Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the struggle for freedom is shown through Montag’s perseverance to read and own books from the beginning of the novel to the end. After Montag quickly decides that his wife deserves to know that he had hidden books, “Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air-conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book” (Bradbury 65). At the end of part one, this event occurs and it describes how serious of an issue it was if they went against the law and kept books to read.. Furthermore, this quote from the novel proves that the struggle for freedom is shown in the image it gives to a reader's mind of how skillfully he had to

Also, this proves that freedom is never given, it must be earned is a true idea that relates to this novel. As Montag thinks back to how the woman chose to stay in her home that he and Beatty went to burn along with her illegal books, Montag tells Mildred, “ There must be something in the books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there” (Bradbury 51). This second concrete detail describes how Montag feels about books after he sees a woman choose to end her own life to stand up for what she believed in. The idea of struggling for freedom is promoted in this section of the book and throughout the novel as readers meet other characters who take risks and attempt to make the society understand the importance of literature. Towards the middle of the book Beatty shows up at Montag’s home and suspects he has a book hidden there. During their conversation, Beatty says, “Well Montag, take my word for it, I’ve had to read a few books in my time, to know what it was about, and the books say nothing!” (Bradbury 62). In order for Montag to form his own opinions, he has to disagree with other opinions first, which in this instance is Beatty’s