Loss Of Innocence In Fahrenheit 451

Growing up causes people to lose their innocence. When people are young, most think the world is a happy place that’s all sunshine and rainbows but when people grow up, they are faced with taxes and careers. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets someone who fills him with questions to the point where he sees that what he was living in wasn’t right. The same goes for Pleasantville and The Wood written by Bobulski. Both stories experience a change that makes the characters see everything in a different light. A loss of innocence exposes one to the harsh cruelties of life. In Fahrenheit 451, meeting one person with a different outlook on life changed the way Montag thought. Montag is a fireman for his town but instead of saving

In a film called Pleasantville there are two main characters, Bud and Mary-Sue. They are transported into a show named Pleasantville. Everything in the show was pleasant, but when they got there they slowly started to change things up. They knew that Pleasantville wasn’t the only thing out there. The end of Elm Street is not the beginning again. The world isn't a loop. Eventually, everyone started to appear in color. The color represented change. Everyone in color experienced a new emotion or some kind of change from their old life. They began listening to different music and reading books which were previously blank. The mayor didn’t like this and he called together a town meeting that included everyone that was still in black and white. He then told the town, “Up until now everything around here has been, well, pleasant. Recently certain things have become unpleasant. Now, it seems to me that the first thing we have to do is to separate out the things that are pleasant from the things that are unpleasant.” (Pleasantville). After that he made a code of conduct. This one meeting caused a rebellion. Separating the pleasant from the unpleasant made it so the people in color had to stop listening to certain music, stop painting in color, and to stop reading books. To show that this change wasn’t bad and to bring together the town again, Bud and his boss painted a visual of what the town has become on the side of the police