Book Report Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
Books were meant to be burned, destroyed, and mutilated, no matter the cost. This was what the people in this novel were told their entire lives, so they believed it. There were very few who didn’t believe that this way of life was right, but they were punished for their opinion. This novel includes multiple opinions on the matter, and shows that anyone has the ability to change their mind.
In this novel, the government has complete control over its people and what they do. They have control over communication, the misuse of entertainment to keep people distracted, and they have constant surveillance on them too. People are consistently being spied on by others in the society and by an automaton called the mechanical hound. The

It could also go along with the importance of ideas and literature. The characters in this novel have gone their entire lives without the ability to think on their own, or to do something so simple as reading. They have no control over what they’re able to do, and they have no say in what they’re allowed to do. The government censors all work that has to do with literature, and they have even outlawed books, preventing the people from coming up with new ideas. In the novel, Montag is talking to Beatty about the importance of burning books, and why they were outlawed. Beatty then explains to Montag the reasons as to why books are outlawed and burned. He tells Montag, “Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them too….. Let’s not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean”(Bradbury 59-60). In this section, Beatty is telling Montag about how things from the past should be forgotten, and how getting rid of those things caused peace within the people. He also mentions how burning everything will be beneficial because fire is