What makes an individual goes against the society that they’re living in is society itself. In the society that Montag, the main protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, lives in, the people find books as a threat and instead of learning from it, books are burned by fireman. Books are compared to violence weapons, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it” (Bradbury 56). Books are also thought to be useless writing, “Nothing you can teach or believe” and therefore firemen are expected to burn books (Bradbury 59). People in society feared books because, “They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless” (Bradbury 79). Besides book burning, society encourages people
