Quotes From 'Fahrenheit 451'

The fear of the truth and admitting the truth is boldly seen in Fahrenheit 451, and then when it is revealed to the person, it results in brokenness and sorrow. Beatty is a prime example of avoiding the truth. Throughout the book, he hints at knowing the truth, but covers it up by burning books and peoples' opinions, and then building technology full of junk. Because of this, Beatty is left broken and sad, and eventually, he pays for it. When Montag was burning his house along with the books, he pointed the flame thrower at Beatty and stood there. He turned it on and flames ate Beatty up, then he thought to himself afterwards that "Beatty wanted to die. In the middle of crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air" (116).

Society can change a person in a negatively or positively. Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag, in the novel Fahrenhelt 451, by Ray Bradbury. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.

Often in literature a character who is alienated from society. In Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse McClellan is alienated from her society. Clarisse is alienated through her abnormal values, her family’s values, and by not attending to society’s norm. This can show, through her alienation, her society’s morals and values.

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.

“’Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames’” (Bradbury 6). In the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a fireman, someone that burns books for the government to keep a firm control on what knowledge society has. However, through a series of events populated by an attempted suicide, a young girl, and an old man, Montag is shown a life where books are treasured instead of feared and hated. Armed with a vision of what the world has been, and could be like again, Montag ultimately meets up in the aftermath of a war with others that share his vision, and they begin their mission to make fire something other than a source of fear: a healing power.

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

He was in fight or flight mode and wasn't thinking. Now he is starting to understand how the government is treating the citizens unfairly, and how he can’t think his own way. On page 49, it says, “And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I’d never even thought that thought before” (Bradburry 49). Montag couldn’t think for himself because the government told him what was right and wrong. Now he is thinking for himself and seeing how corrupt the government is. Later, Montag gets caught and finally has to be speak for himself. On page 112, it says, “We’ll take this and drop in on your friend.” “No!” said Montag” (Bradburry 112). Beatty catches Montag with the earpiece and is trying to make montag feel like he is the one at fault. Montag screams back and says “no”! He is thinking for himself and protecting his friend by concealing and not giving his name up. After Montag screams “no” at Beatty, the situation escalated very quickly. Page 113, writes, “Montag only said, “we never burned right….” “Hand it over, Guy,” said Beatty with a fixed smile. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradburry 113). Beatty is

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that uses a lot of imagery in order to convey its message written by Ray Bradbury an American author and screenwriter who let himself through his imagination. Theis novel book is set in a futuristice American society where people are not allowed to read books. The story revolves around the main character, Montag, a fireman whose job it is to burn books, and the people that he meets and experiences that challenges him to his societaly beliefs. Fire is one image that is used as something that represents distraction. Sad,unhappy and not adventurous are a way to describe Montag.

Clarisse is known as an outcast and “guilty”. She lived on the edge and she was happy instead of the people following the rules to “achieve” happiness.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray. Bradbury, books are the root of all the problems that occur. In this quote Montag is expressing to Mildred on why there’s a need for books, and the quote also explains the warfare that will continuously happen all through the story, “‘Is it true, the world works hard and we play, is that why we’re hated so much?’” (70) Throughout the story Montag becomes more and more aware of the world around him.

Picture society in a couple hundred years where nothing will ever be the same. Laws will be changed, technology will be more advanced and no one will remember how life previously was. People will live in a society where the government will control everyday living, and technology will over power one’s mind. Dystopian films and stories are not used to predict the future but to guide you if something like that were to ever come about. One key factor that influences the story or film is how the author or producer uses stylistic elements to send a social commentary message to the audience. The conversational sentence structure in Fahrenheit 451 creates an informal tone. The story, being told in third person, contemplates the events from the protagonist's

“If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.”, this famous quote was wrote by the unknown, however the quote resembles a story written by Ray Bradbury, the story is Fahrenheit 451. “The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze.” , this statement can be found on the front cover of the story Fahrenheit 451. Firefighters should never be the ones to start a fire they should extinguish it, because it destroys homes and families.

She unnerves Montag and effectively leaves him wondering about his contentment with life: "He was not happy." After meeting Clarisse, we begin to see the changes in Montag. He begins to question the way of things. This change plays a key factor when they recieve a call to burn a house. The final straw for Montag is the burning of a woman and her books.

Knowledge is power, and yes, it means people have the ability to think about what could be the right or wrong thing to do. Without knowledge we don’t have the right mind to speak or go into great detail about something that we could be told. We would not know the fact on what could be right or wrong if we don’t have the knowledge to think about it. People in 451 do not comprehend much about the way their society is set up, therefore they are unable to think which results in people not having ability to choose what they want to do or say in the society they live in. In this novel you can easily tell that the knowledge of these people and their society do not comprehend very well.

In this novel you can tell every important thing happens for a reason. In the beginning of the book, Montag meets the wonderful young girl Clarisse. When they meet she talks about how “crazy” she is, but she really isn’t crazy at all. She just likes to read, but no one can ever know that. At the end of their conversation on the first day they met, she asked him if he was really happy. Montag replied with, “of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?” (8). He might think he’s happy, but everyone else knows that’s not the case. Soon after that,