Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. During his childhood, Bradbury would have these frightening dreams, which later he transformed into books. He became a full-time writer in 1943. He often mixes science fiction with social criticism and writes about the ruinous tendency in humans to use technology at the expense of mortality as seen in one of his many books, Fahrenheit 451. In this book the government destroyed books to prevent people from destructive thoughts. I …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…be if books were outlawed. This showed how without books, minds were easily manipulated. A weakness in the book was Clarisse's death. The book said that she died in a car crash. Later in the book Montag thinks to himself that the government probably killed her. The thing I didn't like about this was that they did not go into detail with Clarisse's character and her character was relevant to the story. Bibliography n/a