Through reading Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury’s value of literature and reading is clearly shown. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind.” (Bradbury 58). To me this quote means that if we don’t have books everyone is made equal because we don’t know anything different than anyone else. I believe this is why Bradbury wrote the book, to say that by reading we can learn and experience so much more, and learn thing others may not. The violent and radical way Bradbury shows this proves how much he values literature and feels so passionately towards it. For example, Guy kills his own boss and somewhat friend because he does not understand the way the books can change things (Bradbury 119). Through his writing in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury reveals he is passionate about his art. He believes that the reason we are different from one another is because the things we go through and some of those experiences and values can come from the lessons we read and learn in books. Another attitude Bradbury shows in Fahrenheit 451, is his lack of belief in love and relationships. Not only did Beatty turn on Montag, but his own wife was the one who pointed it out (Bradbury 114). Typically the romance in books stay together, but in this book’s case, literature and books trumps over all other things, proving once again Bradbury’s love of books, and doubt in relations.
The perspective Fahrenheit 451 is told by is third person limited. The novel is told by a narrator, who conveys Montag’s thoughts and feelings, but not any of the other characters. I think that for this book it was a good choice to have it limited rather than subjective, because it would have caused confusion.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Print.
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