Meaningless

If a young boy always agrees with everyone so he never has to stand up for himself and goes through life unnoticed with no friends, he will grow old staying the same way and never learn what love really means. Putting on a smile as fake as the matching look in his eyes, masking the fear and emptiness that he feels does nothing . Because he goes through life untouched, also not touching anyone else around him; there is no point in his existence. This boy is unaffected by, literature, a great gift of life, and no others are affected by the gift either. At first Montag goes through life without changing anything in the world from the way it was before, and when you do that there is no point in existence, for life then, is meaningless.



"Are you happy?" Clarisse asks Montag. Maybe it's a question that more people should find themselves asking. It served as a wake up call for Montag, and really made him think about his life and if he was happy. He in fact, was not happy. Knowing this, he looked at his life and found things that made him unhappy, forcing himself to make new opinions and have new thoughts about things in his life he never would have thought twice about before. One of the many things he was unhappy about was his wife. The person he was supposed to love, and the person that he thought he loved, he didn't love. Their love was fake. As fake as his smile, as fake as the look in his eyes.


Realizing the faults in your life, is an important thing, because consciously knowing they're there, can help you turn them around. A couple of the two most important things in a persons life are their job and their family. Montag was unhappy with both. His close family was only his wife, and after thinking about it, he didn't and never did, love her like he thought he did. Relationships shared between a husband and wife should be full of love and communication . Their relationship had neither, and when Montag tries to fix that his wife does nothing except complain. Mildred, his wife, agrees with his job as a firefighter just wanting to keep their somewhat stable lives, but he on the other hand disagreed with the whole meaning of his job, and had gotten into it because of his father, just going along with what people told him to do. Now he began to act out on this and was diligent to fix the mistakes they were making, which ended up getting much better in the end.


Montag made many mistakes in his life, and couldn't take them all back. The reason of these mistakes is because he did what he was told and said what he thought people wanted him to say always agreeing with people. Sometimes disagreement is a good thing, because opinions are what make the world work. Going along with everything people tell you to makes you unhappy when you disagree with the things they tell you, and that is why it is important to stand up for your beliefs or your life will end up being meaningless.