Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, And Address Unknown

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Everyone puts their faith, and belief in something, but how do you know if what you are believing in is true? believing that everyone else is mistaken and that their ideas are delusional, but in the grand scheme of things, they may not be. Going against the standard does not mean you are delusional, but if you just copy what those around you are doing without giving any real thought, it means that you don't even know what you want. Knowing what type of person you are, and what you want separates your ideas from the deluded ones around you. How do you know if you are delusional or not? The books Night, Fahrenheit 451, and Address Unknown all show delusional people in different ways. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag lives a life like everyone else, doing …show more content…

This resulted in Montag waking up from his delusional state. He begins to question everything and doubts everything he has known and trusted in his whole life. With this newfound curiosity, Montag wants to understand books, even though they were outlawed in their community. Montag and others think of him as an outcast and something is wrong because of his obsession with books. Once Mildred found out that Montag was reading books, she kept telling him that he should be like everyone else. Even though she did not like the world she was living in, she attempted to get out of it by killing herself. It is the same with Captain Beaty. Find a quote telling him that it is wrong if you want to keep the books and you have a problem if you want to keep them. Even though Montag was the outlaw in his community, Montag was the only one who could see the truth; others did not. A delusional community, like Idek in Night by Elie Wiesel, can affect anyone. Idek was always rebellious, once taken to the concentration camp the Nazis knew this and they gave him power. He was elected as Find what he was elected to and with this power, and loyalty he made with them for trusting him, he turned on people just like