In this book called Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are many characters such as Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty and Professor Faber. This book takes place in a futuristic American city where firemen start fires rather then put them out. Where people do not enjoy books, nature, and spending time by themselves. They do not think Independently or have meaningful conversations. Instead they drive fast, watch a lot of TV and listen to the radio on headphones attached to their ears. He encounters many difficulties when his wife commits suicide by swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Also when a women asks him to be burned alive with her books. He starts to question his life when he meets Clarisse McClellan. Later in the book she is killed by a speeding car.
             The main plot of the book is that reading has been outlawed but yet there are still people who want to experience books and what they have to offer. When people are caught reading alarms sound and the fireman go to the house and have them burn the books and arrest them. The main event in this book is Montag trying to be able to read and to un ban reading. He does this by planting books in fireman's houses and calling the alarm himself. He also gets help from a retired English professor named Faber. Faber helps by getting a printer to reprint old books. One day Montag reads a poem from a poetry book and it offends his wife and her friends and when he leaves to go to talk to a supervisor she sounds the alarm on him and leaves. They make him burn his own house and then arrest him. He gets away and they send a hound, helicopters, and a television crew after him. He escapes by going into the river and changing his clothes to hide the scent. On the other side of the river he meets a group of people who love books and was led by a guy named Granger. Enemy Jets during the war appear and destroy the city. Montag and the new people he met set out to find survivors and reb...