Examples Of Going Fast In Fahrenheit 451

At the start of the book, Montag loves fire. He sees it as something that can destroy evil and alter reality. He thinks that “It [is] a pleasure to burn” (1). When he burns the books that people illegally hide in

Throughout the novel, Montag tries to bring realization to the people around him and waits for the day that the civilization experiences a rebirth. This corresponds to the symbol of fire. It mirrors the transformation of Montag's choices from killing his boss to burning his house down. The fire was the solution to set Montag free from the bondage of his culture, and without it, a change would not have ensued (1). Once Montag escapes from the city, he discovers a group of men sitting around a fire. It is in this scene that the fire portrays comfort. The metamorphosis that occurs in Montag is symbolized by the fire due to the fact that he is surrounded by a group of men who share his same beliefs. The comfort Montag feels in the fire is similar to the way God is a constant comfort in a Christian's life. In John 14:16, it says "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever" (NIV). God sets the rules for his people, but He will never leave their side and will always love them unconditionally. A critical altercation becomes obvious when Montag views the fire for the first time in his life as

Fire represents change in the novel because fire allows Montag to undergo a symbolic change in which he stops using fire to burn knowledge but instead help him find it. Guy uses fire to

Montag's house was on fire. He ended up burning all to forget about his past for example his wife whom he never loved and never knew her. “Fire was the best for everything” Montag felt this because Fire was the only way out of everything, his feeling and thoughts. In this this Montag showed that he is “unhappy” with his life because of everything such as Clarisse’s death. Clarisse is a young lady who loves adventures and have new experiences she died on a car crash. She showed Montag the way of life and why it’s important to live every second of

(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

One of the major changes in this new society is depersonalization, the loss of self and intimacy. After an alarm is sent to the firehouse for a home possessing books, Montag travels to the location with the other firemen. He then discovers that this is his own house, and his wife Mildred turned him in to the firemen. Then, Beatty, the head fireman and Montag’s acquaintance, forces him to burn it down himself. After doing so, he stands outside and watches his house burn. He ruminates, “A great earthquake had come with fire and leveled the house and Mildred was under there somewhere and his entire life was under there…” (112). Despite some of these things that are a part of Montag’s life not being the most pleasant, they are still a large part of who he was. As the house is being burnt down, Montag realizes that everything about him is being destroyed with it. Without his house, Montag has nothing familiar left, and registers that his whole life is essentially gone. After killing Beatty as revenge for forcing him to destroy his home, Montag starts his escape. He stops at the house of Faber, an ex-professor he met prior to the events of the story, for help. In shock, Montag voices his wonder about how he ended up in this situation. He

After leaving the calming flow of the river, Montag pinpoints a glow, coming from fire in the distance. When he strolls closer to the light, he observes that the fire is unlike the one he’s used to burn. Montag discovers a new side of the once demeaning fire, “He had never thought in his life that [fire] could give as well as take ” (139). Until now, he has only seen a fierce, destructive side of fire, but now he sees a comforting fire, giving warmth to hands. As fire can have another purpose, this could symbolize Montag finding different purpose in his life. He soon meets the owners of the hands surrounding the fire, and they kindly welcome him to their group, consisting of runaways just like him. Granger says to Montag, “‘You are the Book of Ecclesiastes! See how important you’ve become in the last minute!’” (144). Montag has found a new purpose in his life, to share his knowledge of the Book of Ecclesiastes with other people. This depicts Montag’s mastery of both worlds, as he can distinguish between a destructive and comforting fire, a fire of his known world and the unknown world, and he uses his new intelligence and shares it with other people. Montag has recreated himself, like the Phoenix, by ridding himself of his old life and with the birth of his new

Since the beginning of his firefighter career, Montag has had an inner sense of resistance that only grew after his meetings with Clarisse and other citizens in his society that impacted him. When Montag first met Clarisse, she had readily caused an impact on him. She had asked him a string of questions and told him of occurrences that you would not usually tell. One of her questions had made him realize something about himself rather quickly, “She laughed at this. “Good night!” She started up her walk. Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. “Are you happy?” She said. (7). The question confused Montag at first, reassuring himself that, yes, he was indeed happy. Until he thinks it over and over inside his house, “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as they rue state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” (9). A simple question from Clarisse had Montag realizing a sad truth about himself- he was not happy. Instead of truly feeling the emotion, he wore it as a mask, covering the dissatisfaction he felt with his life, his love and his job by seemingly contentedness, which was not really there. Another impact Clarisse had had on Montag was longingness. Though

Introduction Ray Bradbury, a famous author, said, “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” In Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, a fireman named Montag changes his views on his society. The society he lives in starts the fire and burns books instead of extinguishing the fires and reading the books. Also, reading books is forbidden, and people spend their days watching tv.

