Review of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 | iLike | iLike

Review of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 | iLike

Our reading club couldn't get past Ray Bradbury's excellent dystopia. It tells about a fictional, but not so distant future, when in the world of high technology, spirituality loses its meaning and is condemned and eradicated in every possible way. Experiences and feelings are considered superfluous and unnecessary, that violates comfort and peace of mind. The joy of life is replaced by soap operas, TV shows, amusement parks, fast driving on freeways, computer games and simulations. Thinking and contemplating is forbidden. Books are banned up to the physical destruction of their owner. Guy Montag is a firefighter, but this is not at all the profession that you can be proud of today. Their main task in the future is to destroy books at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. Thousands of works are burned, depriving an entire generation of spirituality and endangering civilization. One chance meeting puts Guy out of balance: on the way home, after another shift, he meets a girl, Clarissa, who seems crazy, because she's just ... walking. Such is advised to introduce herself by her relatives in order to avoid questions from the police. Guy asks about her interests and she dumbfounds him that she loves to talk to her family, who, of course, are also crazy. A few days later, Clarissa was hit by a car. This meeting turns the firefighter's world upside down and he begins to wonder what could be in the books that people are ready to hide them at the cost of their own lives. During the next shift, he quietly steals one of the books and begins to read it secretly from his wife at home.
The day comes when he realizes that his activities completely disgust his inner world and he stops going to work. Not knowing that he has already been discovered, he hurries to the village to an old acquaintance and at that moment an atomic bomb falls on the city, turning into dust everything artificially grown and fake. At this moment, there is a realization that they, the people who kept the books, are the living memory of humanity and can save it. Superheroes in the understanding of Ray Bradbury are not the saviors of civilization from unprecedented monsters, they are ordinary people who keep basic human values ​​in themselves and are ready to give their lives for them.
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