The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a large nameless city. It is believed to take place in 2053. The mood is dark and scary. The author shows you that it isn’t going to be a book with a very happy mood by starting it with Montag coming home from the fire station and meeting Clarisse. Montag seems to be a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. In the beginning he is kind of stuck up. The readers soon find out that he is very unhappy. He is one of the firemen in the novel, firemen are men who go into to people's houses and burn books. Montag owns books of his own and is terrified of getting caught. Reading is illegal in the city that he lives in, but he wants to change that. Montag wants to learn and he wants someone to …show more content…
He used to be an English professor, before books were banned. He is very helpful to Montag throughout the book. Faber is angry, unsatisfied with himself for not standing up for his belief. Faber asks Montag, “‘How did you get shaken up?”’(78). He asks this question one night when Montag shows up at his house angry because he doesn’t know how to remember what he is reading. Faber seems to be Montag's support system. Later on in the book, he is the one who helps Montag escape from the city. In one scene, Montag is on the subway trying to read and remember what he is reading from the Bible. While is is trying to do this, an ad is playing on the subway and it seems as if the ad is getting louder and louder as it goes. The scene is important because it shows Montag's dedication to what he is trying to do. Also, he is on his way to Faber's house in this part of the novel. This is important because it shows you how they come together and start planning things out. Montag is trying to remember because he has to give his book to Beatty, the fire marshall, and he has the last Bible known to …show more content…
Faber tells him where to go and how to get there. He then gives Montag a suitcase full of his stuff to throw off the hounds sent. Montag gets away, but the city leaders make the citizens think otherwise. And an innocent man loses his life.
The main theme throughout this novel is, society and survival. The society has a law against reading books and Montag knows of this law before he ever starts taking books for himself. “‘That's against the law!”’(5). Later on is the novel Montag is given a flame thrower and forced to burn his own home. This makes him very angry and things get out of hand. “‘Why,”’ Montag said slowly, “‘we’ve stopped at my house”’(106). To survive, Montag has to get away from the city. He takes the river to escape the hound and the search crew.
It was good that Montag went to Faber to gets some help instead of doing things on his own. I hate that Clarisse was killed for knowing too much, asking questions, and making Montag think. I have learned that books are very important in everyday life. The history of our world is kept in books. Books help you imagination grow and help you form opinions based on your own thoughts. Faber says that, “‘Books themselves are not the key to happiness.”’(79). But, “‘Leisure, quality, and the right to carry out actions based on what you are reading”’(80). Is crucial to
Montag's desire to acquire knowledge through books is dealt with by the rulers is that Montag’s boss, Beatty, says it was normal for a fireman to go through these phases of fascination of what books have to offer. Beatty tells Montag,” What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.” But, Beatty is missing the point on how valuable books can be. So Beatty tells Montag to read through all of the books Montag has stashed to see if the books contain anything worthwhile, then the next day turn them in to be burned.
This is an important part of the book because this realization could cause Guy change the way he acts. He could also end up trying to take steps to regain his happiness that he lost. By trying to fill that hole in his heart that once contained happiness, Montag could end up doing something very drastic or unexpected.
The professor showed Montag that books have details, significance, and are valuable. Through Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman and Faber, he realizes that the time he had spent burning books was wrong. This persuaded him to change his life.
The consequence of this behavior could send Montag to prison, which Montag does not care about. After reading several books Montag talks with his close friend, Faber, and says to him "We have everything to be happy, but we're not happy" .What Montag tells Faber at that moment is really an expression of how he started analyzing more after starting reading books. Although Montag's love life changes and his view of society are changed too, this is not the only change Montag must admit. In the start of the book Montag is delighted in the work of burning illegal books and the homes of where they are found. However, as the book progresses, Montag becomes increasingly disgruntled, as he realizes that he has an empty, unfulfilling life. A point that shows that Montag in the start of the book is happy about his job is when he hangs up his helmet and shines it; hangs up his jacket neatly; showers luxuriously, and then, whistling walks across the upper floor.
