Why Are Books Important In Fahrenheit 451

You must understand the importance of what books do, so you appreciate and experience what they offer. In Fahrenheit 451, people in the society can’t comprehend what books actual purpose is. When Montag first realizes the significance of books, he has to rethink everything: “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a women stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing”(Bradbury 48). Almost all the people in the society don’t even think twice about someone dying like that. The small minority of people who think about it and want to learn more, it can change their entire perspective on books, like Montag. For the rest of the population they don’t know how to think because their

Books have quality, and you can see the detail of all the life in the book. To illustrate, “Do you know why books such as these are important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This books has pores”(Bradbury 79). Adding quality to something, such as a book, increases the meaningfulness of it. Compared to the parlor walls, Mildred just watches mindless shows and she doesn’t gain anything from it, besides the “amusement” she’s having. Mildred doesn’t want to talk about the shows she watches in great detail. In contrast to Montag, he want’s to discuss the book he was reading and experiencing. You can communicate ideas that are really important. A product of quality is those ideas are remembered and carried on through time and have more meaning to you. The people in Fahrenheit 451 are too comfortable with their day to day lives they don’t like the hear the reality of things. For example, “So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless”(Bradbury ). Since everyone wants to stay comfortable in their daily lives, they don’t want to change and experience the reality that books offer. They only see the most expressionless things and don’t experience what's really there. If the things you