Fahrenheit 451 summary

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that is about a man by the name of guy montag that is a firefighter that instead of putting out fires starts them in house that are owned by people who have books. In this futuristic world, sum what like ares, books are illegal to have getting your house burnt down if suspected to have any. In the story montag gets asked by a girl that lived next to him if he was happy. This and the burning of lady who would rather burn with her books than loose them sets montag over the edge making him stop going to work and stay home with his wife reading books that montag had been stealing from different houses they burn. Beatty his fire chief comes to his house after montag stops coming to work telling him that what he's going through is normal and all he needs to do is burn the books and come back to work. Instead he goes to an old teacher named faber asking him if there's a way he can print the books he has so he can give back the other copy to Beatty. One night montag goes to the fire station to talk to Beatty and there is a call for the firefighters to go burn a house and they end up at montags house. As the firefighters start to burn his house montag takes a flame thrower type thing and kills Beatty.

Vocabulary #8

Ruinous: disastrous or destructive.
Quavered: Shake or tremble in speaking through nervousness or emotion.
Certitude: absolute certainly or conviction that something is the case.
Notch: an indentation or incision on an edge or surface.
Perspired: give out sweat through the pores of the skin as the result of heat, physical exertion, or stress.
Manifested: display or show by ones acts or appearance.
Latrine: a toilet or outhouse
Uttered: make a sound with ones voice.
Parried: ward off a weapon or attack with a countermove.
Oracle: a response or message given.
Conscious: aware of and responding to ones surroundings.
Feigning: pretend to be affected by a feeling, state, or injury.
Leisurely: acting or done at leisure, unhurried or relaxed.
Conjure: make something appear unexpectedly.
Anesthetized: administer an anesthetic to a person or animal.
Tyranny: cruel and oppressive government or rule.
Folly: lack of good sense, foolishness.
Dreary: dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing.
Grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.
Reckoning: the action or process of calculating or estimating something.

Vocabulary #7

1. Pratfall: a fall onto ones buttocks
2. Bewilderedly: cause someone to become perplexed and confused
3. Titillation: stimulated or excite someone
4. Theremin: an electronic musical instrument in which the tone is generated by two highfrequency oscillators.
5. Tabloids: a newspaper having pages half the size of a standard newspaper
6. Centrifuge: a machine with a rapidly rotating container that applies centrifugal force to its contents
7. Haltingly: slow and hesitant through lack of confidence
8. Probe: a blunt ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body
9. Stagnant: having no current or flow; showing no activity
10. Cacophony: a harsh discordant mixture of sounds

Vocabulary Candidates

1. Phychiatrist
2. Illuminated
3. Transcripted
4. Accusation
5. Bombarded
6. Pantomine
7. Condensation
8. Digests
9. Radical
10. Tabloids

Vocabulary #6

1. Tatters: Torn bits
2. Merely: only, just
3. Vast: Immense, huge
4. Parlor: A room of house/ entry room
5. Abruptly: Quickly and without warning
6. Refracted: Reflected at different angles
7. Immense: Extremely large or great in size
8. Imperceptibly: Impossible to perceive
9. Ventilator: A machine that pushes air through a vent
10. Olfactory: Relating to the sense of smell

FAHRENHEIT 451

Reading the Wikipedia on Fahrenheit 451 I learned that this book was on of Bradbury's best works that he ever created. He wrote this on his concern for book burning during the McCarthy era and how people were actually burning books at that time. The book has won many awards and Bradbury was honored for his great work. The plot is in some mid west city after the 1960s.   

Its been a while

      After starting to read Fahrenheit 451 I have found that its a lot more than just a book. I found I can really connect with Montag and the story. Before getting into this book and really reading I saw that reading really isn't bad at all as long as you find a book that you can really see your self in just as dr. Preston said.