Friday, August 7, 2009

How can I write a three-sentence summary of Fahrenheit 451?

This is a very difficult book to summarize in only three sentences. These are long winded sentences and massively simplify the events in the text. This is just an example, but I would be very hard pressed to fit much more in without run on sentences with extra conjunctions. You might try something like this:


Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books for a living in a world where reading is illegal, meets Clarisse, a thoughtful girl and a lover of books. She gives him a new lease on life and the desire to change things, resulting in him stealing books. Those books are found and burned, so Montag flees to a community of people who introduce themselves by a book they have memorized.

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