"Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury

Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag.
Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known as bad and shameful and if anyone had possession of a book whether it was in their house or in another person's house, then the house was to be burned.
Guy was never really sure what was so bad about the books. He never really knew the reason why he would have to burn down a person's house wh…