{"product_id":"resource-718","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this speculative fiction work, the state controls all thinking. The general theme is that \"Books are bad. Books are burned because books are ideas.\" The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn books. Complications arise in Montag's professional and personal life when, out of curiosity, he steals a book from a burning library and is subsequently denounced by his wife and workmates. He escapes to a faraway land where books are preserved in an amazing manner.    The ideology of state-controlled communication, as outlined by Montag's fire chief, Beatty, is closer to today's reality; e.g., information highways, than it was at the time Bradbury wrote the novel. The author equates freedom with the expansion of ideas through reading, writing and conversation.    The novel is an excellent example of social satire and should generate lively discussions by technologically astute students. Although the style is fairly simple, and the plot easily followed, the emphasis is on character study and the idea of individual choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43661787430972,"sku":null,"price":16.1,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9781451673319.jpg?v=1762899573","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/products\/resource-718","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}