Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
This novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is certainly a masterpiece. It has so many quotations and passages that has strong impact on the way you think. The passage that is significant to me is "We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind," which is Captain Beatty's quote. The line "a book is a loaded gun in the house next door" is my favorite part in this passage.
It sounds so serious, and ironic because the society I live in right now has made me think that book is the most safest thing, when Montag's society is the opposite; they're thinking that book is a dangerous thing that breaks up the faith and friendship among the people.
What I like about this novel and this passage is that it makes you think. Even though we believe our side of the world is correct, maybe we, as in the people, are the ones who are brain washed to believe that books are great things when they are actually not.
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