Knowledge-Ignorance

|| Montag who knew nothing, who did not even know himself a fool, but only suspected it."
 * Knowledge**/**Ignorance**: Montag’s encounters with specific people in the novel impact the level of his knowledge. Find passages/quotes that show how he is impacted, what knowledge he gains…
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 * "Now he knew that he was two people, that he was, above all,

The scales represent the two sides to Montag. In the beginning, the ignorant side of himself was heavier than the knowledgable side, but as the story goes on, what he learns tips the scale. || might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burntcorked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered."
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 * 1."He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he

This is an important quote because it shows how ignorant Montag is in the very beginning of Fahrenheit 451. He smiles at the fire because at this point he does not know any better than to think the fire is a good thing. || [] || House last night, and I suddenly realized I didn't like them at all, and I didn't like myself at all any more. And i thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt."
 * 2."But I kept putting her alongside the firemen in the

(He is referring to the women who was burned along with her books. That is why he is so angry, because her death got to him, but the others were not effected at all by it.)

This quote is important as well because it marks a turning point in Montag's life. He has now gained enough knowledge to realize that what he does for a living is wrong and that he wants to change himself. He never wants to come in contact with fire again. ||  || thought in his life that it could give as well as take."
 * 3. "He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never

This quote is important because it shows the final stage in Montag's transformation as a person. He has now gone from smiling at the fire for its destruction, to understanding how it can be used to do good. ||  || Montag grows as a person throughout Fahrenheit 451. || Racial prejudice affects people all over the world. The cause is believed to be ignorance. All humans belong to the same species, but people of different races are judged based on superficial characteristics. People judge others because they are too ignorant to get to know the person so they judge them on what they look like. This prejudice goes back a very long way. To try and stop it, the government has made laws to get people to treat eachother equally, but this has not been very effective. Society still suffers from racial prejudice. ||
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 * Bradbury uses knowledge and ignorance to show how
 * Bradbury uses knowledge and ignorance to show how