Fahrenheit 451 #1

Comments:

• The author of this novel, Ray Bradbury went through a journey in order to write this book.
• He wrote this novel in the basement of a library
• He found many typewriters in the basement of the library and paid to write his novel. He had to pay $9.80 in order to get this done. At this time this was allot of money.
• In order to write his book he put a mixture of quotes from other books.
• He found his wife Maggie in a bookstore in 1946.

Questions:

• What made him name this novel Fahrenheit 451?
• What was so significant about the number 451?
• In order to write this book he used different sources from different books?
• Did he write the introduction after he wrote the whole book?

Words:

• quixotic(pg8)-impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.
• Kerosene(pg12)-a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc
• reignite(pg18)-ignite anew, as of something burning

Literary Terms:

• "I've always written at the top of my lungs and from secret motives within."(pg 5)-Metaphor
• ".. pounding away like a crazed chimp.."(pg 15)- Simile

Summary:

• These couple of pages basically sums up the introduction to his beginning of writing this story and how it came about.