Fahrenheit 451

So I just finished this Ray Bradbury's book, the first I read from him.

Guy Montag is a fireman, the person in charge of burn the outlawed books. One day, he's returning to his home and met a girl, his neighbor named Clarisse McClellan. He and she develop a weird relation (for the world they live) in which they pass the time talking, smelling, watching and listening the world around them, and she encourage him to question all the things... in others words she tell him to think (apparently the first time in his life).
A day, she doesn't appear like she's used to, and he start noticing something is missing... is not only the girl, but he feel like there's a hole in his life.
A few days later, while the firemen attend to a call, they have to burn the whole house (like they usually do) but with a woman inside... she insists on let her burn with the books, but before this happen, Guy take a book with him.
Then we acknowledge that he's been taking books with him since a time ago and have his own collection in home.
Then start a search to know if the books have some value or they are just like the government say they are.
Read it yourself.

Guy Montag is the normal fireman in this society. Enjoys his work and the time with his coworkers. Then he met Clarisse, a little girl who start talking to him, but not like he's used to, but talking about the nature, the things that people do, the what if, and more... Then, he start to feel different, he now has the need for knowledge and start acting weird, till the point he read some books. At the end of the story, he is something like a rebel, been a fugitive and conserving the information obtained from books. He start living a new life, with a new purpose, wait till the moment is correct and share the knowledge.

In this world we can see helicopters transform into land vehicles, the same land vehicles also can travel at really high speed, there's mechanic dogs, some kind of TV that covers the whole wall (TV wall, whatever) and other things. But apparently, the house that are fire proof tends to be similar to what is today. There's no mention of big buildings and in the outside of the city remain the country. So the people like today, prefer to live in the cities, this small concrete jungle points.


The human kind has left aside the books and now prefer the TV, which is very similar to our days, in which we can see that everyday people is reading less while spending more time watching TV and playing games in the computer or entertainment devices.

Can human kind be saved from stupidity? Can we hope to save the knowledge, the culture, the lessons? In the book that's the question planted. Can we?