The Necessary Pain of Life

Running up and down the field as a midfielder, all you can hear is the huffing and puffing of your own breathing, and then the seemingly loud noise of your teammate's - or opponent's - foot making full contact with the ball. For this game, we have no substitutes to come in for me, so I am just going to have to tough it out and keep pushing one hundred percent until the referee blows the annoying whistle for the last time. As the coach says, 'Pain is temporary; but pride is forever'. Pain is such a big part of our lives - all it could possibly do is make us stronger day by day by living through the bad and when it's all over, gratefully receiving the good. This is exactly what is explained in the last section that our class has just read in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

If there were any way possible to get more inner strength than you already have, what would you do? Just shy away from everything and be totally oblivious to the world, or live through the pain? At times pain can hurt, but just like Montag did in the novel, we need to realize that pain is relevant in life, and when it comes, it can only help us improve ourselves as people. Montag desperately needed to get to Faber's household after he had destroyed his own home, but one of his legs was no longer there, but he went the extra mile by hopping on one leg to help out a numerous amount of characters in the novel. "What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger."

Said by Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous quote "What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger" can be used in an abundant amount of situations in this novel. In the most recent part, Montag has a diverse amount of books held in his residence, and Captain Beatty has just found out about this huge collection. Beatty, being the person that he is, is not very happy about this, so the day where Montag arrives at work Beatty drives the truck to Montag's house, starts the flame thrower, and then makes Montag burn down his own house. Montag has his newly-found courage and inner strength from living through all of the pain that he has dealt with thus far, and he squirts the liquid fire onto Beatty, so he is now dead, and then the Hound come over and stabs his procaine needle right into Montag's leg and he slowly drifts into a numbness, and eventually is unconcscious. When he regains his consciousness, he notices that his leg is completely gone, except for the little stub attached to his hip. This is just a little part of showing his confidence in himself.

But when Montag sees the Salamander gone when he wakes up, he is all alone in front of his house with no help, no one to talk to, and no way to get to Faber's house to tell him what had just happened. Portraying the hero that he is in this novel, he willingly hops on one leg to his friend's house. Because of the little green object that was in Montag's ear that connected him to Faber that Beatty had seen, something needs to be done with it, and Montag needs to let Faber know about it because after all, he is the inventor. One sign of true strength is toughing everything out and fulfilling your goal of accomplishing what you needed to get accomplished; that is exactly what Montag did.

Pain in life is a true necessity to getting through all of the moments where you really do need your strength to secure your chance of being a true person. Every person has pain, it just comes and goes, but also it is always there for reference. If you have pain, just don't worry about it; live your life to the fullest and don't hold back, you will eventually get through it and everything will be okay. That is exactly what is happening in the novel.