Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Angelina Malkasian
Ms. Keen
English 9, Period 6
Fahrenheit 451 Essay- Option 2
20, March 2017

Fahrenheit 451 What do you believe? Would you sacrifice everything you’ve ever had to just read a book? Montag, the main character of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, learns to realize that there is more to living then staring at a screen. Guy Montag is initially a fireman who is tasked with burning books. However, he becomes disenchanted with the idea that books should be destroyed, flees his society, and joins a movement to preserve the content of books. Montag changes over a course of events, while finding his true self and helping others. Guy Montag is an ordinary fireman, whose job is to just simply burn books, and a follow the law,

"Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it? We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960. Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well-fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! I don't hear those idiot bastards in your parlor talking about it. God, Millie, don't you see? An hour a day, two hours, with these books, and maybe..." (Bradbury ). This quote shows that he is starting to realize and start to care about how many bomers are in the sky. It has caught his attention that he is paying more attention to the little things that he has not noticed

In Fahrenheit 451 the Bible represents the faith of society being gone and withdrawn, the Bible represents a new beginning, a forgotten truth. One example is when Montag attempts to memorize a chapter of the bible in a few minutes, but then gets distracted by the constant blaring of a jingle: “Trumpets blared. "Denham's Dentifrice." Shut up, thought Montag. Consider the lilies of the field. "Denham's Dentifrice." They toil not- "Denham's--" Consider the lilies of the field, shut up, shut up. "Dentifrice! " He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking. "Denham's. Spelled: D-E. N " They toil not, neither do they . . . A fierce whisper of hot sand through empty sieve. "Denham’s, does it!" Consider the lilies, the lilies, the lilies... "Denham's dental detergent." "Shut up, shut up, shut up!" (Bradbury 59). If you look closely at the words that Montag is trying to memorize, you can see that it very closely relates to Matthew 6:28 which states, “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin” (Kings James Version