Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Tim HamiltonWhy did I read it?
North Idaho Reads is a series of events coming up this Fall. We'll be having a film festival, banned music, and a futurist all centering around one book: Fahrenheit 451. Originally written in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 was recently adapted into a graphic novel, and I thought I'd check out what this version had to offer.
What happened?
Guy Montag is a fireman, which means he starts fires for a living. Might seem a little bit backwards, but with perfectly fireproof houses, accidental fires don't happen; only intentional ones do. Why would they start fires? To eliminate books.
From our time, society continued to move faster and faster until reading a novel just wasn't desirable anymore. Watching a virtual world on your living room wall was much more interesting and made you much happier. Books became a burden. They confused people and made them sad. So, people decided by themselves that they didn't want books anymore, and firemen changed their jobs from stopping fires to starting them.
Starting fires is all Guy has ever known, but when a peculiar girl talks to him about taking life slow, and an old woman would rather burn than let go of her books, Guy starts to think that their might be something to those countless novels he put to the flame.
What did I like or not like?
Obviously, Dystopian novels are huge right now, and Fahrenheit 451 was one of the very first ones. It tells a thought-provoking tale of what might happen if we just lived for pleasure, and let go of reading and thinking for ourselves. The style of the graphic novel is rough, with a limited but vibrant color palette, and it was very interesting to read and take in.
Once again, I'm not sure if Dystopian novels are meant to be enjoyed per se, as they often portray dark and dangerous futures, but it was very interesting and worth reading.
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