Fahrenheit 451-Q. 7

This author uses mystery and suspense to connect his readers to the story. Bradbury keeps you always wondering what would happen next and on the edge of your seat with different possibilities and outcomes. The thing I enjoy most is always guessing what he might say about the story or put down and then being wrong and it being something completely different. This happened every time to me. Like in Fahrenheit 451 I always wondered when and where Montag would see Clarissa next and every time I would be wrong. It really struck me odd when the book said she was struck by a car and died. I thought it was horrible that something so quickly could come up out of the blue and take her life away. This was one thing I was able to adapt to my own life easily. Thinking about all of the car accidents that have happened over the years is sad and makes me wonder if its going to get worse as the years go on or if less accidents like this will happen as the years go on.

The other thing Bradbury used was suspense. Suspense is a lot like mystery always wondering what would come next, but more of a temporary thing. An example of suspense is when a demolition team rigs a building with dynamite. You wonder from the time they say "fire in the hole" when it might go off and then it finally does. That feeling before it goes of is suspense unlike mystery which is when you wonder about the story and what will go on next even after you set it down. In the end, there really is not a big difference between the two because they both mean the same thing, and are representing almost the same thing in this story if not the exact same thing. Thanks to these well used techniques I was entertained the entire way through and I really enjoyed this book.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.