Controlled Government In Fahrenheit By Ray Bradbury

In the book Fahrenheit written by Ray Bradbury talks about a guy by the name of Montag, who is a fireman in a controlled government environment. Throughout part one and two Montag starts to realize how his government is controlling little aspects around him and starts to question the environment around him. In this controlled government, the citizens are banned from reading books. However, the firemen as Montag are demanded to burn every book in site and the place where they found them from. So instead of putting out fires like firemen do they start them by burning the books. Throughout the book many characters come into play in this plot one in particular is professor Fiber who is a retired English professor who loves to read poetry. Once Montag had found out that Fiber reads, Montag had asked him to teach him to

Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow, we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality” (Bradbury 79). What fiber meant by this was that people in the community are settling for what there being told. They do not want to question themselves or look in the future on what better can happen for them in their life time. They just want to simply stay claim and not grow. For example, when he states, “Flowers grow on flowers” the “flowers” can grow and spread out anywhere they want but instead of branching out they stay still like all the other flowers in the garden. It is more to say that’s it is a metaphor that us as humans now what works. So, we don’t try to expand our knowledge and make our lives more difficult. Us “flowers” just fellows everyone in the garden instead of getting tangled in the