In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy
Montag meets a girl, Clarisse McClellan, who will tell him something that will change his life forever. Guy is a fireman, who ignites fires instead of putting them out. He burns house where books have been found. The reason that these houses along with the books are burned is because the government of this society does not want its people to read books. He then talks to a girl named Clarisse, who tells him of a past where people were not punished for reading books, but instead encouraged to do so. Ray Bradbury chose the title, Fahrenheit 451 for this novel because he says, that is the temperature at which books burn. The original title, The