Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.

He started to care for the people’s houses and books they were burning. One house they went to, they asked the lady to leave but she said, “I want to stay here” (39). She made the firemen leave her there with only one choice, to burn her to death along with her house and books. The lady was so passionate for her books that she chose to die for them. When all the firemen cleared the house Montag slipped a book from the house into his pocket.

This passage confuses me because he had never before referred to Clarisse as a friend, they had only know each other for a couple weeks at the most. Montag’s wife was also not dying in the book so that also didn’t make sense to me at all. The person that could have been his friend would likely never be his friend because where would they have never met if they weren’t already friends. Going along with the book it sounds like making new friends and talking a lot is abnormal so it would have drawn suspicion if they did talk and become friends. I find it abnormal that he would remember someone from a year ago and to trust the man he didn't know. Why would he do so? For all he could have known was that the old man was undercover and trying to trick him into something stupid. You shouldn’t trust someone like that when you’re only met once before.

Ray Bradbury had many life experiences that he will never forget. One idea he got for Fahrenheit 451 was from a police officer. He was walking with a friend on a empty sidewalk. The officer had pulled over and was talking to them about being a pedestrian. That idea was later used to describe a character getting shot for “being a pedestrian”.

Being told you’re happy and believing it doesn’t make it true. Fahrenheit 451 is about a society that bans books and promotes violence and TV. The people in Fahrenheit 451 think that they are happy because what they live with seems normal to them. However, when a character realizes the world they live i has not always been the same, they become unhappy.

Finding the hostility of reading books is odd and peculiar but what if the world is full of people that feel inferior to those that know more than them or who have read a wider variation of books, and in that they simply decide that knowledge is not a power we need, nor literature. In a futuristic world where few people see meaning and potential one can find people like Clarisse McClellan to bring the light into people like Guy Montag's world and to see through the modern simulation of life without books filled with fast cars, loud music, and advertisements for distraction from a life eerie and sinister that lead deeper in discussion of religion and discrimination. The people of the city are ignorant to the knowledge, messages, and life lessons that the books they are burning hold. Those that read books are punished by having their house with all possessions burned at their feet and if not that then they are on the run with other renegades that crave the information stored in books.

“Great minds think alike” is a popular quote in the world today. It means that more often than not, great minds have similar ideas. But what if everyone thought the same way? Would we be so great then? The book Fahrenheit 451 explores this idea by creating themes around censorship and knowledge, as well as the discontentedness that comes along with a combination of these things. The author manages to develop and tie these three ideas together into a central theme by the end of the book. Throughout this novel Bradbury implies that a lack of happiness or contentedness is caused not by knowledge or ignorance, but by censorship.

A society that values technology and suppresses knowledge has been brainwashed into believing what others have deemed unnecessary, although not true. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury depicts Montag’s cold, lifeless room in order to suggest that the technology-ruled, dystopian society has been corrupted, leading to a feeling of emptiness.

1. The narrator, Ray Bradbury is saying the words. He is comparing the soft fluttering of a fly’s wings in ones ear to the vibration that occurred in Montag’s ear when Faber

You don’t often think of books. In your everyday life can you honestly say you think of at least one book a day? Exactly. It’s just not part of our lives. Though, what if it was?

Clarisse informed Montag about how people used to live happy in a world where they questioned everything and tried to make life better. Montag becomes aware that he had been living in a world full of lies and he realizes he does not want to keep living like this. “…He was not happy…He wore his happiness like a mask…” Bradbury states that, as Montag heads home to find that his wife

(MIP-3) This limitation of knowledge and memory is not empowering to society but instead this route of change actually causes the downfall and destruction of the world.(SIP-A)This collapse is due to leaders, who have now become lonely because of the state of others.(STEWE-1)Due to state of the community and the lack of emotions the leaders of the government also get affected. By making the community no longer feel emotions they have basically isolated themselves from the rest of the world. Both in terms of power and thinking. The original goal for the people in authority was to gain more control and they accomplished that.

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 presents readers with multiple themes. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned and firemen create fires instead of putting them out. Bradbury portrays the society as dystopian. Bradbury crafted the novel to be interpreted intellectually. The characters claim to be happy. However, the reader can conclude otherwise. Bradbury creates a question for the reader to answer: Is ignorance bliss or does the ability to think for oneself create happiness? Bradbury shows the importance of self-reflection, happiness and the ability to think for oneself as well as isolation due to technology, and the importance of nature and animals. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the stories’ themes through characterization and symbols.

The focus on external objects that have no meaning is unhealthy to people's relationships and connections with others, and can replace our meaningful aspirations into meaningless time wasters. People are so obsessed with materials that they put their human interests, relationships and kindness towards each other aside. Human traits, like compassion or respect for each other is lost because people replace their love for others, with love for objects and when people stop them from being with their possessions, they get hostile and become trapped in this cycle of obsession with things. "'It’s only two thousand dollars,' she replied. ' And I should think you'd consider me sometimes.

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” -Yehuda Bauer. In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray bradbury, Montag did not stand by and observe the corruption of the government, but instead took matters into his own hands and rebelled for what he believed in. A person is able to rebel when they cannot think their own way, when they are forced to do something, and the uneasiness of being unsafe.