Jake stauffeneker Mr.davis hour 2 Montag lives somewhere in future america in a dystopian society where there is an atomic war going on and the government control people by not letting them read books for knowledge.Ray Bradbury vision of america's future was portrayed in one of his writing Fahrenheit 451.In there society Montag finds out that he is not important but preserving knowledge and books are very important. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Granger tells Montag, “the most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important.” this quote is telling us that as a person Montag is not important in this society he is like everyone else, but for the future of society he is important and what he does now will affect generations to come. Also if Montag …show more content…
School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? page 59. This quote tells me show much on how the book visualizes life, that slowly almost everything is becoming less and less important and that people are becoming less important because we are falling into a circle of life where we do things that really does not matter in the big picture.Another way to look at the quote “the most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important.” is that the government does not really care about you it's really about them and they really just want you to