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The ignorance of time also is a great similarity that the world today shares with the world in the novel. People had and still have this need to be busy all the time due to the fear of being bored. The daily routine of Montag consisted of sleeping and working. This boring routine consumed Montag's whole day everyday of the year. Mildred lounges around all day associating with the "family", watching soaps, and buying items off of a shopping network. Routine consumes the world today also. People do not like revising schedules/plans. Adolescents go to sleep, then school, then work, and repeat it all over again. One hour can alter the whole routine setting everything off. For adults it's sleep and work. In both universes these routines turn life-filled, fun-loving humans, into programmed, brainless machines that do what they are told when they are told. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag and Mildred are so mindless and programmed that neither of them can recall where they met. The little details in life are neither noticed nor cared about in either society. .
In the novel it was the outcast, Clarrise McClellan, who introduced the world to Montag. She made him see all the little details in life, hence the reason she was an outcast. Clarrise dared to be different, which was unacceptable to the world. This seventeen-year-old girl was the spark that lit the flame. She was the start of the change, yet she is not acknowledged. In our society people like Clarisse are often cast away as oddballs regardless of the positive effects they can have on society. The basis of Christianity is based on an outcast. Jesus Christ was an outcast that managed to spark a revolution of change. He dared to be different regardless of the stigma society cast on him. Both Jesus Christ and Clarrise were people who could see the great deeds the little things could accomplish. .
Officer Beatty tries to explain to Montag how pointless trying to understand the universe is.
