Why should people be curious about their surroundings? Some might say that we need to be curious to adapt and survive. Others might say that as humans we just crave to learn. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the conflict between curiosity and indifference to show that we should want to learn about everything around us to form our own opinions. People who are not interested in learning end up ignorant. Granger talks to Montag about how that people need to be curious in order to learn. You can’t force people to learn. “But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them” (146).This shows that people need to be curious to learn. If they are not willing to learn or what to learn they’ll just go through life ignorant about the world around them. …show more content…
A woman killed herself because she would rather die than be in a world without books. The main character Montag starts to question whether books are truly important. “You weren’t there, you didn’t see” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; you don’t stay for nothing””(#). Montag is curious about what’s in books because he doesn’t understand why someone would kill themself over books. In a world where most people didn’t want to read anyways. He wants to know the truth about books. “So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless” (#). People don’t like books because it shows the truth in the world. So you will only learn once you become curious about