Fahrenheit 451: Question 7

             Fahrenheit 451 was very easy and quick to read because it is an attention keeper. It was never boring and hard to put down. This was due to a couple of things different components in the book. The first way Bradbury catches and keeps the attention of the reader is by using suspense. He builds important scenes up so that they catch the attention of the reader once again, and it sticks with them as they continue to read the book. The fist scene full of suspense is when the firemen go to the house with the elderly woman who refuses to leave and wishes to be burned with her books. Then when we are feeling sad a book happens to fall in his hands. The suspense builds when he slips it into his jacket (Bradbury 39).  We are then more interested to find out what will happen next and if there will be more suspenseful moments.  Bradbury uses suspense throughout Fahrenheit 451 to keep the reader continuing to read and enjoy the novel.

            Another technique that Ray Bradbury uses in the novel is descriptive language. He describes situation very clearly so that the reader can picture the scenario in their head, and almost see themselves in the scene. “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history" (Bradbury 3). Bradbury describes this scene with great vivid details so we can know exactly what he was trying to make us feel and see.

            Bradbury using both of those techniques in the novel makes it more effective. It keeps the reader continuing to read; therefore they don’t feel like it is work to read through the novel. This make the reason he wrote it come across more effectively. 

  Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Print.