Communication In Fahrenheit 451

Have you ever felt alone, like no one in the whole world understands what you are trying to say, or how you feel? That is how Ray Bradbury made Montag feel in the book Fahrenheit 451, he believes that books are needed for communication, knowledge, and also the ability to react upon it. He feels like life without these things is pointless and has no meaning. At the start of the book he doesn’t feel that way, then he is called to go burn some books at this old lady's house. Normally they take you out of the house and burn it and they take you to jail. This lady really believed that books were important. She refused to leave the house and she was burned to death. That's when montag really started thinking. When i was reading this book one of the

That was a big topic in this book. Montage had this friend named Clarisse, she taught him many things. One thing that she showed him was that if you rubbed a flower on your chin and it left a mark, then you were in love. What was different about her though was the fact that she was curious and that she liked to talk with other people. The people that lived there thought that she was so weird because that was something that they didn’t want. Then along with that she was curious, most of the time what the people did was sit and watch tv, and with her always wondering around people just didn’t like her. Then later, once montage realizes that those things are good, his wife tells him this, “ The same girl, McClellan. McClellan, Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure. But I think she's dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead.” That makes montage want to know even more about books. Along with that is the ability to react upon what you read. When Montag was at the hobo camp, they told him that they remembered parts of books so they didn't have to carry them around. Some of the things that they had remembered was parts of the bible. They wanted to go around and share with the people but they couldn’t because they were wanted. Once the city got blown up they went back and montage remembered a bible verse, that's when he knew that we wanted to go to a new place and tell them about books and how great they