Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is an extraordinary piece of science fiction. Science fiction is a genre of book that is similar to fantasy, but is not quite the same. While fantasy and science fiction are not real, science fiction is blessed with futuristic ideas; like a technology that doesn't exist. In Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a work of science fiction because it takes place in the future with a society that is very different in every way. They have futuristic technology like green balls, which are radios that they put in their ears. Society also functions very differently; people don't really think about anything. The government doesn't let them read books, because it makes them literate, so the firefighters burn the books to make sure they don't get read. In Fahrenheit 451 society, people fear knowledge and call those who possess it “crazy.” Montag is a character who at first acts like the rest of society, but throughout the novel changes his point of view. Montag who changes drastically throughout the novel, he begins to see that he is not happy, starts reading books and kills Beatty. Montag begins to notice how society is not quite what he thinks it is when his wife attempts suicide. When this happens, he calls the doctor and they have a machine specially designed to pump people's stomachs out of pills. He begins to realize how unhappy society is if it has to have machines like this. He also realizes that he himself is not happy. “He felt his smile slip, melt, fold and fold in on itself like a skin of tallow, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now going out. Darkn...... middle of paper...... like the rest of society. Shortly after, the city was bombed. Granger, a guy who Montag told was like a phoenix. The city has been killed and a new one will be born. At the end of the story, they walk back to the city and start again, as he wishes. Montag who changes drastically throughout the novel, he begins to see that he is not happy, starts reading books and kills Beatty. Throughout the novel, he realizes that he is not happy despite Clarisse's help. He steals books and reads them to see for himself what they are really like. He also kills the fire chief who was his friend. Montag is ultimately a dynamic character who changes dramatically in the novel Fahrenheit 451. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 -- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns... New York: Ballentine, 1982. Print.