Write 4 pages with APA style on Reflection on the Idea of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Write 4 pages with APA style on Reflection on the Idea of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. One of the reasons why this book is worth reading is the complexity of the characters that Bradbury had presented in the novel. Each character in the story closely represents every individual in the society at the moment, who by the way, is far from being perfect. The protagonist himself, Guy Montag, is unusually flawed. Like any member of the community, he does his job the way he thought he does it in the most responsible way, the way his supervisor, Captain Beatty, told him to. He used not to question his role as a fireman who burns houses of people who were found to own books. Although, not until the time when he thought everything seemed no longer normal as they should after meeting the young and carefree Clarisse McClellan, who unlike her wife asks a lot of questions and enjoys having a conversation with people. In fact, it was after that unusual conversation with the young Clarisse that the main character was suddenly able to see the world from a different perspective. The revelation that Montag himself has been stealing books from the houses they burn and hiding them in a safe place shows how the person he was before has transformed into somebody his job basically was against. His weakness as the main character in the story was more evident when Montag came to a point where he burned his supervisor, Beatty, to death when the latter found out about his secret of keeping books. Instead of burning his house where he was found to be of possession of books, which is, in fact, a criminal offense, he burned Beatty.

The plot of Fahrenheit 451 is in itself controversial. Ironically, firemen burning people and houses, and the government depriving its people of gaining knowledge – these are the basically what the book was about.