The second and third parts of Fahrenheit 451 remind me of the movie I Am Legend. In the movie, the main character is one of the only human survivors of a mass pandemic caused by a drug that was thought to be a cancer cure. The drug turned everyone it didn't kill into strange human-like life forms, but there were few similarities between the life forms and normal humans. The main character is one of only a few survivors of the pandemic, and he does all he can to cure the other weird human-like people of the disease. Like in the movie, Montag is one of only a few people who still retain human qualities. Montag has a desire to read and to learn from what he reads, and he attempts to convert the others from their book-free, government-controlled lives by reading a poem titled Dover Beach; the poem relates perfectly to the novel: "..also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea" could relate to Montag's desire to read being crushed by society, "..But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" parallels to Montag's feelings about the forced monotony that is his life, and "Ah, love, let us be true" could possibly have been a plea from Montag to Mildred for a change in their loveless life.
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