Fire In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fire holds a central place in this novel; it is used numerously throughout the story for good and bad reasons. On the good side, it can be used for clearing thick tree growth so sunlight can reach the forest floor and encourage the growth of native species. Also, fire frees these plants from the competition delivered by invasive weeds and eliminates diseases or droves of insects that may have been causing damage to old growth. It can also be used to help the society in solving their problems. However, this is also used for the bad in this story. Specifically, burning books. In this society, books are burned due to the fact that they are becoming out of date. The firemens’ slogan of “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘me to ashes, then burn the ashes” (Bradbury 4) represents this. In conclusion, fire is used both for positive and negative reasons in the book’s society.

However, what he really enjoy doing is burning Beatty and the fellow firemen so he would be able to forget about them and carry out his plan safely. Montag and Faber came up with a plan against the society to start a revolution among the firemen for them to realize their foolish actions of burning the books by secretly planting the replications of the last remaining books inside the firemen’s houses. Although the plan almost failed, Montag was able to find the remaining “few books where he had left them, near the garden fence” (Bradbury 69); this showed that there was still a probability that Faber and his plan could still work. In conclusion, although Montag seemed to be enjoying burning down his own house, he was actually enjoying burning the troubles he faced in carrying out his