In Fahrenheit 451 one of the author's messages seems to be how the government uses power to control the populace, and one main conflict in the book is Montag's battle with society and the government, and we can see this when he says, “Last night I thought about all of the kerosene I've used and for the first time I realized that there was a man behind each one of those books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper.”(55) This quotation connects to the conflict because Montag is battling with society and the government, and when he says that it shows that he is actually thinking about books and disobeying the governments and societies laws. This can also be connected to the theme since the government