Montag is very confused with everything that is happening. Throughout this part, Guy Montag transforms from a person who enjoys burning books and living in the society that he lives in to starting to question the reason why he is doing those things. He does not know if he is happy with his life. In one night, he met a 17 year old girl who questions his ideas and his wife almost overdosed. In the beginning, you can see that he enjoys burning books and being a fireman: "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history" (1). A quote where you can see Guy is confused is shown here: "I don't know anything anymore" (15). Guy feels like he is in a deep abyss of nothing. Before his encounter with Clarisse, the 17 year old girl, Guy thought he was happy and that his wife Mildred was also happy. Clarisse tries to make Guy think about his job, life, and everything in general. This is shown here, where Clarisse asks Guy if it is true that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them: "Is it true that long ago

This caused him to be wanted. The various conflicts he had enabled him to become liberated. Montag's first conflicts was that he couldn't read books freely, he would always be worrying if anyone is watching, where does he hide the books, and the consequences if someone finds out. Of course Montag was also wanted because he killed 3 firemen, including the chief (Beatty). Montag doesn't have to worry about his conflicts anymore because he escaped the city, to live with a group that has similar thoughts as Montag. “The river was mild and leisurely going away from the people that ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapor for supper. This river was very real, it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure to consider this month, this year” (pg 133-134). In this passage Montag talks about the river as himself, as he says the river was going away from the people that ate shadows for breakfast. Additionally this is the point of the story where Montag starts breaking free from

By the very end of the story you see Montags character change and in a very important way. He is no longer a follower but a questioner. He has left the city and his life behind and begins to read books. Montag realizes the problems with firemen and burning books. When Montag stumbles upon a group of other past firemen on his escape, he joins them and is assigned the job of remembering books and memorizing them. In the end of the story Montag realizes how bad the world is and what cruel things firemen are doing to people who are creative or different from everyone else in society. He finally sees his wife no longer as a partner but as a person he lived with that he never connected with or cared about. “Montag turned and glanced back. What did you give to the city, Montag? Ashes. What did the others give to each other? Nothingness.” (169). This is Montag realizing that all he gave to society was burning books and how nobody have each other anything. “ It’s strange, I don’t miss her, It's

Montag loves his job, he loves what he does at his job.In the begining Montag loves his society. He thinks there is nothing wrong with his society. Until he starts to realize how bad it really is. Clarisse starts asking him questions about his life. She asked him “Are you happy”.(Bradbury 6) This make Montag wonder if he really lo0ves his life, and if he loves what is going on with his society. Montag started changing when the women in the burning house says this “we shall this day light such a candle by god’s grace, in england , as I trust shall never be put out”.(33) The women’s quote means that it do4es not matter how many books you burn, you can never take the true meaning off the

The rules and lifestyle of Montag`s society are all he has ever known and being a fireman there are even more restrictions but by the end of the novel Montag freed himself from his controlling, brain-washed and close-minded society. One of the main reasons why Montag changed throughout the novel was because of curiosity. Montag starts questioning everything he has ever known, his job, lifestyle, relationships and everything else in between. He starts

Driving fast in a car may be unsafe but the thrill and excitement of high rates of speed gave me a rush I had never felt before. Seeing, feeling and hearing everything go by faster made the whole driving experience so much better. My mouth watered with envy as I approached the drivers' seat every time I went out for a drive. The automobile, as a whole, became a high interest of mine; the styling, the sound and the speed of it. I loved driving and I loved cars and all of this new found love was from the birth of my drivers' license. Such a simple piece of paper opened up such a broad area of learning for me; it was of much amazement to me.