“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal,” (Bradbury 58). A central theme in Fahrenheit 451 is conformity. In the futuristic metropolis Montag lives in, everyone has been taught to conform, to not think, to stop reading and learning, and to follow and trust the government in a way that resembles a Big Brother-esque society. Anyone caught owning books is arrested or burned alive in his/her home because a reader represents a danger to the stability and status quo of society. Even children recognize outsiders, and they do not take kindly to them.
“Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the
“Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the