Book Review

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It is hard to find accurate words to describe such a deep and outstanding book. A dystopian story that allows the reader to question our present world: people are distracted with shallow commercials and television programs, there is a lack of real connections between individuals, plus everyone seems to be damned to live as a zombie, brainwashed by what they (owners of power) want you to be: think, buy, hate, love…

In **“Fahrenheit 451” books are forbidden and hated, no one could tell why or how it all started, no questions about what was going on under the surface but Clarisse, the young neighbor who Guy Montag meets one day changes his life. She breaks the zombie spell on Montag, a fireman who lived as a robot with the only purpose to burn books. Clarisse showed him another unique lifestyle where she enjoyed chat time with her family, walking around the city by herself, reading books, and made questions about everything; all the things that no one else was doing anymore, but her family as well. Due to this, Clarisse was stigmatized as crazy and was sent to the psychiatrist when she was one of the few caring, deep people, someone connected with humanity, with a soul within. But she was dangerous to the system and so needed to be eliminated.

As the book continues, Montag itself starts to question his reality and its existence to become somehow revolutionary as Clarisse, sharing the same ideas against the imposed reality; Montag´s changes lead the story to an unpredictable turn upon his awakening.

I give it 5 stars out of 5 because the story is original and well developed as the characters, and it becomes a questioner about life; it is impressive to notice how nowadays there are several similarities with the book, which serve as a reflection of how trivial and soulless are becoming our societies.

**Named “Fahrenheit 451” because the required temperature to burn a book is precisely Fahrenheit 451.

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