of miles down the roads killing helpless pedestrians.
Throughout the novel, Ray Bradbury conveys books as forms of freedom, describing them as birds and pigeons, or the pages like white feathers. Through his enlightenment, Guy finds his importance and purpose in the world. What if you held the hope and freedom of humanity in your hands?
We all have words to talk with and hear with our ears, but, are they of our own, or are the ones being told worth saying and being listened to? Maybe, words can also be used for evil and manipulation. In this eye-opening, sci-fi novel, we see how those put in power can be in control of a population through the media, and, the suppression of free thought and knowledge.
