Fahrenheit 451 Group Analysis
By Luis Ramirez and Timothy Leonez
Timed Style Thesis
5 Quotes
Quotes:
1. “Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces, They beat me with sticks. By the time i was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.”(104)
2. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” (104)
3. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”(106)
4. “The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in the church a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what that religion was.”(95)
Current day event/cultural norm/phenomenom
Real Life Application of Knowledge versus Ignorance
In the late 1700s, a large percentage of Europeans feared the tomato. A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating them, but the truth of the matter was that wealthy Europeans used pewter plates, which were high in lead content. Because tomatoes are so high in acidity, when placed on this particular tableware, the fruit would leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning. No one made this connection between plate and poison at the time; the tomato was picked as the culprit.
The reason the tomato was so feared and not grown to be eaten was due to people's ignorance of the fruit if they had learned like the native Aztecs of MesoAmerica they would have grown the crop.