“Stand up for what you believe in even if you’re standing alone.”-Sophie Scholl. Not many people will stand up for what they believe in if it’s unpopular or goes against societies unwritten rules, but being able to do that shows courage. The book Fahrenheit 451 shows that taking risks for something not many people believe in and standing up for it can change someone’s opinion for the better.
In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag starts questioning the motives of firefighters and whether burning books is actually the right thing to do. Montag is later called to a house of a woman who has books and is surprised when she is willing to die for them. Once the firefighters burn the books and are back at the station, Montag says “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury 51) He is shaken and confused because everything he has been taught to believe was changed right before him. This is the first place where Montag asks why and starts changing his mind about the society he lives in. …show more content…
Faber reminds Montag of why people don’t read or educate themselves by saying, “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of it’s own accord.” (Bradbury 83). Faber is hesitant to help Montag because it wasn’t firemen who put in place the policy of no reading, it was average people not caring enough to be knowledgeable or to question things. Every person who ever stopped reading was accountable for the way their society felt about reading and stopping it all
In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag starts questioning the motives of firefighters and whether burning books is actually the right thing to do. Montag is later called to a house of a woman who has books and is surprised when she is willing to die for them. Once the firefighters burn the books and are back at the station, Montag says “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury 51) He is shaken and confused because everything he has been taught to believe was changed right before him. This is the first place where Montag asks why and starts changing his mind about the society he lives in. …show more content…
Faber reminds Montag of why people don’t read or educate themselves by saying, “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of it’s own accord.” (Bradbury 83). Faber is hesitant to help Montag because it wasn’t firemen who put in place the policy of no reading, it was average people not caring enough to be knowledgeable or to question things. Every person who ever stopped reading was accountable for the way their society felt about reading and stopping it all