Techniques- Fahrenheit 451

I think that the technique that the author used for this book was suspense. Suspense keeps stories like this interesting. An example is when Guy montag was going to burn down his house and he got arrested. Then his captain started talking to him in a way that he did not like and then all of a sudden burned him to a crisp. I did not see that coming at all because Guy did not seem to be the person that would do that kind of thing.

When Bradbury wrote, "Get up! he told himself. Damnit, get up! he said to the leg, and stood" (Bradbury 123). This quote is said when Guy gets numbed in the leg by the mechanical hound that has been watching him for a long time. Guy already killed Beatty and after that your mind does not know what is going to happen next. Is Guy going to give up and surrender, or is he going to fight his way through and escape. Another quote from the book, "I might be dead by noon; use this" (Bradbury 132). This happens when Montag is trying to escape from society after killing Beatty. He is at Fabers house and he does not know if he is going to be able to make it out alive. Knowing the Mechanial Hound is on his tail, he has to figure out a way to fresh up before the mechanical hound tracks him down by his smell. This is another showing of suspense because you do not really know what is going to happen. This is basically the climax of the story because it is at the top of the suspense in the book.

Suspense in books really do engage the audiences and makes the story more effective. Say if you had a book that had no techniques used in it like suspense, mystery, or humor people really would not find that very interesting. If your book does have techniques used in it people would enjoyit more because it makes the story effective.

Bibliography

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.