Mr. Meulmester
Honors English 8
22 March 2013 Changing the System
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. –Dalai Lama In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag lives in a reversed society, where firemen create fires instead of putting them out. The individuals in this society are captivated by gigantic wall sized televisions they address as their “families” and seashell radios that are plugged in their ears to avoid having to listen to people. Montag is merely another one of these clones that prefer not to think, until an unexpected meeting with a rebellious young