With Truth Comes Great Sacrifices Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury that was published in 1953. The protagonist of the novel is Guy Montag, better known as Montag. Montag works as a fireman, and he has a wife named Mildred. However, in this dystopian society, firemen are different from what we see in our society. Instead of being tasked with putting out fires, they are tasked with starting fires to burn books. This is because books had been outlawed by the government and the people felt that they were a threat to their joy. This is because books caused controversy in society, and no matter what, some people were always upset about books because they felt they were offensive. So to make people happy, books began to be banned to cause less controversy and disagreement in society. At the beginning of the book, Montag blindly follows the rules of society and does his job without question. He then meets Clarisse McClellan, who catalyzes Montag’s search for knowledge. As he begins to question society, Montag starts to realize that his society is wrong and oppressive. He starts to question the government’s …show more content…
The imagery of the “mural hung like a reversed avalanche,” with its “million colors, a million oddities,” hints at the chaos and destruction that result from the destruction of the bombs. While this destruction was never a result of Montag’s ambition for the truth, he lived through the destruction of his home and his whole previous life that lived in the city. And what made him live was his determination for the truth, which meant he had to live with the consequences of his city falling apart. Bradbury also describes that city being “rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after”. This personification that Bradbury uses once again emits how the city was utterly destroyed, and Montag lived through this devastating event as a result of searching for the