The hope we need is a necessity with all of the struggles we face. Sometimes, we just turn the other cheek and don’t pay attention to what the real goal in life is. We think too much in the future that we need hope to keep our present stable. The book Fahrenheit 451 shows us that. It teaches us to stop looking into the future and live life to its fullest every day, for any day might be the last. Hope helps us survive the world, and saves us from death every moment of our lives.
In Montag’s life, hope shines like the sun in the light blue sky. Montag is in the dim stages of life that the world is in. Montag thinks he’s living his life how it should be. That’s when hope steps in. He is met by Clarisse and Clarisse makes him think about the life that he’s living. Clarisse asks him questions that eventually make him think, does he really want to live his life in the dust? Hope talks to Montag and helps him through his rough times. It makes him open his eyes to the world and accept that the life that he is living is wrong. He goes through a pattern every day. It is as if his life has already been set on what he is going to do and he isn’t the one that set his sights on what he is going to do. He has no control over his own life. Hope then shines through to start a new beginning. He goes through life now with an open mind and an open heart to new ideas, and to new ways of.
Bradbury makes his world seem completely and totally in chaos and is seen right away as an irony. All hell has broken lose in this place that Bradbury conveys as our world. Bradbury makes it as though there is no hope in Montags life. No solution to all of his problems. Bradbury is a contrarian who is someone who goes against the usual. The Greeks would have said Montag would have to die in his cold life but Bradbury turns this story and makes it good at the end. He takes the whole ironic set and turns it around. The need for destruction is something that exists in the world. Sometimes there is a need for destruction. Hope shines at the end of this book. He takes Montag’s life and flips it for the better. Montag is living in a world of completely chaos and Bradbury takes Montag’s life and makes it for the better and start a new beginning.
Hope shines in places that we would never think of. Bradbury puts hope in some places that we would consider unusual. It shines on many places including the scene where the lady decides to burn with her books. Montag realizes that it isn’t just about what we have. We need to expand our imagination. When he has books in his house and Beatty decides to let him keep the books for a couple of days to show Montag how useless they are. But probably the most unusual place is during the bombing of the city. Bradbury utilizes something that is considered dangerous and bad and turns it into something good. He uses the bomb as something good and not evil. He shows the need for destruction. He makes the hope shine in destruction and torture and portrays it as something that is useful and good.
The book also relates to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The story goes that people just look at shadows and flames as they are chained to the wall. One guy breaks away from his chains and goes outside the cave and sees the sun and goes back to tell the others and they kill him saying there is no such thing. This is the way things are and this is the way they will always be. Montag can be seen as the guy who walks out of the cave and tries to shares his thoughts with the world. He ends up being chased and if caught, killed. Montag tries to make people think about if they are living the lives that they really want to be living.
Hope is the reason Montag is still alive in the world that he lives in. His world is a messed up world with treachery and terror. It is a dystopic world with everything that bad that you could possibly think of. This shows when Montag is running away from the government when he kills Beatty. There are people all around but nobody seems to notice Montag weaving in and out of danger. Bradbury tries to implicate that there is always hope in your life. There is always something to work for. Hope is something one thing that keeps you alive from day to day. It shows you that love is there and is the reason why you are still living your life and still fighting to stay alive.
Hope shines in our life whether we realize it or not. We don’t realize when hope is there and when it’s not. It’s all around us and we are just use to it. We don’t realize that hope is in our lives every day everywhere. Anytime we need it, we have it. It is like our right hand man. It saves us from death and evil, and everything in between.
