Have you ever made a huge mistake that hurt you, and now wish you could take it back? Almost everyone has, but think back to your mistake. There should be a lesson that you learned from it, so it ends up that your mistakes benefit you in the long run. Neitzsche said, "What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger," and, to me, this means mistakes you make that hurt you, but don't kill you, make you stronger by teaching you and strengthening your intellect.
In Fahrenheit 451 Montag makes a huge mistake, but it helps him a lot in the end. In the beginning of the book Montag is just an ordinary fire fighter who goes to work daily to burn buildings and books, but when he meets Clarisse she asks him a couple important questions that were a wake up call to him. One was "Are you happy?" and the other was "Do you ever read the books that you burn?" Montag most definitely was not happy, and I think it really took her questioning that to make him start to realize it more. At first in the book he is the type of person who just goes along with what everyone else tells him to or says, but Clarisse showed him that he doesn't have to do that. After Montag reads a book he realizes that everything he's been doing is wrong, and things need to be changed.
Montag's mistake in going along with everyone else really helped him fight hard in the end, because it taught him not to make the same mistake again leaving him unhappy. This concept can apply to many situations, big or small, and it really is true if you think about the lessons that you have learned from mistakes you've made. All of the lessons build up to make you intellectually stronger.
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