What Montag Learned in Fahrenheit 451 :: Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451

Simplicity vs. universeAbove all things, Montag loved to burn. It was pleasurable for him to set aside his ignorance, watch as the little papery ashes shrivel up, and wisp into the air resembling fireflies. just now that was before he took the time to ask why. Montag had to ask him egotism why he was burning these books, when he didnt even slam what they were. So he decided to take action and read them. Where he lives, this is illegal. Reading these books brought misfortune, like loosing his wife, house, and being forced to become a nomad. But he overly benefited from this. By reading these books and ruining his life he also gained numerous things. A few of these are noesis, feelings, and understanding.Gaining this knowledge is the very thing that washed-up his life, though it gave him a sense of meaning. Through all of this Montag learns the information he finds in the books was what he needed all along. The life he was documentation was a lie. He was an ant to his society, and it must use up come as a relief to finally realize he was no interminable being controlled by his lack of intelligence.Throughout this story as I started to become more familiar with the characters I noticed something quite unusual. In essence, the people around Montag only have two basic feelings, gaiety and sadness. All these people ever know is that they want to be talented and they dont care at what cost. They dont have any knowledge or understanding of the way things work and thats exactly what their government wants for them, because as soon as you have knowledge and understanding you start having more in depth emotions and begin request questions, which leads to trying to makes changes. This causes complication, and thats just the sort of thing they cannot allow in their simple, ant-like society. Montag gets feeling from the books, and the feelings he gets motivates him to do whats right. Even if everyone else around him is self centered, they only care about their o wn happiness.In chapter One Clarisse asks Montag if hes happy. She makes it seem like such an easy question, while in fact its one of the hardest questions he has ever had to ask himself. The loyalty is that Montag doesnt understand what true happiness is. All he knows is that he needs to make some drastic changes, and Montag doesnt even know how.