![]() ![]() The policemen got out of the car and one of them asked, “What are you doing?” to which Bradbury replied, “Putting one foot in front of the other.” That turned out to be the wrong thing to say as the policeman didn’t appreciate the joke. When Bradbury was 30, he was walking down the street with a friend when a police car pulled up. So it was only natural that I sat down and wrote Fahrenheit 451. The reason why I wrote Fahrenheit is that I am a library person and I am in danger of someday writing something that people might not like and they might burn. I was 15 when that happened, I was thoroughly in love with libraries and he was burning me when he did that…. “When I heard about Hitler burning the books in the streets of Berlin, it bothered me terribly. As he never attended college, he considered libraries to be his “university.” In his own words: ![]() Bradbury frequented libraries starting at the age of eight. Later he heard about book burnings occurring in Germany, Russia and China, and the story of the great libraries of Alexandria being destroyed by flames some 2,000 years ago. It is named for the fact that at 451° paper catches fire and burns.īradbury grew up in Waukegan, Illinois, and hung around the fire station as a kid along with his dad. Fahrenheit 451 presents a future dystopian American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” are charged with burning any that are found. ![]()
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