Jake stauffeneker Mr.davis hour 2 Montag lives somewhere in future america in a dystopian society where there is an atomic war going on and the government control people by not letting them read books for knowledge.Ray Bradbury vision of america's future was portrayed in one of his writing Fahrenheit 451.In there society Montag finds out that he is not important but preserving knowledge and books are very important. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Granger tells Montag, “the most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important.” this quote is telling us that as a person Montag is not important in this society he is like everyone else, but for the future of society he is important and what he does now will affect generations to come. Also if Montag …show more content…
School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? page 59. This quote tells me show much on how the book visualizes life, that slowly almost everything is becoming less and less important and that people are becoming less important because we are falling into a circle of life where we do things that really does not matter in the big picture.Another way to look at the quote “the most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important.” is that the government does not really care about you it's really about them and they really just want you to
The book Fahrenheit 451 is about a man named Guy Montag. Montag works for the Firehouse as a Fireman, but Fahrenheit 451 is set in the future. A future where Firemen do not put out fires, instead they start them. These firemen set ablaze to only books. They set fire to books because they are wrong, evil, and corruptive.
Montag is a fireman who is thirty years old. He has been a fireman for ten years; he takes pride in his work with the fire department. Montag’s job is to search for books and burns them because there’re illegal. Also, enjoys burning books. Montag is an unhappy, cold hearted and emptiness person; in the story Montag is described "black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.
happy and free Clarisse, and during one of their conversation, he, in an almost threatening way, says, “"Well, doesn't this mean anything to you?" while tapping the numerals 451 stitched on his char-coloured sleeve (Bradbury, page 4). As soon as he mentions the numbers and shows them to Clarisse, she becomes extremely uncomfortable and changes the subject of the conversation like those numbers are alive and deadly. In fact, they are.
By studying the principles of Montag in Fahrenheit 451 we learn that principals can change as quickly as you start to see clearly. In part one of Fahrenheit 451 Montag’s principle have been fogged up by the way his society is. He had no doubt that he was doing the justifiable thing when he says “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things blackened and changed.” (4).
Harrison Bergeron is similar to the book Fahrenheit 451 where the citizens live in a dystopian world where it is against the law to have books because the people are to be equal. The government didn’t want people to read because this would cause them to think and they couldn’t have it. Clarisse asks, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn? He laughed. That's against the law!
Throughout this book we can see people who live their lives without asking themselves if they are doing the right thing, or why am I doing this, or what is my life goal. Some characters may conclude that they want to spend their entire lives with their TV. Others to have fun. Montag had been one of these people for many years. When he met Clarisse he slowly began surface from his shell, and transform into a true
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces us to a failed utopia in a distant made-up future. Books are illegal. People cannot own or read books. A firefighter, Montag, whose job is to burn books, starts to wonder why books are available if they are illegal. Bradbury introduces us to Clarisse, Beatty, and this failed utopia to better explain the problem.
This quote is also showing that Montag is beginning to think about what knowledge he isn't able to obtain through the government censorship. This shows how Montags character develops his viewpoint towards the government's censorship of
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn”, Clarisse asked Montag. In the excerpt I read about the book “Fahrenheit 451” this quote made me conclude that the society in which Montag and Clarisse live in seems to be very controlling and strict. I believe this because reading books is considered a crime, and I think they are trying to make people forget about how the past was and make them follow their rules. An example of this is “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” This quote is talking about how the firemen are burning books that have information about the past.
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, goes from loving his job to rethinking of his job. Montag came in mind that his job not only hurt him but also hurt society. He began to realize that he no longer enjoyed his job. Montag did not like the fact of knowing that his job was only hurting other people.
How and why Montag broke the law is he had been hiding a bunch of books from his wife. Since he couldn't hide anymore after Beatty speech, he had to show her the books he had been hiding for a longtime. Him keeping the books is the reason why Montag broke the law and the laws doesn't allow people to keep books. The two people Montag confides in is his wife Mildred and Faber. The author wrote, "When he was done he looked down upon some twenty books lying at his wife's feet."
Fahrenheit 451 follows Guy Montag, who lives in a futuristic American city that is ruled by suffering. Instead of enjoying nature, reading, and thinking independently, the people in this world are expected to depart from their individuality and spend their spare time watching television and listening to the radio. Books are even outlawed because they promote thinking Guys works as a fireman, but instead of putting out fires, he sets them. The fireman in this society burns illegally owned books and the owners house. However, his whole life is changed when his free-thinking next-door-neighbor, Clarisse, asks him some thought-provoking questions.
Living in a society where everyone does the same thing and follows the same rules wouldn’t be a fun place to live. Everybody would act the same and no one would be who they really are. The theme in Fahrenheit 451 that Ray Bradbury is trying to express is that you shouldn’t give into society’s pressure. Just because everyone else is doing something doesn’t mean you should too. Be who you really are because everyone else is already taken.
“There are too many of us... There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone” (pg. 14). After Mildred tries to commit suicide, Montag begins to question his life. Even though the world is overpopulated, the government won't let anyone die, even if they choose to.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States claims, “We are as happy as we make our minds to be”. In Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, Mildred and Montag, a married couple live in a technologically advanced society where books along with any other items or activities that provoke thought are not allowed. Drowning in technology, the society absorbs in distractions such as television and earbuds that isolate themselves. Though Mildred claims she lives her life satisfied, she proves she rejects her unhappiness by escaping society with meaningless relationships, drowning in technology, and attempting to commit suicide.