Response To Montag's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Novels are important because they reveal things about ourselves that we are to prideful to face. Humanity strives for perfection in a world were we are imperfect in everyway. The result is a world of unsatisfied, selfish, and prideful people. The book presents us with this question and then answers it “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared” Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless”. We are too prideful to let other people see that we have blemishes, and that we mess up. Instead, we would rather live a life trying to cover up our mistakes than admit that there is wrong in the world. Society has bought into
Naturally he tried to find his answers in the one thing he loved most which was the books that he read. When he found that his books would not give him the answers that he desired he decided to destroy them with fire. Beatty says in the book to Montag, “These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.” Beatty only sees novels as made up people and societies that make real life look unappealing and makes the reader long for something that they cannot have. Beatty does not understand that these made up societies and people are meant to be fictional because there is a greater message than their
Quality, as he describes has texture, pores, and features that tell detail. This is the meat of the book and this is how the story is formed as a sort of setting. After this has been shown the reader will take the pleasure to retreat to their favorite spot in order to crack open the contents and let the story unravel. When the book is finished, all of the emotions flood into the reader’s head, and they float in the world the novel left them for them. When they finally come to their senses the reader feels that they must conform to a specific character. However, none of this can happen if the writer doe not write something that the reader can enjoy. Faber talks about the three kinds of writers of literature, “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” This is a harsh analogy, but it is something to consider especially when coming from Beatty’s point of view that books have no purpose. Beatty states, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the