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Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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Most of the time people don't realize how unhappy they are. Questioning this might make despondent feelings emerge nonetheless if you still haven't found happiness it's never too late to start. Throughout reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, an extremely pivotal moment in this book is when Guy Montag has a wake-up call that leads to profound thoughts. Between this, he realizes how unsatisfied and unhappy he is with his life. He was a guy in his thirties with a job, wife, and house however this didn't affect him in taking a new path. While reading the book there soon appeared different factors to finding happiness. The essential factors to finding happiness are to have purpose and meaningful relationships in life.
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This was an interesting take. In general people spend their whole life trying to appear as if they have their life figured out to the world around them, simply because they found stability in their life. In reality, they never truly end up being satisfied with themselves but instead put up a front that they are because they found an ideal job and maybe even made a family but they never fulfilled the path they wanted to take with their lives. Just like while Guy Montag was talking to Mildred she comments on how he should have thought about fire being a concern to him before he became a fireman but he replies by saying “Was I even given a choice? My grandfather and father were firemen” (Bradbury 49). In Fahrenheit's society, it seems that conformity is valued more than individuality.Due to this it forces people …show more content…

In “The Pursuit of Happiness: Characteristics of Happy People” R. Murali Krishna states that usually, a survey shows “married people are usually happier than unmarried people” (Krishna). Something to clear up is if you are married it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be happy. Marriage is a huge commitment. There are lots of ups and downs to add on. It'll be a different experience for everyone. All around the world people beat themselves up over trying to find love to have these fantasy and unrealistic relationships in books, movies, and even social media, nowadays you see it everywhere. This is not the only way to find a trusting, dedicated, and committed relationship with another person. Thomas Oppong's article “Good Social Relationships Are The Most Consistent Predictor of a Happy Life” states that for people who want to experience happiness in their life, it's important to not “forget to connect and build better relationships with people” (Oppong). By doing this, connections around us can be a lot more positive and make our relationships better. These meaningful relationships can come from family, friendship, and even pets. Some people need to realize these relationships are the things that we need to be grateful for on a day-to-day basis for the impact they leave in our lives. Additionally, Mildred and Montag's relationship has shallow

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In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the struggle for freedom is shown through Montag’s perseverance to read and own books from the beginning of the novel to the end. After Montag quickly decides that his wife deserves to know that he had hidden books, “Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air-conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book” (Bradbury 65). At the end of part one, this event occurs and it describes how serious of an issue it was if they went against the law and kept books to read.. Furthermore, this quote from the novel proves that the struggle for freedom is shown in the image it gives to a reader's mind of how skillfully he had to

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happy and free Clarisse, and during one of their conversation, he, in an almost threatening way, says, “"Well, doesn't this mean anything to you?" while tapping the numerals 451 stitched on his char-coloured sleeve (Bradbury, page 4). As soon as he mentions the numbers and shows them to Clarisse, she becomes extremely uncomfortable and changes the subject of the conversation like those numbers are alive and deadly. In fact, they are.

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“Do you ever read any of the books you burn”, Clarisse asked Montag. In the excerpt I read about the book “Fahrenheit 451” this quote made me conclude that the society in which Montag and Clarisse live in seems to be very controlling and strict. I believe this because reading books is considered a crime, and I think they are trying to make people forget about how the past was and make them follow their rules. An example of this is “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” This quote is talking about how the firemen are burning books that have information about the past.

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Towards the end of the book, Montag escapes from the police and he assimilated himself into a small but growing community of refugees who had successful fled the autocratic, repressive society that saw books as tools of dissent and rebellion. Bradbury’s novel’s takes place during a time of war and the city from which Montag has fled is destroyed by aerial assault. After sitting around their makeshift camp, the group of refugees decides to go back to the grim demolished city and Granger states “There was a silly damn called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself… We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we’ll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping into the middle”. Granger references the mythical bird

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One pathos of countless generated in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was when Montag begins to question as well as truly notice his life for what it is after talking with Clarisse about topics he never unquestionably talks about. After he is asked about his happiness, Montag begins to evaluate more deeply what is going on in his life and tries to find a fitting answer to this small innocent question. “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle bring too long and now collapsing and now blown over… He was not happy…” (Bradbury 9). Montag tried quietly laughing the question off by saying he was a happy man, but as he walked into the dark bedroom the mask he portrays as happiness

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Do you ever wonder how people's words affect someone’s way of living? How can words affect the way other people think or act? If so, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a good example to start with. Guy Montag, the protagonist, works as a fireman, but instead of helping setting off fires, he starts them, the whole purpose: burn books. Montag never questioned his way of lifestyle, his job, government, or even himself, until he met Clarisse.

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Chase Nicks Period: 6 4. Montag thinks that turning to books “can get (him) half out of the cave,” instead they only cause him to lose his wife, job, and home (70). At first, Montag has an assignment he is called to that involves a woman and books. When Montag arrives at the scene, the woman will not leave the house and instead dies in the fire. Montag thinks, “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in the burning house; there must be something there.

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America used to be known as the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that foundational attitude is gradually disappearing from the mindset of its citizens. If the Founding Fathers of this country were aware of the current state of the nation they built, would they be proud of what it has become? In my opinion, they would be disappointed in the lack of concern the average American has for just about anything, including but not limited to education, the rule of law, and the very idea of freedom itself. Because of this insouciance, America, it seems, is on the fast track towards destruction, similar to many of the ideas present in the dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. One of the most concerning issues surrounding

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Ray Bradbury’s novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ warns of the dangers of technology and blind obedience through the character of Mildred Montag amongst others. Although Mildred is a minor character throughout the text, her image as the poster girl of the dystopian vision of the future Bradbury had created highlights that in a society where technology is all-powerful and all-consuming, true happiness is seldom found. Bradbury depicts characters who have an awareness of life outside of technology to be genuinely happier and more sincere, whereas those who have conformed to mores of society are consequently dissatisfied with life. Ultimately, it is Montag’s realisation that there is more to life than shallow conversations and parlour walls, and the happiness

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