John F. Kennedy once said, " Conformity is jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." This quote relates directly to the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. According to this statement, when a person is told how to live their own lives they often forget to make their own decisions, and they are no longer their own person. Conformity is following all commands and laws regardless of one's own beliefs. In the story, Guy Montag followed …
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…did an admirable job expressing the changes that Montag experienced. He used many different literary techniques to show the growth that Mr. Guy Montag went through in the novel. This story was a perfect example of what may happen when a human is told what to do, instead of having the option of doing what they truly believe they should. According to John F. Kennedy, " Conformity is jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."