<p>Society turned to violence (kids hitting pedestrian with cars) and suicide (Mildred taking too many sleeping pills) when the government controls the only way the people can get information. Clarisse --and later Montag – are able to escape this orgy of misinformation; Montag survies the atomic blast at the end of the novel because he doesn’t rely on government information any more.</p>
<p>Kind of a stretch but I was drawing blanks and it seemed like a good idea at the time ):</p>