Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

between our world and the novel’s world, like why people break the law, how robots change the world, and how books are important in our world and in the world of fahrenheit 451.

Quote one: “ He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.” pg.5.

1. The narrator, Ray Bradbury is saying the words. He is comparing the soft fluttering of a fly’s wings in ones ear to the vibration that occurred in Montag’s ear when Faber

In Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, books are a very big complication in their world. Everyone believes there is something offensive about all books, so no one is allowed to learn from them. Throughout the book Clarisse, Beatty, and Guy discover the true significance behind books. The true significance behind books is that you can learn so much more from them than just going on the internet and watching videos or searching stuff on Google, and it allows you to use your imagination when you are reading a story.

Montag begins to think about what Clarisse said to him “Are you happy?” (pg 10). When he returns home, he realizes that he is not happy with his

This passage confuses me because he had never before referred to Clarisse as a friend, they had only know each other for a couple weeks at the most. Montag’s wife was also not dying in the book so that also didn’t make sense to me at all. The person that could have been his friend would likely never be his friend because where would they have never met if they weren’t already friends. Going along with the book it sounds like making new friends and talking a lot is abnormal so it would have drawn suspicion if they did talk and become friends. I find it abnormal that he would remember someone from a year ago and to trust the man he didn't know. Why would he do so? For all he could have known was that the old man was undercover and trying to trick him into something stupid. You shouldn’t trust someone like that when you’re only met once before.

Being told you’re happy and believing it doesn’t make it true. Fahrenheit 451 is about a society that bans books and promotes violence and TV. The people in Fahrenheit 451 think that they are happy because what they live with seems normal to them. However, when a character realizes the world they live i has not always been the same, they become unhappy.

Ray Bradbury had many life experiences that he will never forget. One idea he got for Fahrenheit 451 was from a police officer. He was walking with a friend on a empty sidewalk. The officer had pulled over and was talking to them about being a pedestrian. That idea was later used to describe a character getting shot for “being a pedestrian”.

“Great minds think alike” is a popular quote in the world today. It means that more often than not, great minds have similar ideas. But what if everyone thought the same way? Would we be so great then? The book Fahrenheit 451 explores this idea by creating themes around censorship and knowledge, as well as the discontentedness that comes along with a combination of these things. The author manages to develop and tie these three ideas together into a central theme by the end of the book. Throughout this novel Bradbury implies that a lack of happiness or contentedness is caused not by knowledge or ignorance, but by censorship.

A society that values technology and suppresses knowledge has been brainwashed into believing what others have deemed unnecessary, although not true. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury depicts Montag’s cold, lifeless room in order to suggest that the technology-ruled, dystopian society has been corrupted, leading to a feeling of emptiness.

The focus on external objects that have no meaning is unhealthy to people's relationships and connections with others, and can replace our meaningful aspirations into meaningless time wasters. People are so obsessed with materials that they put their human interests, relationships and kindness towards each other aside. Human traits, like compassion or respect for each other is lost because people replace their love for others, with love for objects and when people stop them from being with their possessions, they get hostile and become trapped in this cycle of obsession with things. "'It’s only two thousand dollars,' she replied. ' And I should think you'd consider me sometimes.

(MIP-3) This limitation of knowledge and memory is not empowering to society but instead this route of change actually causes the downfall and destruction of the world.(SIP-A)This collapse is due to leaders, who have now become lonely because of the state of others.(STEWE-1)Due to state of the community and the lack of emotions the leaders of the government also get affected. By making the community no longer feel emotions they have basically isolated themselves from the rest of the world. Both in terms of power and thinking. The original goal for the people in authority was to gain more control and they accomplished that.

Clarisse informed Montag about how people used to live happy in a world where they questioned everything and tried to make life better. Montag becomes aware that he had been living in a world full of lies and he realizes he does not want to keep living like this. “…He was not happy…He wore his happiness like a mask…” Bradbury states that, as Montag heads home to find that his wife

You don’t often think of books. In your everyday life can you honestly say you think of at least one book a day? Exactly. It’s just not part of our lives. Though, what if it was?

He started to care for the people’s houses and books they were burning. One house they went to, they asked the lady to leave but she said, “I want to stay here” (39). She made the firemen leave her there with only one choice, to burn her to death along with her house and books. The lady was so passionate for her books that she chose to die for them. When all the firemen cleared the house Montag slipped a book from the house into his pocket.