Importance Of Knowledge In Fahrenheit 451

The importance of knowledge is a message that burns bright throughout this novel. Montag, Granger and his band of hoboes living along the railroad tracks, gave up their entire lives just to know what literature has to offer. In Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed and instead of putting out fires, firefighters burn any books that are found. In a time where we have the world at our fingertips, are media devices becoming our firefighters?
To start, knowledge is one of the only things that can never be taken away from you. Granger, and his followers have been living along the railroad tracks for years, but still remember the stories of ‘Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln’. Knowledge is one of the only things that is going to stick with you throughout your whole life. The only thing that can take way your knowledge is memory loss (sadly, unpreventable), but other than that, you’re good! No robber, thug or thief is ever going to take away your knowledge.

For example, if you’re out camping and you’re about to cook a fish you just caught, but you look in your bag and find out that you forgot your matches. You can’t eat the fish raw, so what do you do? You take out your copy of Bradford Angiers’, How to Stay Alive in The Woods, and find out you can start a fire using a battery and a gum wrapper, both are items that you have, now you can start a fire cook your fish. If it weren’t for Bradford Angier and the person who taught him that trick, you probably would’ve woken up the next day hungry and cold, or even worse,