I wonder what I would've said had I also been made to read this book in high school. My 17 year old self was very vocal about 1984, and its parallels to reality — my teacher hated that.

Funny, Fabre answers Montag's question about books helping by saying: "... Number one, as i said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."