bookedbrunette 's review for:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

5.0

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“𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎; 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎.
                          𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
158 pages 
FC: Clarisse

What a delightfully traumatic read that feels  all too familiar. Books are tragic and magic  in their power to hold a mirror up to society. To make us believe how amazing people are and how corruption is buried deep within the roots of those amazing people. With the right circumstances, those roots blossom and empathy is the first pearl to get lost at the bottom of the sea. 

“𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑰’𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍.” “𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆?” “𝑺𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆. 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏, 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏. 
             𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍.”

Bradbury has imaginative language and a free thinking mind that makes this book feel so fanciful, when it’s purely about manipulation, future, control and the unreality of a dystopian reality. This reality is built on falsified information, intentional lies about history and a system hellbent on keeping the public “happy”. But what is “happy” without the power to learn? What is “happy” without family who truly knows you? What is “happy” about burning people alive with the books they refuse to part with? It’s not happy. It’s uniformed chaos. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s a riptide so beautiful and quick that you do not have the chance to scream before being pulled under. 

      “𝔻𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 ℝ𝔼𝔸𝔻 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕓𝕦𝕣𝕟?” 

Guy Montag is a great main character because not only is he flawed and working for a corrupt system as the corrupter, he is a changed man pre Fahrenheit 451. You see Guy unveil the fact that he has kept books secretly, you see him walk with the strange people and you SEE him try to save a woman while fire burns her hair and skin.  He is a human, but he was just a shell of one, he gets his humanity back by continuing to stray further from the life he knew.

“𝖨𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖽𝗈𝗇’𝗍 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝖺 𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝗎𝗇𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒, 𝗉𝗈𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗒, 𝖽𝗈𝗇’𝗍 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝗌𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝖺 𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗍𝗈 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗋𝗒 𝗁𝗂𝗆; 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝗈𝗇𝖾. 𝖡𝖾𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝗒𝖾𝗍, 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝗇𝗈𝗇𝖾. 𝖫𝖾𝗍 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗀𝖾𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝖺 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺𝗌 𝗐𝖺𝗋.” 

I think this book is frightfully realistic here and now. I think with books being banned and authors being silenced, it’s eerily familiar. I dislike how much of these corrupt characters I see in humans. In political figures. Even in other authors. All we do is argue, all we do is hate and all we do is forget we all were babies at one time. Innocent infants who have just been molded by the thoughts and opinions of the people around us. 

“𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙎, 𝙨𝙞𝙧,” 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙁𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙧. “𝙄 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙀𝘼𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝙄 𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙄’𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚.”

Things I’ve learned and internalized from this book: You’re more than what you believe. Don’t let society ruin an image you love about something you love. Don’t let it control your interests or your intellectual abilities. Reading is important and pivotal and WILL NEVER GO AWAY. :))) luckily Bradbury’s book gives us a taste of a world that will never come to pass. But. The plot having any similarity to my reality is terrifying nonetheless. 

Read it. Embrace it. Swallow it. And keep it inside. 

I know I’m going to. 

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙣-𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡; 𝙩𝙝𝙚 gardener 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.”