Set in the 24th century, Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of the protagonist, Guy Montag, who at the start of the story takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman. His job is not to put out fires-houses are now fireproofed-but rather to set fires to burn books, and the houses in which they are kept illegally. Montag soon began to question the value of his profession and his life when he developed a friendship with …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…Few humans realized that they were being manipulated and the computer was draining their life force for energy. Those that escaped the program fought against the computers in hope that one day, people know the truth about the matrix (A program design to put people in a world where they would be controlled, oppressed, and manipulated by the computers without any knowledge of it) and they will be free to live in the "real" world.