Fahrenheit 451 #9

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, The firefighters started fires. Most firefighters these days put out fires and these ones started them. They start fires because someone said that it is illegal to read books and all the books should be destroyed. Guy Montag is a firefighter. At the beginning of the novel, he loves his job and it seems like it makes him happy. The houses are now fireproof so real firefighters who put fires out are not needed. This is ironic because it is impossible for a house to be fire proof because of all the fire things in a house hold. There is the fire place, the stove, and even the oven. Theses are things that can easily set fire. I have no idea how they made the houses fire proof, but it must work if firefighters are not needed to put out fires. It is also ironic because when Guy is caught with the books he must set fire to his house. I do not understand how a house can be fire proof and be set on fire, it does not make sense. I just find it ironic also that they are starting fires instead of putting them out. They should not be called firefighters anymore. They do not fight fires, they help them. They should be called firehelpers.

The chief of the of the fire department has a secret of his own. His secret is that the fire department owns a library full of thousands of books. This is weird because it is their job to burn books, yet they have a lot of them. They Chief, Beatty, said that as long as he does not read them, they are okay to have. There is no proof that he has not read them. Once Guy finds out about books he needs help interrupting them. He calls a professor. The professor and the chief are the same except the chief is knowledgeable, but he does not care about books, and Faber, the professor, is knowledgeable, but he likes the knowledge. It is ironic that in the middle of the book, Beatty dies. This is a book full of irony.