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Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Malala

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Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) and Malala Yousafzai (I am Malala) are very similar people. Guy Montag would be able to cope in Malala’s situation because of this. Both characters are oppressed in their respective societies, have a passion for learning, and fight for what they believe is right. Guy and Malala are oppressed within their respective societies.Guy’s society is mainstream, so that everybody is ‘happy’. "Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Bum the book.” (Pg. 29) The citizens aren’t taught history or literature and are forced to have the same perspectives and ideals. In Malala’s society,females are subordinate to males. They are not regarded as highly and are not believed to have as much potential. “We saw a letter taped to the gate. “Sir, the school you are running is western and infidel,” it said. “You teach girls and have a …show more content…

In Guy’s society, people are only taught things that don’t change and things that relate to everyone. “Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely `brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.” (Pg. 29) This ensures that everybody has the same intelligence, but feel smarter than they are. Malala’s learning culminates when the Taliban bans girls from attending school. “She also said I must leave my school bag behind because there was so little room. I was horrified. I went and whispered Quranic verses over the books to try and protect them” (Pg. 178) She had to leave all of her books behind when her family fled. Guy and Malala see something in books and learning that they are willing to fight

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