Writing Resources
Imagine not being able to be yourself read books or make decisions on your own this was normalized for Montag and Tally until they met the people that would change their perspective on everything In Uglies all sixteen year old children are required to have cosmetic surgery that will make them pretty Tally Youngblood can t wait to become pretty but then she meets Shay who wants to remain ugly her perception changes You can relate this to Fahrenheit 451 due to Montag not knowing any better and destroying books Not until Montag meets Clarisse does he start to realize that there s more to life than screens Westerfield and Bradbury show in these novels that you can t realize how ignorant you are until someone makes you question yourself and wonder if you are good enough Montag and Tally both let the government influence themselves on what they should be Montag let the government control his mind by not being able to read books and obtain knowledge 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 by flame Bradbury 1 Montag as a firefighter and burning books brings him joy but not the joy that we feel just less empty than he usually does
