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what is the setting of this story. i mean like the everything.. the mood, where it takes place, and etc. Asmuch as info as possibe or websites...

2007-10-13 12:06:59 · 7 answers · asked by Krazym0nkey 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

7 answers

The setting is the indeterminate future in the USA.
For the rest, why not try cliffnotes:
A sample:

Interestingly, the impetus for the characters and the situation of Fahrenheit 451 date earlier than “The Fireman.” They first appeared during the years immediately following World War II, as Bradbury reveals in his introduction to Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (Bantam, 1975):

This story [“Pillar of Fire,” Planet Stories, Summer 1948], this character . . . I see now were rehearsals for my later novel and film Fahrenheit 451. If Montag is a burner of books who wakens to reading and becomes obsessed with saving mind-as-printed-upon-matter, then Lantry [protagonist of “Pillar of Fire”] is the books themselves, he is the thing to be saved. In an ideal world, he and Montag would have met, set up shop, and lived happily ever after: library and saver of libraries, book and reader, idea and flesh to preserve the idea.
By Bradbury’s own admission, the thematic obsession that explicitly emerges in Fahrenheit 451 is the burning of books, the destruction of mind-as-printed-upon-matter. And although Bradbury never uses the word “censorship” in the novel, one should be aware that he is deeply concerned with censorship. Book burning is a hyperbolic phrase that describes the suppression of writing, but the real issue of the novel is censorship." - see link 1

or sparknotes:
A sample:

Censorship
Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t provide a single, clear explanation of why books are banned in the future. Instead, it suggests that many different factors could combine to create this result. These factors can be broken into two groups: factors that lead to a general lack of interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. The novel doesn’t clearly distinguish these two developments. Apparently, they simply support one another.

The first group of factors includes the popularity of competing forms of entertainment such as television and radio. More broadly, Bradbury thinks that the presence of fast cars, loud music, and advertisements creates a lifestyle with too much stimulation in which no one has the time to concentrate. Also, the huge mass of published material is too overwhelming to think about, leading to a society that reads condensed books (which were very popular at the time Bradbury was writing) rather than the real thing." - see link 2

or bookrags:
A sample:

Plot Summary
Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a society in which books are illegal. His job is not to extinguish fires, but to light them. He burns books, and all the firemen wear the number "451" on their uniforms because that is the temperature at which books burn.

But the role reversal of the firemen is not the only difference between present-day society and the world in which Montag lives. People of Montag's world take no interest in politics or world issues. The only point of life is pleasure. Montag's wife, Mildred, spends her time watching the televisions that take up three of the four walls in their parlor, or listening to the seashell radios that fit snugly in the ear. It isn't until Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse that he realizes that there might be more to life than the electronic entertainment that absorbs everyone. Clarisse makes him think about the world beyond the wall television and seashell radios; she makes him wonder about life." - see link 3

or novelguide

A sample:

"Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 begins with a description of the main character, Guy Montag, a fireman trained not to put out fires, but to set them. The number on his helmet reads 451. Coincidentally, this is also the temperature at which he and the other firemen burn the books they find. Montag seems to be a robot of sorts, a machine simply following orders, not thinking for himself in any way at all. His mission-a mission to destroy homes contaminated with books-is mandated by the government. Though he initially seems moderately content with his job and his life in general, Montag's mind reflects the condition of his futuristic society: empty. He walks home from work every night "thinking little at all about nothing in particular." In this world, very few people still bother to consider the deeper questions of philosophy and religion. They are consumed with instant gratification-gratification that distracts them from larger, more important yet unsettling issues. The government, which strongly promotes this lifestyle, is in the meantime struggling to sugarcoat a major world war, which threatens to tear the nation apart-physically."
see link 4

2007-10-13 12:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1 1

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper, and therefore books, burn.
The novel is a defence of accumulated human feeling and knowledge under a tyranny.
The characters memorise a book each.
All bit sentimental but good in its own way.

2007-10-13 12:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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2016-05-22 06:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by amada 3 · 0 0

A time in the future when the government burns books and you can't have any. there is a movie of it, but you should read the book.

2007-10-13 12:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

go to cliff notes.com

2007-10-13 12:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by kellie r 5 · 1 0

haha sorry, I am not doing your homework.

2007-10-13 12:14:01 · answer #6 · answered by Kevy 7 · 1 1

No.

2007-10-13 12:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by zombi86 6 · 1 1

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