Examples Of Struggles In Fahrenheit 451

Mankind has dealt with struggles since the beginning of time. The first struggle commenced in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Even picking and eating the forbidden fruit. Human struggles continue to modern day with challenges related to war, addictions, government control and inequality. Struggles are inevitable and are consistently operating in everyone’s lives. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”(Arnold Schwarzenegger). Struggles are scattered all throughout the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and are also evident in Bob Marley’s “War”. This is the perfect song choice that relates to the tone of struggles

Montag, a fireman in his society, wants to have everyone think for themselves and become independent enough to realize truly what has happened to their society. He struggles with getting people to listen to him to learn the truth of what is happening and you can tell Montag is having trouble with this when he says, “Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”(78). Through this quote, Montag is saying not even his wife will listen to him about what he has to say. Bob Marley can understand this struggle and how their can be problems, when no one is listening. When he sings, that “Until the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another, Inferior, is finally, and permanently, discredited, and abandoned – Everywhere is war – Me say war.” (L 15-18), he’s wanting everyone to listen and make the thought of equality a real one, otherwise there will be war. Even with the problems Montag is facing at this moment, he is still