The word that first comes to mind about F451 is THRILLER! The reason I say this is because it has the perfect formula of plot and suspense to create an essence of worry.
THE PLOT
When first reading this book, I was lost in what to think or what to expect. I didn't know what was happening and what time period it was in. As I progressed through the book, I became caught up in the story once I started feeling that this was my own warped time period; the technology seemed the same but the habits were a bit different. People were brainwashed in a society so overly packed with wastes of time that it became very much empty. Montag was also going with the empty flow, until a girl named Clarisse planted an idea in his head - the idea of being different. Questions like "what if these books have real meaning?" and "Could this life we all live in nearly be a waste?" are subjects i believe he started thinking about. He smuggles out a book from a fire trip and brings it home. The plot thickens as the people he knows start to turn on him. The book ends with him burning his own house down and then running away from everything when he nearly gets arrested and killed. He escapes the police and the city just hours before a nuclear bomb lands on the city.
Now what a rivetting story! Imagine yourself at the center of that. It would be a perfect story of suspense! The action at the end that come out of no where is so amazing because it ties everything together. This book was a great one and will always be one of my favorites.
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'this was my own warped time period' What a way to describe it, Jordan. A perfect, fitting, accurate way to describe it. I never would have thought of it like that. But in all honesty, it is! This novel is what Ray Bradbury expected us to be. I mean, in terms of technology, no generation matches this story better than ours. Boy, have we proved him wrong. (:
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