Society Makes The Community In Fahrenheit 451

Society makes the “Weird Neighbor” In the book Fahrenheit 451 is a book about a dystopian world in which books are banned from society. I chose an excerpt from this novel, because I think it portrays the weird neighbor according to societal standards. In the passage, the “firemen” have just reached a women’s house that is believed to have books. Her neighbor called and reported the incident. The firemen break in to find the report to be true. They start putting kerosene on the books, but the woman refuses to leave. She is holding a match in her hand, which causes the firemen to leave her house, and fast! She wants to die with her books, and as one of the firemen say, “these fanatics always try suicide, the patterns familiar.” (Bradbury Part 1). The author of this book is obviously trying to get a message across about how important reading books is, and what society would be like if books were banned all together. I think it is

What all weird neighbors share in common is that they are acting “weird” to the standards of society. In this society having books is considered strange and illegal. Beatty, one of the firemen tries to convince the woman to leave the house by telling her "You know the law," said Beatty. "Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! "(Bradbury Part one). This just shows that society often classifies the neighbor as strange. The fireman is trying to convince her that her ways are strange and that she is obsessing over these books. That is another point that this woman shares with other weird neighbors, obsession. Most people, in both our society and theirs, would not die for books. Even the biggest bookworms would run out of a house if it were on fire. It is just common