Dominic Schroder Ms. Tabor Honors 10 English 28 March, 2023 Importance of Knowledge Everyone has mixed opinions about reading some people like it and another group of people hates reading. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury explores the importance of knowledge and its call to social action through the responses of Montag the main character of the book who is a fireman and has to burn the book but as he is going he wanted to gain the knowledge from the books instead of burning them. He shows his thoughts on how we humans act in the future, Montag shows us the importance of knowledge because in the future they are not allowed to read and burn books down not wanting people to read. Knowledge is a very important thing. We all need good knowledge and after reading books that Montag stole he understands why reading is a good thing and how he would start to benefit from reading them. …show more content…
Bradbury explains “Poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and an awful feeling” (97), this shows two reasons why they would ban books because of their powerful meaning and just how the authors write. This stops people from knowing the past not allowing them to read can affect how history is told. But also how they can make people believe what they say because there is no book to prove them wrong. Furthermore, when Montag goes back to the fireman's house they start to play poker. However, the Captain starts to talk with Montag, but not just in any way he is stating famous quotes from books showing how strong his knowledge is and how much books have impacted him. The Captain is far smarter and wiser than everyone in the town because he reads books and has knowledge of the