Books can inspire life changing experiences for people and society. Montag is a man that burns books and houses for a living in F451, but after he pulls the books out of the vent to show his wife, he starts a new era for himself and others. Montag tells his wife, “We can’t burn these. I want to look at them, at least look at them once”(Bradbury 66). After reading the books, Montag’s perspective of them shifts, and he feels the need to protect them. Another example is Frederick Douglass. He was a slave, but knowing how to read opened a new world for him. On his plantation, “After a patient waiting, I got one of our city papers, containing an account of the number of petitions from the North, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District