Read the quotations below from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Match each one with the
theme or lesson it suggests.
If everyone is the same, then no
one will be jealous.
Through others we learn about
ourselves.
Discomfort can show that you care
about something meaningful.
People are more easily controlled
when they have fewer choices.
Quotation
How like a mirror, her face.... How
rarely did other people's faces take
of you and throw back to you your
own expression, your own innermost
trembling thought?
"We need to be really bothered once
in a while. How long is it since you
were really bothered? About
something important, about
something real?"
"If you don't want a man unhappy
politically, don't give him two sides
to a question to worry him; give him
one. Better yet, give him none."
"Each man the image of every other;
then all are happy, for there are no
mountains to make them shrink
away, to judge themselves against."
1951 Ray Bradbury
Theme