In the beginning of the novel, Montag was fascinated with fire and the way it ate away at everything in came into contact with. He did not think twice about setting fire to a house that books had been discovered in. He simply did it. He followed along with society instead of forming his own beliefs and opinions about the world. Fahrenheit 451 is about how Montag changes from someone who goes with the flow of society to someone who creates his own path. Many people influence and encourage this change in Montag, but in the end, he decides for himself what he will do. Beatty, the fire chief whom Montag worked for, held the belief that books caused mayhem, and he had an immense dislike for them. He was pessimistic about the contradictions set
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People have become more impatient, so all they want these days are faster computers, machines, and even speed limits so they do not have to wait for anything, and that is exactly what they have in the book. Their speed limits are so much faster than ours, so that people can get places quicker. When Clarisse and Montag first meet, she tells him, “I sometimes think drivers don not know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He would say, that is grass! A pink blur? That is a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway one. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.” (Bradbury 6) Also, the billboards in the book are two hundred feet long, because if they were any shorter, no one would be able to read them because of how fast they drive. Obsession with television in something else that is present in both societies. In Fahrenheit 451, people are so fixated on their television sets that they refer to them as family. They only care about what is going on on the television screen, so most of them sit there all day having empty conversations with it. Today, people are extremely attached to the TV. Children would rather go to a movie than read a book or play games, and the TV has become one of the most reliable sources for everyday
People have become more impatient, so all they want these days are faster computers, machines, and even speed limits so they do not have to wait for anything, and that is exactly what they have in the book. Their speed limits are so much faster than ours, so that people can get places quicker. When Clarisse and Montag first meet, she tells him, “I sometimes think drivers don not know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He would say, that is grass! A pink blur? That is a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway one. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.” (Bradbury 6) Also, the billboards in the book are two hundred feet long, because if they were any shorter, no one would be able to read them because of how fast they drive. Obsession with television in something else that is present in both societies. In Fahrenheit 451, people are so fixated on their television sets that they refer to them as family. They only care about what is going on on the television screen, so most of them sit there all day having empty conversations with it. Today, people are extremely attached to the TV. Children would rather go to a movie than read a book or play games, and the TV has become one of the most reliable sources for everyday