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What happiness means to me is something you find pleasurable or comfortable with. There are many kinds of happiness i can find in our society. There is physical happiness, where we fell the joy of being fit, strong or healthy. There is also intellectual happiness, where the pleasure come from you understanding something. Either way happiness is happiness, and it could be found in the novel, "Fahrenheit 451" written by Ray Bradbury. One example of happiness is at the beginning of the novel where Guy Montag is burning books, "While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back back by flame"(4.) Already at the beginning of the book, it shows Guy Montag burning book. …show more content…

Another example is when Guy Montag finds out that Clarisse's family enjoys sitting around with all the lights on, "What's going on? Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around"(9.) Later he asked what they do would sitting around, and she answered "they would talk." The fact that the family is sitting around, talking, is another form on happiness. It still counts as happiness, but not what the society would expect. Then again, it is coming from a "weird" family. The last example of a happiness sighting is when Montag sees his wife sitting around and listening to music, "She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away....she was a expert at lip reading from ten years apprenticeship at Seashell ear thimbles(18.) Already in the morning Mildred ,Montag's wife, is already doing she likes to do.Which, apparently, is listening to her music. Also in the passage, it says that she has been listening to her music for ten years. Which means she has been experiencing happiness for a long time. Nevertheless, happiness can be in any shape ans sizes. It can be emotionally or physically, but any form of happiness is

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