Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic dystopian society where a firefighter, Guy Montag, questions what he has been told his entire life. The novel begins when Guy, more commonly known as Montag, leaves the fire station late at night. Montag is a firefighter; however, in this novel, firefighters are portrayed as men who start fires rather than put them out. On his way home, Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse who is completely out of the ordinary. They begin to have a conversation about Montag's job, which involves burning books that are banned in the society in which they live. Montag and Clarisse begin to have daily conversations but one day Clarisse simply disappears, causing Montag to question his beliefs. Montag smuggles a large quantity of books into his home and hides them, because he and all other people are forbidden from having books in their possession. Eventually, Mildred Montag, Guy's wife, locates her husband's stash of books in their house and becomes frantic. Montag promises he won't get caught. But his boss at the fire station, Beatty, also discovers his books. Beatty tells Montag to get rid of the books within a certain amount of time, but when Montag does not follow the order, Beatty attempts to force Montag to burn down his own house. Montag then turns on Beatty and burns him instead. Montag tries and succeeds in escaping his town. He then encounters a group of renegades known as the Book People. Montag joins their group and one day, as they travel, they see Montag's old hometown being destroyed by planes dropping bombs. The people from the book go to town and help the survivors rebuild their society, now in ruins. Theme: The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that when you reb...... middle of paper ...... gathering. Genre: The main genre of Fahrenheit 451 is science fiction. Science fiction is "a form of fantasy in which scientific facts, suppositions or hypotheses based, by logical extrapolation, on adventures in the future, on other planets, in other dimensions of time or space space, or according to new variants of scientific law. » (Harmon 468). Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel because Bradbury bases the novel on the fact that in some sort of dystopian futuristic society, books will be banned and if you are caught possessing books; your house must be burned. Fahrenheit 451 can be grouped into the “problem” subgenre. I believe the novel can be classified as such because one of the main interests is Montag's goal to legalize books again and return to society the ability to become independent people and acquire knowledge to as they please..