Book Response

Along with knowledge comes your own opinion. When you learn a lot about a topic, or topics, you will form an opinion about what you think. In many places and times people have been hurt because of their way of looking at things, some people do not like it when people disagree with them, when people have different views, arguments and even fights will happen.

In the book, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a fireman. But his job isn't to stop fires, it's to start them. He has a job, destroying and burning books, and their owners. Books are illegal, they supposedly hurt, and pollute peoples perfect minds, and their happy lives. But what is really happening is, opinion is being destroyed, there is no such thing any longer. Everyone agrees with everyone, and no one learns anything new.

Sometimes people are afraid of people that think differently then them. They are afraid of change, and new ways of thinking always causes some sort of change. People all have their own opinions and their opinions are what shapes the things that our world is built on. But imagine a world where everyone were brainwashed and people with opinions were burnt out of fear.

That world is the world that Guy Montag lives in. And he has never thought anything about it. And he never would have if he hadn't met a very peculiar seventeen year old girl. One girl had an opinion, and she opened up Montag's world, and let him see it for what it really was. But people don't like people that are different from them, and a man hunt was organized for Montag when it was known that he read books. Montag fled, and traveled with a group of other outcasts.

Books were illegal, they changed the way people thought, and made it so that they could not be controlled, they made them speak out, and say what they wanted to. Books created fights and debates. Just as opinions do in our world. There are many people that hate others for how they act, how they think, and what they say. But that is bad, because you wouldn't be half as smart as you are now, if opinions did not exist.