Fahrenheit 451 The Temperature at Which Books Burn
... The system was easy enough, the books were for burning and so were the houses which hid them. ... “It was a pleasure to burn. ... ” (back cover) This is the central idea for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 which tells of a dystopia where literature is forbidden and firemen burn the banned books. ... Not only does the complexity of the phrases frighten him but also the idea that his captain knows that he has other books hidden (106). Again his fear is in control, although now Montag knows about books and all their great offerings thanks to Faber, the English professor he visited earlier that night to learn how to comprehend what he reads (82).