Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature set in a dark, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a firefighter. In his world, where television reigns and literature is on the brink of extinction, firefighters start fires instead of extinguishing them. His job is to destroy the most illegal good, the printed book, along with the houses where they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and misery his actions cause, returning each day to his monotonous life and his wife Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." However, he then meets the eccentric young neighbor Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear, and to a present where one can truly see the world.