The author uses a couple of techniques in the book. One of them would be mystery. I can never really tell where the story is going. Montag makes some wild and irrational decisions in the book that take it in completely different directions. It was easy to tell that Montag, Beatty, and the other firemen were stopping at Montag’s house at the end of chapter two, but I did not fully expect Montag to kill anyone at that point. It was not completely unforeseen that Montag would kill Beatty, but he also killed the other firemen. I did not think the book was heading in that direction, but then Montag was on the run. This is where Bradbury brought another technique, suspense, into the book. I did not know what was going to happen after Montag left Faber’s house and the mechanical dog showed up. It stopped in front of the house for a moment. It was full of suspense in that moment because I could not tell if the hound was going to go for Faber or go the other direction for Montag. The next moment of suspense came shortly after. Montag was being chased by a car that appeared to be police trying to kill him. In the very last second Montag gets away and finds that they were just kids. It was a high moment of both suspense and mystery. If he would have been caught then the story would have taken another dramatic change. But it turned out to be kids, and he continued to stay frosty while being wanted by the police. It was still a mystery where he would go next, but he went to the railroad tracks. I would say another technique used is in the story is the setting. It is in a future where people think what they are told to think, and books are illegal. All of these techniques in combination make this book what it is.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Print.
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