The universal theme that this book addresses is the struggle between right and wrong. Guy struggles with this when he asks himself is it right to stay with society and keep burning books or is it wrong to burn the books and stay with society. That question always pops up in Guys mind whether to stay or not. He is deciding whether to stay with the life he has now which is he burns books all day and has a wife that does not listen to him and just watches television. He could take the other route and try to make his life a little more interesting. He could get better at reading and writing and learn more about books. Throughout the book Guy struggles with that question, but in the end he finally makes an answer. Bradbury understands a lot about human nature. Their are a lot of people in this world that would take the road that everybody else is taking. That is what this book is about, it is about how people do what the society tells them to do. Nobody ever stands up to the government and says no, they all sit back and take the road that has been traveled on many times. Bradbury believes that people need to take the "road less traveled." They need to go in their own direction instead of going with the flow and following everybody else. Guy portrays a great portion of that because he used to follow everybody, but now that he realizes that their is more to life than burning books and so he takes the "road less traveled."
When Guy Montag says, "We never burned right..." (Bradbury 119). Guy Montag says that the firefighters were never supposed to burn stuff they were supposed to let stuff not burn. This is a big step for Montag because nobody ever talks to their superior that way. It shows how Montag wants to do the right thing and take a different route than everybody else.
Bibliography
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.
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