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Conformity In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Although there will be people who would want a world where no one is better than anyone else, I believe that it is impossible to have complete conformity among the populace because of the fact that we as people need to change all the time. Nobody is able to just keep the same routine for too long before they decide to move on. In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, he talks about a world where everyone yields to conformity, and there are bound to be people who think differently than the government wants them to. The government makes a point to say that if someone steps out of line, there will be serious if not deadly consequences. There are also people who do exactly as the government wants them to. In this book the topic of conformity and …show more content…

Montag does his job well and he thinks he enjoys he it until he meets someone who changes him. He soon discovers that he is not as happy as he thought and he had been wearing a mask to hide all his true emotions. He also realizes that the society he lives in is not perfect and he becomes very confused. He is on the bed about to go to sleep, “ ‘I don’t know anything anymore’ ”,he said”, as he was thinking about how Clarisse had acted. (15). He is always thinking differently now because he knows that something in his life if not what it should be. That something that is not what it should be is that the society is wrong, but his father and grandfather were firemen who supported this corrupt society so he knew none other than to agree with them. He grew up in a family that absolutely, without a doubt were fine with it. Afterward, he has a job to burn a house of someone who had stored books. The woman who stored books did not leave the house, but instead burned with her books because they were so precious to her. Montag is very troubled by this, “We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman”, (47) Montag is explaining to his wife about what has been bothering him and why he feels sick. He is very disturbed about what had happened, so disturbed that he is feverish. Burning someone during a house fire is very hard on Montag because firemen only hurt people’s things, but his women committed suicide for books. During the burning, he brought a book home and and soon shared with his wife. At this point, he is about to start a very big change in his life that will turn him one hundred and eighty

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