Fahrenheit 451 Final

In the beginning Montag finds pleasure in burning books and burning homes. He loves fire and the beauty that comes with it, but as the story goes on Montag finds more and more reasons to hate the job that he once loved. He finds a reason to risk everything even his own life to protect something he used to burn.

Evidence: Montag meets Clarisse and forms a friendship with her, and starts questioning society and the way they live. He questions it so much that he starts taking books from people. The first sign that shows him that society is wrong is when they burn the woman in her house. That’s when he steals a book because he realizes that she found some thing that she was willing to die for.

Evidence: Are you happy? Clarisse inquires him. Montag realizes that he is unhappy with the way society is. He starts going against the laws he starts questioning the control. The hound, burning books, unhappiness, death, and the electronics. He sees that the government only lets them see what they want the people to see.

Evidence: In the end Montag burns his own home down and loses everything. Until Faber is put in danger then he risks his own life to save him. Rebels against the government by burning Beatty to death, Killing the hound, ruining the televisions, and saving some of the books. Beatty tells him that fire fixes all problems all Montag had to do was take Beatty’s word for it. Montag finds something he’s willing to die for.

Life: Living in Orem for about two months I saw what fire can make you lose. The day before school started my neighbors house caught fire do to a cigarette. The whole house went down in flames, it blew out our windows, and took a family’s home. Imagine losing everything you love, all your belongings, and even you memories. When Beatty tells Montag to burn his home down he’s also telling him to burn his memories.

Life: I wanted to be a fireman, but if the job entitled me to burn books I would find a new job. I absolutely love reading, so I would have spoke up against my government. I wanted to be a firefighter, because I loved the idea, the adrenaline, and I love fire the beauty, and the heat, the shapes, and patterns it can make. It enticed me and gave me a dream. I think it did the same for Montag and that’s why he became a firefighter. He chose to burn books because he loved fire, but in the end he loved books so much that he gave up fire,
And his life for them. What has more control? Books over the people, or government over its people and books?

Censorship

I believe that kids should have a say in what books they read. Give them the option to choose. Yes some books need censoring, but that is depending on age. I don’t think parents should have a say let kids read their books mostly cause if they don’t like the book they will stop reading it. If you tell your kids not to read certain books it will confuse them because adults always tell us to read that reading is good. It’s contradicting if we tell them certain books are bad. Instead of censoring books just because they have one or two bad words in it censor the books that actually really need censoring because the books that everyone keeps censoring have good lessons in them. I believe that if the adult is choosing the book then why does it have to be approved? If it’s already got an adults approval what more does it need? Because of Win-Dixie is the first book I read in school around the same time I was being told to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer stone in fourth grade. I’m now in eleventh and that book is banned because it has fantasy? That tells me that kids can’t have an imagination if were banning books because there not true.
If we keep banning books what books will teachers have left to teach, or what books will kids have to read? Stop banning books because honestly if we wanted to read the books that were banned we would just go to the public library or we’d buy it. The only thing banning books does is teach kids that books are bad. I assure you kids have a good sense of what is right and what is wrong. I think if kids had a say in what they read they would be more interested in reading.