The Mind In Fahrenheit 451

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Our minds are powerful, how we think makes us who we are, the more our minds open and absorb makes our brain realise who we are. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, it is shown that people did not think in a right mindset. In the dystopian world that Montag lives in, people are controlled by the government, they are their minds are isolated, and the importance of books is not shown as well as they should in this upside.
Life changes, which leads humans to change, some changes are little others are dramatic, some lives become upside down. As one learns what is in their mind and heart sometimes led them to explode.One of the hardest thing to admit is that you hit reality as Montag said “I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm …show more content…

Clarisse had talked to him, treated him like a real person she made him think about what is really happened in the world. The impact that she had on him changed his life quickly.Changes in a person can be from not know who they are, someone gets lost in their own minds as books expand it the mind. Books change everything in our minds, they make us think more critical thinking is one of the most important things in life as well in their messed-up world. They saw how the government wants to control them, the government's laws are ridiculous the laws were to control them. The people did not fight for what was right because they did not know what was right.One can say one thing one day and have a completely different idea the next day. The brain is not perfect, changes will happen some changes are seen worse, criticizing is one of the biggest things people are scared of.
Different society lives in different ways, worlds are not as perfect as wished. Montag lived in a dystopian society the total opposite, but was noi seen as it really was. In our world fireman with putting out fires Clarisse had the sense of the world she lived in as she said “Is it true that long

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