"what is there about fire that is so lovely? no matter what age we are, what draws us to it? " beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. " it’s perpetual motion: the thing man wanted to invent but never did. or almost perpetual motion. if you let it go, it’d burn our lifetimes out. what is fire? it’s a mystery. scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. but they don’t really know. its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. a problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. now, montag, you’re a burden. and fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. antibiotic, aesthetic, practical."

In the distopical novel Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury focuses on describing fire in a very particular way through the character captain Beatty who utters these words while he has an argument with Montag.

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In the distopical novel Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury focuses on describing fire in a very particular way through the character captain Beatty who utters these words while he has an argument with Montag. The discussion takes place due to the discovery of the captain and one of the firefighters at the fire scene where they find out about a bunch of books Montag had hidden from previous burning trips. It is interesting to notice the different perspective about fire in this passage, normally fire is seen as a physical and chemical reaction and it is possible to find the literal definition in a dictionary. But in this case, the author describes the scene in a truly realistic way that it is possible to feel that you are in the scene while it develops, leaving a sensation of curiosity about fire, its interesting world, it effects and all that it could change.