The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a fireman named Montag who learns about the journey of books. The overall mood of the characters is unhappy, with the exception of three memorable character named Clarisse, Granger, and Montag. All of the other characters such as Faber, Mildred, and Beatty are all unhappy. Americans today sometimes suffer the cruel symptoms that infect the fictional society in Fahrenheit 451. Despite the very deficient world set in the novel three characters still have the will power to overlook all of that and find the good, these characters are Clarisse, Granger, and Montag. Clarisse, a seventeen-year-old girl, is depicted happy because she can still find good things in people and …show more content…
“For certain groups, such as minorities, recent graduates and the disabled, they are actually sub-segments of the American population where ‘happiness’ has trended downward in the last couple years.” ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/01/happiness-index-only-1-in_n_3354524.html) The society set in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to America today, because the minorities in the novel are mostly the ones who are depressed. The quote says that the happiness level is trending downward, in the beginning of the novel, Montag was happy but his happiness level was trending down throughout the book. Americans today are suffering the symptoms of the society set in Fahrenheit 451. The overall mood of the characters is unhappy, with the exception of three memorable character named Clarisse, Granger, and Montag. All of the other characters such as Faber, Mildred, and Beatty are all unhappy. Americans today sometimes suffer the cruel symptoms that infect the fictional society in Fahrenheit 451. The reason behind the book being called Fahrenheit 451 is because it is the temperature of which paper burns, the metaphor was during the book burning.