Comparing Montag And Benet

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Knowledge you may think it 's a good thing but in this paper it can tell you that to much knowledge can kill you. The books that I’m doing are Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “By the Water of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet. In the books Fahrenheit 451 and “By the Water of Babylon” the characters Guy Montag and John are in some ways similar and different. Guy Montag and John are driven by knowledge. Montag exposes the truth while John doesn’t and John and Montag want to rebuild society. These point connect that they are in someway similar and different.

The first point is that Montag and John were both driven to go looking for knowledge. A Fahrenheit 451 example is when Montag starts to steal the book around him. “If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator then might they tell the

A Fahrenheit 451 example is when Montag told Mrs.Bowle 's about poetry “It’s poetry”(Bradbury,97) Montag told Mrs Bowle about poetry.John comes back for the dead place and his dad doesn’t want him to the village “Truth is like a deer if you eat too much truth at once you will die.” (Benet,#) It’s basically saying that if you have to much knowledge you gonna kill yourself. This ties in with my thesis that that there are different in some way.

The third point I have is Montag and John both want to rebuild their society again but better this time. After the city was destroyed by a nuke Montag and his friends want to build the city back up again. “ We’re going to build a mirror factor first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year”(Bradbury,164). John comes back from the dead place and after his father says don’t tell anyone about what you saw (this ties back in with my second point) John want to rebuild the dead place New York.”We’ll rebuild it again” (Benet,#).This also ties back into my thesis because Montag and John are similar in some