Farenheit 451...The Beginning

As I first opened the book "Farenheit 451" I was startled yet intrigued by what the author was introducing to me. A dystopia indeed, the story begins with a firefighter named Montag and a young woman named Clarisse. They are in mid conversation when Clarisse begins questioning things about the past, our present, that have been forgotten and changed into something diabolical over time. Among these things we find out that it is now "illegal to read books", and it is expected that they be burned. In our time today, this seems insane. Also, Clarisse mentions that in the past, again our present, firefighters would "put out fires instead of starting them." Their familiar world is a land of confusion to me, and the book pulls me in for more madness.