In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray bradbury, a 40 year old man by the name of guy montag is a fireman. The only problem with his job is that he’s not like our firmen today, no instead he’s the one who sets houses on fire. Strange you might ask yourself, and why you might ask. Well during the time that montag is in, books are illegal and when someone is caught with books they are arrested and their books and house are burned along with everything inside. In this essay i’ll be explaining about the style of this book. About how Bradbury uses tone, diction, and sentence structure in his popular novel.

I’ll first talk about the tone in which Bradbury uses in his book, and his attitude on the subject in his book. His tone toward burning books in somewhat portrayed through montag and his adventure of finding out the true purpose of books. In the book montag takes a book home after burning down a house and begins to read it, to find out what hey say about books is actually entirely true. What he find changes his whole perspective about books and what they really do to people. Montag or in this case Bradbury makes books seem completely harmless and essential in everyday life. On page 82 montage exclaims “I just want someone to hear what I have to say,” this shows that he’s beginning to questions things, and how he wants to …show more content…
Diction is one pillar that holds up his cathedral Fahrenheit 451, and it’s diction that help the reader imagine the incidents, actions, and feelings of the characters and the beings surrounding them. Most of the diction in the book is both informal and formal, but there is traces of slang in the novel. For instance, on page 43 mildred mixes “or” in “husband”. She says “ Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband'r wife.” the reason for bradbury putting this in the book is because he wants readers to relate mildred and how she uses slang in her