Imagine living in a society where the information received by people is monitored by the government- they only show people what they want. People are severely misinformed, but they think nothing of it (until they do) since matters have been this way since way before they had been alive (or so they thought). This is exactly what happened to Guy Montag in the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. Burning books for a living was the occupation of a firefighter in his society, and that is what he did. Entering his life, certain people made him curious about whether or not what he was doing was rectified. So, he clandestinely started to steal some books he was supposed to burn and read them. Once he started reading, he realized everything he had been told his entire life was a lie. Spiritual knowledge and clarity …show more content…
Ability to access knowledge should be an autonomy of the people, it should not be restricted. Age restrictions, however, are understandable. Children should not be exposed to graphic information at a young age because that may negatively influence them in the future. If you are of age, however, knowledge should be accessible to any extent. Clarisse McClellan was an inquisitive teenage girl who impacted Guy Montag greatly. She, along with her classmates, were subjects of no age restriction. She had an uncle who was consistently in and out of trouble due to the fact that he would talk about the “old society” before books got banned. She learned much from him spiritually, furthermore this is why she was so different from her classmates. Her peers and others her age were tremendously corrupt just like everybody else in their society since they were highly influenced by what they saw on television. Instead of censoring books from society, they should have censored violence from the children in this society due to the fact they were far more precarious than any adult in this