He reads an excerpt of “Dover Beach” to Mildred and her friends, and this can be an extremely dangerous thing to do because he has a book. It takes extreme courage to break the law at all for the purpose of a good cause, which is what Montag was doing. ‘Behind each of these books, there's a man. That's what interests me.’ This quote can mean several things, but what sticks out the most is that Montag is actually trying to read them instead of just following everyone else, and burning the books. All throughout the book, Guy Montag stands up for what he believes is right and not like the dystopian government that takes place during that time.
The main character Guy Montag is known as a “firefighter”, but instead of putting out fires he starts them. His job is to burn any and all books that are found and in doing so prevent the people of the world from developing any real ideas for themselves. Montag has three relationships that help in his personal transformation; this includes Clarisse, Mildred and Faber. These three characters aide him in many ways and help him to make a discovery in which he becomes an individual. This novel allows the reader to realize how important interpersonal communication is to society, without it there is no room to develop meaningful relationships or new outlooks on life as we
However, before the election took place: Hitler issued the Decree for the Protection of the People and the State. This gave him powers to suspend the basic civil rights of German citizens. He was able to imprison political opponents and ban communist newspapers. Since he now controlled Germany’s police force Hitler could make sure that they were hopeless to the activities of the SA. This was a good platform for Hitler to establish dictatorship because the Reichstag fire was an excuse to blame the communists, something he mentioned in ‘Mein Kampf.’ Also with this happening it allowed him to make Hindenburg pass the decree for the protection of people and the
Bradbury uses symbolism to provide examples as to how governments had resorted to strict censorship and uses of propaganda to influence popular opinion. Bradbury lived during Nazi Germany’s terrifying reign of power and symbolized the government held book burnings to the firemen in Fahrenheit 451. These book burnings became a symbol of Nazi repression. The Nazi hierarchy did this to prevent the spread of revolutionary ideas and to keep the people in a proverbial “line.” Bradbury goes as far to include a fact in the beginning of his book, “Fahrenheit 451- The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns” (Bradbury). In a blatant way, Bradbury ties the entire idea of the firemen and their pursuit of complete censorship of all outside ideas to a historical happening, in which book paper did, in fact, catch on fire and burn.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury teaches that the voice of a people cannot be quieted or controlled. There will always be those that will stand up to authority even in the face of grave danger. Bradbury’s use of fire throughout the novel symbolizes the protagonist’s, Montag, journey of enlightenment, from its ability to take as much as it can be used to give. In the beginning of the novel Montag sees the world like everyone at that time. Fire was meant to strike fear in the hearts of people, but yet Montag says “it was a pleasure to burn.” He didn’t understand what the consequences of him burning the books had, and neither did the rest of the world.
Everyone has a breaking point; Montags just so happened to be witnessing a woman commit suicide while he was on the job. He didn’t care anymore; he simply wanted justice and balance. In life we choose what’s worth the risk, and books were well worth Montags time, so he began to believe that books were something
Faber also shares a love of knowledge and learning, and wants to help Montag with his revolt against the government. Together they create a plot to destroy the plans of the “fire-fighters” who are hired to burn the houses of all those who own books illegally. They decide to plant books in the houses of the fire fighters, a trap so that all of them are framed and will end up killing one another. Also, Faber tries to make copies of the books that Montag has, so that more books still remain in the world and will not become
The Perfect Temperature Many people believe that Fahrenheit 451 was written to warn future generations of what our society and government could become. The society in Fahrenheit 451 has many similarities along with many differences to our modern society. Fahrenheit 451 begins with a fireman named Guy Montag who burns books in a futuristic American city. In this futuristic society, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in Fahrenheit's society do not spend time by themselves, think on their own, or, by any means, read books.
It was a Wednesday afternoon when Book-burning-ben came to town and started burning all of the schools books. We cried for help thinking that all of our books would end up being destroyed. In a quick matter of seconds Captain Do It All came to our rescue. Captain Do It All first made sure that all of the town was okay and that we back away from the situation so that way we would be safe and out of harm’s way. Captain Do It All flew up to try and stop Book-burning-ben, Captain Do It All tried reasoning with him but he was not having it.
Andrew Kim Ms. Seemann Eng./Writing July 18, 2012 Life Lessons What can one learn about life lessons in a book? The novel Fahrenheit 451, composed by Ray Bradbury, teaches a variety of life lessons one can learn. The story starts off with Guy Montag, a fireman, who lives feeling compassionate about books and literature, which are illegal due to the government's fear of having citizens to be intelligent. Ironically, a fireman's job is to cause fire. They burn books from orders of the government, but throughout the story, Montag had the desire to change his fate.