Humans are naturally curious. We are always thinking of new ideas, reality and being free. In some societies governments do their dirty work on keeping the civilians uninformed and clueless. The reasoning of the governments doing this is so that they can control the civilians and falsely create a life for them that is not the one they are destined to be. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, ray Bradbury presents a world similar with such censorship even though containing the people would never last, But Ray Bradbury creates a redemptive plot in Fahrenheit 451 through the protagonist, Guy Montag, a State fireman darkened by the government sponsored worldview, but who soon finds himself in conflict with his own identity because of a uniquely inspiring …show more content…
Montag meets faber in a park who once was a English professor who also loved books and lived before anarchy ran through the streets helped Montag in is struggles to give books a rebirth and to change his life. Montag in the end of the novel understands who he is when he floats down the river he finally knows what he will do. Montag finds th group who faber informs him about and they are called the exiles led by granger who memorizes books to setforth a new life in the future. Montag and the exiles go to the city to rebuild a society where books can roam the streets with out being …show more content…
Throughout the novel anything related to books have been censored. Books have been banned because they create a the readers own point of view and a new reality where as the governments job is to prevent anyone having an opinion or their own worldview. in the novel a scene has been presented where power and books have arrived and this is where Montag, beatty and the rest of the firemen have been alarmed of someone harboring books this being an old woman where they broke down her door and grabbed her asking the location of the books she has been hiding and soon the firemen piled up her books and drenched it with kerosene as this happens the old woman kneels upon her books and says “you can’t ever have my books” as Montag begs her to come with she denies and strikes the match on herself igniting her books, house and she herself, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” This shows the sheer power that books can bring to a single person someone willing to die for them and die a slow death books have shown the woman a life that isnt present in the society she is living and dying with her books will get her out of this life into a free one allowing to think for yourself and truly be free. In the novel faber is an English professor who makes a statement to Montag