A book by
Ray Bradbury. The story is about a future dystopia. It follows the line of a Heroic Quest.
Guy Montag is the good
guy. He starts off with the status quo of this society. Books are outlawed and he's agaisn't them. A reason why books are illegal is explained when the false mentor, Captain Beattey, says "Knowledge is
like a loaded
gun.", basically meaning knowledge can be used agaisnt stupid
people.
Guy first starts to wonder about his life when Charrise the true mentor ask him "Are you
happy?". He realizes his life isn't and he doesn't
love his wife, Mildred, who just watches tv all day watching something called 'The Family'.
Guy Montag works as a fireman, which burn books instead of put fires out because houses are fireproof in the future. On one alarm they find a old women on a pile of books in her house, in rebellion against society she lights her books and herself on
fire. Before she does that Montag steals a book. He wonders if something in the book will fix his life and make it
happy.
He stores it with other books he stole. Beattey knows he stole a book and warns him to burn it. One day they get a alarm and arrive at his house. Beattey gives him a flamethrower and he burns his house down. Beatty taunts him and assaults him and Montag burns him alive. He makes it out of the city to a group of outsiders who read books. They start going away from the city and a nuclear bomb is dropped on it. They decided to
head back to the cities ruins and teach surviver's etc. about how life use to be.