Introduction
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a dystopian novel about Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman, but he doesn't put out fires, he starts fires to burn books because books are illegal. But one day, he meets a girl who sees the wonder in everything, and Montag starts to wonder: why are books illegal? What is it about them, or in them, that's so bad the government ordered every single one burnt?