Self Discovery In Fahrenheit 451

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Imagine a world where houses are fire-proofed and televisions are the size of living room walls. Imagine a world where reading books is illegal and individualism, thinking, and questioning is frowned upon. That is the world Ray Bradbury creates in his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. Published in 1953, the novel follows the metamorphosis of Guy Montag, a fireman in the 24th century. Montag originally accepts all of his society’s rules and conventions but eventually questions all that he’s ever known. That questioning leads him on a journey of self-discovery in his search for understanding when it comes to books and the truths they hold. Ultimately he breaks away from society and burns all of his connections to it, becoming a fugitive from the