The tone of Fahrenheit 451 is rather dark and depressing. The events in the novel lead the reader to feel like the mood and tone is very dim. The subject matter is very dark and there is no way of lighting the mood up. When talking about suppressing someones thoughts and inner most being people tend to not be as cheery. We also tend to believe that fire is supposed to mean warmth and unity but in this case it means taking away freedom of thought and being unique. They burn books in this novel so that the citizens will not be offended by the writings that have been published over the years. Personally I think that this is just the government trying to control every aspect of their lives. This quote that I found seems to point out exactly what I mean when I say the tone of this book is gloomy. "The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting..."(Bradbury 99) This quote is just so depressing! It does not give you warm fuzzy feelings inside when you read it. Nothing gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside when reading this. Unless you are a demented person, this book has no humor in it whatsoever. After doing all of these blogs I have officially decided that I have not read a single book that I have loved since starting Honors English. I hate reading things that are dark and sad when there is already enough of that in not just my life, but the whole world, that we should not have to fill our minds with it.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey Books, 1991. Print.
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