Faber changed Montag from being a confused man, to an aware, thinking and analyzing person that is deferent from the society he lives in. after killing Beatty, the chief fireman at the station who has read many books and memorized most of them. Montag seeks Faber 's help again, he was confused did not know where to do to escape from the mechanical hound that was running after him. Faber tells Montag to go to the forest, where Montag rested and thought about what happened and whether he did the right thing or not. At the forest, Montag meets a group of men that was lead by Granger; an author who is the leader of a group that hopes to re-populate the world with books.
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.
As Montag is becoming more and more rebellious, he finds a confidant in Faber. Faber was once a college professor but lost his job when things started to change and books were burned. Though he is somewhat of a coward who does not want to rebel due to the fact that he does not want to face the consequences, he is a big help to Montag as he evolves. Montag is forced to burn his own house down and it seems as if all is coming to an end. At
Montag and the people of the woods are connected. The people of the woods have the power to recall word for word any books they have read and all of them have a different story. The people of the woods are waiting for the rest of the world to be ready to have books introduced again and until then they sit outside of the city. In a way these people are living books. These people are able to recite parts from certain parts of books that are in their head. The actions of these people connect with what Faber says about books because he knows that people aren’t ready for books to be introduced back into people's lives. This is shown because these people are in hiding and these people wait outside the city for a day when books are accepted again.
Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who Montag met while walking down the street one night. She claims she is crazy and always seeks out the answers to questions that nobody else thinks to ask. Faber is an ex-professor who is old enough to have watched the decline of intellectual life in his country. Montag once met Faber in the park carrying a book of poetry on his person and quoting it. Guy never turns Faber in to the authorities for possession of a forbidden book, but keeps Faber’s personal information in the case that he decides to do so. These two people alter Montag’s perspective on the world and the stories concealed in it by the media and government. Montag is so influenced that, by the ending of the story, Montag transforms into a completely different person who, desiring more out of his life, discovers that he can save his burning society by bringing back books and poetry. Montag changes throughout the course of the story by beginning to question authority and doubt the ways of his life and society. He is transformed from the beginning to the ending, through the influence of the people in his life.
Subsequently, Faber monumentally influenced Montag and his decisions he made throughout the novel. Faber was a retired English professor and he is the second mentor that Montag comes across. He was one of the few people who is not like everyone else because he, just as Clarisse, are intellectual beings. Faber met Montag in a park. A short discussion revolving around small-talk like the weather quickly escalates to a deeper topic and Montag and faber soon find themselves discussing Faber’s past and the history of books. They talk for hours and their conversation ultimately ends with Faber leaving Montag his contact card and Guy soon contacts him when he discovers his love for books. In Faber and Montag’s conversation, Faber says, “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality.” (83). The significance of Faber
He finds an ex-professor named Faber, whom he met in the park one day. Faber is reluctant, but finally agrees to aid Montag against the firemen. Faber provides Montag with a two-way radio earpiece. That evening Montag loses his temper and breaks out by reading some banned poetry aloud to his wife’s friends. Which wasn’t such a bright decision. That night at the firehouse, Beatty pokes at Montag by quoting contradictory passages from the same books. Which he’s trying to prove that all literature is confusing and problematic. Then he takes Guy to a fire alarm. Which is very astonishing because it’s at Guy’s
Faber, a retired english professor, that Montag had met a year before at a park, begins mentoring him to fix the complications with the society because of Faber's fears of rebelling himself. Faber also understood how awful the world had become to get to the point of hiding people from having a normal sustainable life. Faber introduces Montag access to books, so that he can start to gain knowledge himself. He starts to learn from Faber’s false moves and understand the importance of having books and reading. “Faber held his hand over his left coat pocket and spoke these words gently, and Montag knew if he reached out, he might pull a book of poetry from the man’s coat. But he did not reach out. His hands stayed on his knees, numbed
He is serves Montag as a father or mentor-like influence. When Montag realizes the harm that burning books causes, he has nowhere to turn in his life for help. However, he remembered an encounter with Faber from a while back and seeked comfort in him. Faber was in support of keeping and preserving the books. Faber gives Montag very important advice like, “You’re afraid of making mistakes.
Once he gets to Faber’s house, the danger increases to include his friend Faber. Even thought, his scent will lead the danger they tried to cover Montag’s scent with Faber’s own, and with alcohol. After that, Montag flees the city knowing that also his friend, Faber, is in the same trouble.
1. Montag couldn 't get his wife to help him read so, he got Faber help.