Similar themes

One of the themes that our class looked at for Farenheit 451 was that you need to engage with difficult situations to achieve happiness and Montage had to do this and Jo in my book, Out of the Easy has to go through akward situations to achieve happiness. Jo has to consider leaving her home, hide a stolen, dead man'a watch and blackmail an influential, high class citizen all to fulfill her dream of getting out of her crappy life in the quarter and go to learn at a good college. All of Montag's issues amount to his goal to learn and gain knowledge so I'm many ways the books are very similar