Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic dystopian society where a firefighter, Guy Montag, questions what he has been told his entire life. The novel begins when Guy, more commonly called Montag, leaves the firehouse late at night. Montag is a firefighter; however, in this novel, firefighters are depicted as men who start fires rather than put them out. On his way home, Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse who is truly out of the ordinary. They begin to have a conversation about Montag's job, which involves burning books that are forbidden in the society they live in. Montag and Clarisse begin to have daily conversations but one day Clarisse simply disappears, and this makes Montag question his beliefs. Montag somehow smuggles a large amount of books into his house and hides them since he and all other people are forbidden to have books in their possession. Eventually, Mildred Montag, Guy's wife, locates her husband's stash of books in their home and becomes frantic. Montag promises he won't be caught. However, his boss at the firehouse, Beatty, also discovers his books. Beatty tells Montag to get rid of the books within a certain period of time, but when Montag does not follow the order, Beatty attempts to make Montag burn down his own house. Montag then turns on Beatty and burns him instead. Montag tries and succeeds in escaping his city. He then encounters a group of renegades known as the Book People. Montag joins their group and one day, while they are traveling, they see Montag's old hometown being destroyed by planes dropping bombs. The People of Books go to the city and help the survivors rebuild their society, which was now in ruins. Theme: The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that when you stay...... middle of paper ...... gathering. Genre: The main genre of Fahrenheit 451 is science fiction. Science fiction is “a form of fantasy in which scientific facts, assumptions, or hypotheses are based, by logical extrapolation, on adventures in the future, on other planets, in other dimensions in time or space, or according to new variants of scientific law" ( Harmon 468). Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel because Bradbury bases the novel on the fact that in some kind of dystopian futuristic society books will be banned and if you are caught possessing books your house must be burned down in the "problem" subgenre. I believe the novel can be classified as such because one of the main interests is Montag's goal to legalize books again and restore society's ability to become independent people and acquire knowledge at will...