Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: History Of American Literature

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Fahrenheit 451 The Big Read Audio Guide is designed to unify communities towards the attainment of greater literature and encourage the Americans to discover the transformation that come with reading. The Big Read has fascinated several writers globally and as such has acted as a milestone in the development of literature and the related components of literature. Imagine and re-imagine a world that existed without books. The novels and short stories that were written by Bradbury helped to significantly shape the history of the American literature. We will first start off by an exploration of his groundbreaking book, “The Fahrenheit 451” in 1953. Bradbury’s passion for literature started when he was a young boy. He pulled books from all kinds ranging from the chronicles to the magazines and the newspapers. He developed a library from the books that he had collected from a wider range of sources and generated quite a greater level of significance from these resources that he had collected. An interesting thing is that Bradbury started his own newspaper
when he was in high school. Bradbury borrowed heavily from the works of the other authors like Jonathan Swift who acted as an inspiration to him. These authors also helped in the development of Bradbury’s passion towards literature. At some point in time, he could get into some of the libraries and find that there were not enough resources in relation to censorship and as such this acted as a great motivation for him to come up with the novel, Fahrenheit 451. At the age of 27, Bradbury graduated from the library and begun to publish his own short stories.
This led him to the exploration of the several ideas that led to the development of Fahrenheit 451 (the desire to write the book was greatly influenced by his personal relationship that he had with the libraries). A very interesting issue is that the entire book Fahrenheit 451 was written in 9days. Bradbury narrates that he could occasionally engage his mind during the writing by walking down the stairs, looking into the ideas by the other authors and at times dusting the shelves in the library. He wrote the book in a library which was quite cheaper. Bradbury was really visionary when he wrote the book about the impending problems that the television was likely to cause on the world of literature. People dismissed him saying that he was being deterrent to the technological
advancements. Finally it is worth appreciating that literature is as dangerous in the same way just as music for the dictatorial regimes. Fahrenheit 451 is an illustration on how the dictatorial regimes could be suppresses through the use of the power of literature.