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　　Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush toa fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year oldgirl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and aprofessor who told him of a future where people could think. AndGuy Montag knew what he had to do....
　　In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision ofthe future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in orderto burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up theappearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivialinformation is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire CaptainBeatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win byremembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give themslippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.That way lies melancholy."

Book De*ion 
　　Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to
a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old
girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a
professor who told him of a future where people could think. And
Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
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　　In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of
the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order
to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the
appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial
information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain
Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by
remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them
slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.
That way lies melancholy."
　　Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of
faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family,"
imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV
wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his
next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in
books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around
her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse
disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and
starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in,
and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books.
After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw
band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads,
waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of
literature.

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作者简介

　　Kristi Hiner is an English teacher at Wooster High School in Wooster, Ohio, where she also serves as the school newspaper advisor. A graduate of Ohio University, she is currently working on her Master's degree.

媒体评论

　　'Another indispensible classic' The Times 'Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction's conformist hells' Kingsley Amis 'Bradbury's is a very great and unusual talent' Christopher Isherwood 'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe' Guardian 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' Daily Telegraph 'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas 　　-- with dsicipline' Sunday Telegraph

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