Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "To be in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag always went along with everything. Until one question changed everything. Montag was different while everyone around him is trying to make him different. Individuality is necessary to make an important impact.

            When your individual you don’t have to depend on anyone. In the book Montag leaves his job as a fireman and those firemen were the people he depended on. but after he left them he no longer depended on them or anyone else. That was a good thing for Montag because the firemen held him back from doing a lot of things. In the book Montag says “ And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself “I’m not happy I'm not happy” This example shows how Montag was not happy when he was still a firemen because he wasn't individual. Also there was another example in the book were Montag says “But when he died I realized I wasn’t crying for him but for all the things he did” this means that when Montag saw one of his best men Beatty die he didn't feel sorry for him because Beatty held him back from being his own person and making his own decisions but he was crying for all the books Beatty burned and all the people he killed. When Beatty came to Montag’s house and lectured he said “ At least once in his career every fireman gets an itch what do books say? he wonders!! This meant that Beatty sort of new that Montag and his wife were reading and Beatty doesn't want them to read not only because it’s illegal but also because that would make them different and more individual than others........ It would make them WONDER.

     You succeed in life when your individual. Montag was risking himself to read more and more but that was also good because then he starts to become more independent than others and he started doing everything he wanted on his own. Some quotes from the book that show that Montag is successful when he is independent are when Clarisse asks him “Are you happy” because that where he starts thinking and realizes that he is not happy that everything in his life is wrong. I’ll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it, it’s only the beginning. When Montag says this quote he is meaning that his life used to mean nothing but after reading a couple of books that changed everything, he realized that there is more to the world that just that, that he shouldn't give up now after all he’s been through and that makes him successful because he is moving forward no matter what. Also after quitting his job as a fireman his wife Mildred did not support him instead she tries to persuade him to go back but he says “ I’m never going back to being a fireman, never again. When Montag says that he means that he was not successful when he was fireman, he was not individual.

     A group with common beliefs can have an important impact on society. Firemen would be considered a group of common beliefs because they all agree that books should be burned and anyone who reads them. Montag says in the book Fahrenheit 451 “We need not to be alone we need to bothered every once in a while”. He says this when him and his wife are sitting on the floor with books all around them. Montag says that they need to be bothered because they're both having a hard time with the hound and Beatty. At the beginning of the book Montag says “It was a pleasure to burn” at this point Montag’s life was perfectly fine from a person’s who lived in his time. He was happy with his job and with his life. Beatty e explain s and says to Montag that ‘“We all must be alike” Beatty said that meaning everyone is happy when they're alike and no one rises over the other. He meant that in school the smart kids couldn't shine because they're smart.

     After reading the book Fahrenheit 451 I realized that Montag was really conformist at first because he didn’t know any better. He followed along everything in his life because he didn’t know there was a different side to everything. But at the end of the book even though Montag became in a group yet he is very individual because he found out the hard way that it’s okay to think differently and to differently every once in a while. Individuality is necessary because to make an important impact because when your individual you don’t have to depend on anyone, you succeed in life when your individual.