I have not quite yet finished reading this portion of Fahrenheit, but as far as I can tell, it is similar to 1984 and many other dystopian novels.
Guy Montog is a fireman with the number 451 on his helmet, 451 being the temperature at which book paper burns at. Montog enjoys burning books and fire in general.
"...he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered." (pg 4)
The first chapter sets a futuristic tone based on Bradburys imagination and examples from the current day and past. This is not simply physical, but also socio-interactive painting a bleak, undereducated society where it is uncommon to even speak to one another and destroys knowledge based on fear.
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