Week 6 Fahrenheit 451

Dylan Schulz

               To start off I’d have to say this is probably one of my favorite books I have had to read for school. I’m not a big reader by any means unless it’s and S. E. Hinton book but this book was really legitimately good. It was not too short nor too long it was a good sized little novel and the whole concept was so creative and clever I could not get enough. The beginning and middle of the book are pretty fast moving which made an easy read. Towards the end it slowed down and simply wanting to know what happened is what kept me going.

               In the book Guy’s character changes a lot and by the end he is so so much different than at the beginning when he is Joe Bookburner, but in saying that he is also a lot of the same. Growing up in the society he did seems to have had this devastating effect on him and most characters. They can not think for themselves. This horrific truth seems to haunt Guy through out his journey. He is always somewhat uncertain about what to do in sketchy situations and people can sway him somewhat with ease because of it. Characters like Beatty, and Faber especially capitalize on this fact, it seems they can get Guy to do whatever they please in some instances.

               Guy goes through a lot of conflicts I mean his wife tried to kill herself and then later she betrays him and ratted him out for his stash of books! That you know what, that is so awful and to top it off Beatty makes him burn his own house down!! Because Guy seems to do whatever he’s told he does it then is placed under arrest. That would have devastated me if my own wife did that I would lose my mind or at least divorce her. But Guy gets even with Beatty and torches his behind just fries the mean man. This was probably one of my favorite parts I love when an underdog gets his revenge especially when it means one charred mean son of a gun.

               At this point Guy is really starting to even the score he knocks out another fireman and runs to a stash of his and uses it to frame another fireman that’s karma if ever saw it. The book slowly dies off from here after the big intense chase but it ends with a hope that Guy is doing the right thing with the Book people searching to save society one town at a time.

Now I know this is a day late but its done now sorry Mrs. Brannan.