Fahrenheit 451 Book Comparison

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Fahrenheit 451, originally published in 1953, is considered one of the best works of Ray Bradbury, a well-known writer for his sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and mystery writings. This book is especially interesting and fun to read for those who’d love to get some wild and futuristic sci-fi novels. It is definitely different from any other book I’ve read because of it’s one of a kind setting and plot. Even though the book may seem boring at first, believe it or not, it makes a heart race as the story slowly reaches the climax. The story is set in a made-up, futuristic world, where books are banned from reading, and any book discovered will be burned. Who burns them? The firefighters. And Guy Montag, the protagonist/the main character of this story, is one of them. Throughout the book, he battles himself to make a choice between keeping what he has right now - his ignorant wife, his firefighter job, and his blank life, or to risk his life to save human culture from extinction. This book is distinct from any other book I’ve read …show more content…

I don’t like the movie as much as I like the book because the movie doesn’t really demonstrate the futuristic world that the author depicted. It disappoints me because, like I’ve said earlier, the setting of the story is what interested me the most. But the movie, unfortunately, was not able to convey it. And I didn’t expect the movie to create a futuristic world either because back in 1966, technology was not advanced. Aside from technological issues, there are some changes in the movie. In the book, the girl who inspires Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, dies due to a speeding car, but in the movie, she still lives. I personally prefer the book’s way because I think Clarisse’s death was a key factor in leading to the main conflict of the book. Overall, I think that the book is far more interesting than the movie because the book is just more descriptive and

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