The "system" is something that people are always out to change. You see people trying to change it all the time, but few are actually successful at changing the system. The system can be a variety of things. In some cases it is the government, it can be the a boss or basically anything or anyone that has some type of control or authority. For some people fighting the system is their livelihood, their mission …showed first 75 words of 1550 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1550 total…change a small area of the system, the majority of the time it is well worth the fight. In both of these novels the main characters were successful in changing some aspect of the system. To them the corruption, unfair practices, and indecencies were enough. Something had to be done, and they did it. Bibliography: Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Penguin Group, 1962 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950