Fahrenheit 451: Engaging the Audience

There are many engaging techniques used by Bradbury to keep the audiences interested in the novel.  One is suspense.  Suspense is a very important to a novel because if the reader is not left wondering, there is basically no desire to keep reading. An example is the beginning.  The reader was instantly entranced by the strange feeling he started the novel with.  Then, he saw a girl.  He used Montag's uncertainty to make the reader wonder what was going to happen.  Would something pop out at him? Would he see a person? Would he see nothing?  All of these questions ran through my head in just the first two pages! There was a great suspense that lingered through each page and chapter and it made the novel way easier and better to read!  Another mechanism used by Bradbury was the futuristic aspect.  This made the novel more interesting to read because he could create futuristic inventions and creations.  This made the book fun to read because no one has ever heard of a "Mechanical Hound".  This made the novel way easier to imagine and read.  Also, the fact that this story could be in our future is very engaging.  You do not want to live in a world like this novel.  It would be very scary and very discouraging to be censured in such a way like in this novel.  The fact that this could be our world in a matter of years made the readers keep reading so they could know what not to do and what to do if this was to happen to our society.   One last technique used by Bradbury was mystery.  It was a constant mystery to think about what would be the fate of Montag.  It was very mysterious because you never knew what would happen next.  On one instance, Beatty does not seem like a huge threat to Montag.  Next thing you know, Beatty is threatening Montag's life!  This slight mystery added so much engaging energy in the novel.  This technique is great to use in such a creepy subject such as this.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1996. Print.