Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

In the past, change has not been made easily. People become stuck in their ways and refuse to look at another side of the story or point of view. It forced people to make change slowly, and by rebellion. Events like the civil rights movement happened with only a few individuals coming together to change an entire society. This was done through things like peaceful protest and rallies, but also movies, posters, and media. Every single miniscule act towards change started with a few people who forced the world to listen to them, proving again and again that the individual is the strongest tool that society has.
People need leaders. Even if they all agree passionately, there has to be at least one person for people to look to to avoid dissapating

It can often be months, years, or decades before any large societal change takes place. It begins with a small group of people who came together over their beliefs, beliefs that they often have to hide to avoid being shunned by society. Someone with those beliefs will too often think themselves totally alone until they meet the ragtag band of people who think the way they do. This is so with Fahrenheit 451, where our protagonist, Montag, lives in a society where books are burned on sight and people do not think for themselves. He meets one insignificant young girl who changes his entire point of view. She does so quickly, just before her untimely death. The girl, Clarrise McClellan, is only sixteen years old. She calls herself insane. She reads, smells dandelions, and goes outside in the rain. Montag , having been working as one of the men who burned down houses just for having books inside, is enamored. Clarrise reads those books. Montag soon needs to know, what is it about books that makes them so wonderful? Once this seed is planted into his mind, he can never go back. He kills for his books, runs away from his life, and becomes one of the failures. He becomes one of the crazy people who read those evil books and who people roll their eyes about. Eventually, when the outlook looks grim, he meets up with a group of people just like him; homeless, albeit, and hungry, but alive most of all. Only a few conversations with

In small, stuttering steps. NWA is a rap group who started in nineteen eighty- six. They became extremely popular in the nineteen- nineties, rapping about their lives, struggles, and the societal issues they faced during that time. Many of their songs were incredibly controversial, especially the ones that criticized law enforcement in America. Many of these sparked outrage in many people, but one piece that is hard to criticize is Express Yourself. The song outlines the struggles of being a lower- class African- American in citizen today’s society. It is pointed out in one line that society has certain, needless expectations for its people. A line written by Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) is, “It's crazy to see people be/ What society wants them to be, but not me/ Ruthless is the way to go, they know/ Others say rhymes that fail to be original…” (Dr. Dre. NWA. Express Yourself, The Best of N.W.A.: the Strength of Street Knowledge. Priority Records, 2006). He’s pointung out, here, that there is a societal expectation that he look, act, and think a certain way. Many others in the music industry adhere to that expectation for the sake of avoiding conflict and becoming popular, but he doesn’t write and rap for that purpose. Young is only going to be himself, and write music for his own thoughts and ideas, not others’. Songs like this one inspire its