Kaitlyn+H.



Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was published in 1953. The book takes place in the future and centers around Guy Montag who is a fireman. But the firemen in this book aren't like today's firemen. Instead of stopping fires, they start the fires. This society has so many minorities that all "offensive" is striped out of books and leads to the books becoming so bland that nobody wants to read them and that's when the government brings in the firemen. Montag has been a fireman for a while and at the beginning of the book it seems as though he really enjoys what he does. After talking to Clarisse McClellan his 17 year-old neighbor, however, he comes to the realization that he isn't living the life he wants. I used the quote "It was a pleasure to burn" on the poster because it represents two things: 1) At the beginning he really did love to burn books. 2) After he realizes that his life isn't what he wants it to be, he "burns" everything he once knew. He rids his life of all of the things he used to hold dear. This line was important and that's why I made it a different color than the title, I wanted it to stand out to the viewer.