Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a classic among books. The typical dystopian novel its about a future where were ruled by an oppressing government strives to brainwash everyone through the tv and elimination any signs of free speech. I actually truly enjoyed the story line. We follow Guy Montag though out his life, seeing him from what appears to be a well off citizen, obeys the rules and heading towards a promotion at his job, to a run away criminal. His character really excited me, he was very mundane but in an interesting way if that can make sense. He does his duty at work, comes home, eats sleeps and wakes up to do it again. Hes not the type to create waves, but also in my opinion not the type for law enforcement. I question the reason he became a fire fighter in the first place. He dosent really seem to have a joy for it like his commanding officer, and he seems to go through every day with a ho hum feeling about him. I assumed that he just did it for the money, just like thousands if not millions of americans do every day in the real world. His wife was a perfect character to show what the government was doing to people. She really  and truly believed that the people in the tv cared about her, that the 'man' or the government gave thought to her as an individual and not part of the mass. She did what she was told and was very obedient and reliant on the tv. Even at the beginning she's seen to be distant from montag because she's watching the tv. As the movie progresses, we see the government brainwashing go even further when they treat her for an overdose and she comes out of it even more comatose to her surroundings than before. The one difference it seams is that she is very sexually aroused most of the time, another plot form the government to control the masses by giving the male, or the head of the house, something to placate him into a happy and un eventful life. His neighbor who he meets on the train in be begining is the opposite of his wife, which is odd, because he says that there very alike, though he maybe saying that for conversation sake. She turns out to be part of a secret underground organization of sorts of people that keep books and ends up running off in the end when she's caught. I feel that when Montag meets her in the beginning tho, he starts to question things about his life, starts to pay attention more. Its not till he witnesses a woman set her self on fire with her books that he fully realizes the importance of these things. The government takes them away form us so that we arnt exposed to anything negative, any thing disturbing or anything that they don't want us to be feeling. Books open a world of there own, they can make you angry, they can make you cry (as the guest of his wires did as he was reading a book) and they can make you think and feel in was that you never would have drept with out reading them. In the end, after being discovered/turned in by his wife (brainwashed so badly she would turn her own husband in for him having a few books) he runs to a commune of people who have memorized books, thinking this will in the end enable them to recite them at a later date for them to be written down again. This is proven faulty when the boy in the end, who was memorizing a book form a man on his death bed, recited it wrong after the man had died. This is a prime example of the government taking something away form us that they thing is going to promote free thinking, and turning it into something evil and hated. Weather it be religion,drugs, books, internet or anything else that the government trys to censor or eliminate there will always be people that cannot be fooled and will hold onto the traditions the they know is right, and won't become a mindless drone of the government.