Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 


I have yet to teach this novel but I'm hoping that will change this year.  This novel will fit nicely into the unit "Censorship."  It will be paired with Inherit The Wind.  While Inherit The Wind deals with our more recent past, Fahrenheit 451 takes us on an adventure into the future.  However, both novels deal with the philosophy of what should or needs to be censored.  Below is a brief description of the novel.
 
 

FAHRENHEIT 451

 		 It was simple.  Everyone knew it.  Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.  Guy Montag knew it.  He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.  Then he met a professor who told him of a future where people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do.  And he became a fugitive in a flaming hell to do it.

 
The Scarlet Letter The Crucible Harold and Maude
Ethan Frome The Great Gatsby Of Mice and Men
The Moon is Down Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Tim O'Brien
Pudd'nhead Wilson Jonathan Livingston Seagull Fahrenheit 451
Stephen King Inherit The Wind

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