Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury: Wisdom Is Different Than Knowledge

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Wisdom is different than knowledge

In the Novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in 1953, Bradbury implies that technology and war are total powerhouses of society today and how the wisdom and knowledge of new things is non existent also highly frowned upon because the government does not want it’s people to be smarter than itself. In “The Sieve and the Sand”, Bradbury is still implying that the mistakes made in the rebellion of the government that are made is very hard to let that go and no certain amount of running can let it be escaped. In “Burning Bright” , Bradbury is still supporting the previous thoughts of previous implications that war is more important than education and individual thought process which leads to less knowledge of new things and wisdom isn’t highly accepted in their current society.

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The huge mistake Montag made was hiding books from the firemen which is a major deal in the current society, Bradbury uses repetition throughout the whole part for emphasis to get an important point across, he also uses self questions that Montag asks himself. Captain Beatty found out about Montag hiding books and that would lead to his death, Beatty had previously came to Montag and gave him a insightful lecture on books and how they caused fireman to have individual thoughts rather than conforming to everyone elses thoughts he says, “Read a few lines and you go over the cliff.”, That quote means that once you read your imagination goes into the wild and you start to think more individual and creative thoughts also you learn about the past. Montag is on the run from the cops and ends up being in a small part of a town where there are others who have

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