An Analysis Of Montag's Diary From 'Fahrenheit 451'

Throughout the book, Montag notices that the Hound does not like him. The Hound is also frequently a part of his thoughts. Whenever he goes to the station he is kind of frightened of the Hound, and makes sure he knows where it is.

Page 104, “Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside.”

of Beatty. Montag then runs away and tries to hide. A hound is sent after Montag to kill

While walking, Montag and Mildred discuss why she turned him over to the firefighters. Mildred says “I’m sorry that I turned you in to Beatty.” Montag responds, “It’s over now, Milly, but why?” Mildred says “I was afraid that the hound would come into the house and kill us both, and when the ladies reported you I thought I should as well so that I didn’t look guilty.” “I understand.” As they walk towards a dilapidated building they heard a voice yell “Freeze!” As the group turned around they realized that they had been set up by the

Within a society where individual thought is shamed and frowned upon, Guy Montag is easily seen as an outcast. Due to the fear of being outcasted alongside Guy or perhaps it is the fear of falling to the same fate of Clarisse, he is avoided and even disliked by his own wife. He begins to feel detached once his daily repetitive routine becomes challenged by Clarisse who asks simple questions such as, “Are you happy?” (Bradbury, 4) This creates a level of paranoia that someone will discover this new mindset of Guy’s and the heresy that will follow.

In the book, there is a man named Fabre, who is a book lover and a wise man. Montag befriends him, and Fabre gives him a little earpiece so the two can communicate. In the movie, there is no mention of any character called Fabre, and Montag wears no earpiece throughout the film. In addition, Fabre was also the one to tell Montag about the book people, and the one to tell him to go to the train station and trek down to the river. Also, Montag kills Captain Beatty after meeting Fabre, which obviously does not happen in the movie, because there is no Fabre to

People always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. This is the case as well in Fahrenheit 451, the novel, written by Ray Bradbury, is the story that follows a normal man, Guy Montag, who lived a normal life in his civilization post apocalptic as a fireman. Although where he is from, it is not a fireman’s duty to put out fires, but rather to burn books. It is because of his profession he battled his conscience to find answers to his many questions. Throughout this book, Montag changed his perceptive on literature in his society for the better because he became a critical thinker and stopped being passive like everyone else where

1. Montag gives the books to beatty, while beatty tells him qoutes from the books to confuse him.

Finally arriving at Faber's house, Montag is told about a group of exiled intellectuals who will give him refuge. Through careful planning and determination, he manages to stay ahead of the new and improved Mechanical Hound, who is trying to hunt him down and destroy him. By jumping into the river and floating downstream, Montag cannot be detected by either the Hound or the helicopters. He finally comes ashore by a forest and finds the exiles within. They welcome Montag into their midst and share their plans of saving books and knowledge with him. Montag is given the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes to memorize.

Montag burns his home and his possessions. Montag does not get angry over burning down all his possessions because most of the stuff he burned down ruined his life, it was a joy to him to see those things destroyed. Beatty continuously keeps on angering Montag to the point where he burns down Beatty. After killing Beatty, Montag realizes Beatty wanted to die and that he was unhappy. He made no attempt to stop Montag from burning him down. Beatty's death is surely caused by his own actions. As Montag tries to flee he gets bit by the Mechanical Hound. But i think in Montag's point of view, he has been punished for burning homes and books. The book's climax is when Montag's house is destroyed, when his marriage ends,and when he kills

They all turned in unison and dashed, the hound giving chase. The sounds of their footsteps were the only sounds they could hear, possibly the only sound in many miles in any direction. The hound was silent, and this provided a false sense of safety. Granger slowed and turned, the hound pounced on his leg, the needle protracting. Montag had a look of horror as he ran back to his friend, no sooner than they had all set off, and kicked the creature with his heavy boots. The same boots he had worn as a fireman, he hadn’t even noticed. The hound was destroyed, but as for Granger, Montag wasn’t sure.

(Watt 41). Bradbury reinforces this contrast by causing Mildred to relate only to the subject of herself, while Clarisse's favorite subject is other people. When Montag meets the Mechanical Hound, he discovers that it is a "dead beast, [a] living beast" (Bradbury 24). Donald Watt describes it as a "striking and sinister gadget" and it "is most terrifying for being both alive and not alive" (41; Huntington 113). The Hound becomes "Montag's particular mechanical enemy…[and it] becomes more suspicious of him" as time passes and Montag develops a greater freedom from his society (Johnson 112). Thus, Montag is thrust into the realization that his culture is not flawless, but instead is rife with abuses of human freedoms.

(STEWE-1) Montag comes to a conclusion that what he does and his own job are wrong,”Montag only said, We never burned right, and then he was a shrieking blaze”(113). This symbolizes that Montag knows they never used fire the right way, they used it to burn when it should be used for something else. Causing Montag to react by killing Beatty. (STEWE-2) While Montag is trying to escape his society. “Watch for a man running… watch for the running man… watch for a man alone on foot, … watch. Yes, he thought where am I running”(118). While running away Montag commits a crime towards the society by putting a book in a fireman’s house and calling in the alarm, just like him and Faber had set up. “And now since you’re a fireman’s wife, it’s your house and your turn, He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley”(123). Montag has started to commit crimes against the state and run away. (SIP-B) Montag fully rebels against his society and escapes it. (STEWE-1) Furthermore while on the run Montag drops in on Faber to explain to him what is going on, Faber suggests to Montag to go to the river. “One of the rare few times he discovered that somewhere behind behind the seven veils of unreality, beyond the walls of parlors and beyond the tin most of the city”(135). Montag now realizes there is more to everything beyond the robotic

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

Beatty uses his knowledge to attack Montag after the fireman has made the decision to join the radicals and to oppose the burning of books. Montag returns to the fire station in order to surrender a book, creating the illusion of conforming to Beatty’s expectations. Before Montag has an opportunity to speak Beatty begins to confound him with contradictory statements from