Fahrenheit 451 Book Review

Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel  by Ray Bradbury. It shows the readers a world where books have been banned. Whether it be making them, owning them, or distributing them. Although it has a reasonable amount of characters, it feels like only about half of them standout and make an impact on the story. The conflicts in the story consist of man vs man, man vs society, man vs technology, and man vs self, with Guy Montag, our protagonist, experiencing all of the aforementioned situations. Man vs man comes into play when Captain Beatty confronts Montag about straying from the social norm of society. Man vs society happens when Montag starts reading books and since they are outlawed and seen as taboo. Although it was hinted at earlier, man vs technology is most obvious when the mechanical hound pounces at Montag and he sets it ablaze with the flamethrower, and also how he has to compete withe the seashell and parlor walls for his wife's, Mildred, attention. The most prominent conflict would be man vs self. It is prompted o appear by Clarisse when it says"He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling The two halves grinding against each other." It appears again when he stars to doubt his career and the history of the firemen The only dislike I have about the story is that there are few to no humorous moments in the novel. I would give an example, but there isn't one to give. Something I do like about Fahrenheit 451 is how the future depicted is similar to the time we live in now. Although books are not banned, people focus on other miscellaneous things to block out the major issues of society. In the novel Mildred is almost always seen in the parlor watching the walls or with her seashell in her ear, and it's even encouraged to normally drive at extremely unsafe speeds. Another thing I like is the idea of firemen  burning down houses instead of preventing that from happening due to how bizarre the idea is. When I first reading it I didn't too like the book, but as I read on and realize the central message of it, I grew more interested due to how similar it was with today's society. Humans have always been beings that look for pleasure, bu now it seems like that's some people live for and fail to care about anything else. I wouldn't recommend this book to  a certain age group, but to anyone who is looking for a book with a clear message.