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Interpret the main character in your novel using the framework of mindset. Does the character have a fixed or a growth mindset? Explain why.

In Fahrenheit 451 the main character is Guy Montag. At the beginning of the book Guy has a fixed mindset, everything in world shouldn't be questioned and the knowledge you already have is all the knowledge you need. However, throughout the book he comes across a young lady that gets him thinking about whats really out there in the world and Guy ends up questioning his surrounding, his wife, the government, his chief and himself. His mindset goes from doing the same thing every day because that all he and everyone around him knows to wanting to learn, wanting to know more about the world and what it really means to think and to figure things out.


Choose one of the quotes below, interpret it, say whether you agree or disagree and connect it to at least one book you have read.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford

Interpretation: Anyone that stops learning is old, no matter what age. Anyone that keeps learning stays young.

I agree.

I agree with this quote because you can never stop learning, there's always something new to learn in this world and once you decided to stop you're as good as being called old. Too old to learn, too old to put your mind to work and discovering new things. Not only do I agree with this quote but I can relate this quote to Fahrenheit 451 , in this book learning is prohibited and owning a book will have you arrested and your house burnt. Since learning is prohibited the mind is basically going to waste in this dystopia, everyone's mind is wrapped around television, having 3+ televisions in one rooms and everyone is just a walking zombie.