Heroism In Fahrenheit 451

Survival is the center all adventures; there are multiple environments which are set up in a way to build up the main characters and reveal the characteristics which truly represent the heroes who are fittest due to Darwin’s theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. Cormac McCarthy’s Novel “The Road” set up an environment, which truly pushes the main heroes of the story to the limit physically and mentality. Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”set up a world where knowledge and many other ordinary common values are forbidden which pushes the main character mentality. Adrienne Rich “Driving into the Wreck” exploring a shipwreck and describing many of Richs emotions such as the sadness, pain, realization.

As Cormac McCarthy set up a post-apocalyptic

In this world these ideas are backwards and are not seen as common they are in fact banned. The main character of Fahrenheit 451 is Guy Montag a firefighter. A firefighter normal job is to keep extinguish fires and save people form fires. Guy Montag burns books and starts fire instead of distinguishing fires. Guy meets his strange neighbor Clarisse mcllene who is different form everyone. Guy first meets Clarisse when he is first entering his house. She believes that people should not be burning books instead should be saving the books to learn form and have books for entertainment. She also believes that the people should be allowed to walk outside on the sidewalks. Slowly over time guy awakes form the reality of the false imagine that people have been lacing on the population for a long time. He truly becomes one of the fittest in the population die to his mentality and being able to see past the lies. The Frontier myth explains the character guy and how he is different form all others. He wakes form this false reality that what the government and everyone say is right but he comes to his understanding that that is not true. People are just manipulating the weak population and all the population have very weak minds and do not make decisions themselves. “We need not to be alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”(Bradbury pages 588-589) As Bradbury writes this quote he is explaing why should one person understand the lies of the world alone. How long should people continue to be following the false lies that the world has been telling them for years? How are people not bothered by the weird and unusual rules of the world? If one person was able to look past the lies why should other people not