Fahrenheit 451 Happy Quotes

The fear of the truth and admitting the truth is boldly seen in Fahrenheit 451, and then when it is revealed to the person, it results in brokenness and sorrow. Beatty is a prime example of avoiding the truth. Throughout the book, he hints at knowing the truth, but covers it up by burning books and peoples' opinions, and then building technology full of junk. Because of this, Beatty is left broken and sad, and eventually, he pays for it. When Montag was burning his house along with the books, he pointed the flame thrower at Beatty and stood there. He turned it on and flames ate Beatty up, then he thought to himself afterwards that "Beatty wanted to die. In the middle of crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let him pause for air" (116).

Society can change a person in a negatively or positively. Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag, in the novel Fahrenhelt 451, by Ray Bradbury. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.

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

Montag is someone who is shy and keeps his thoughts to himself, but thinks many things. He shows that he is distracted instead of being happy throughout the book. At the time, he was walking home from work and was looking at Clarisse. Clarisse is a girl who would roam the streets and was also Montag's neighbor. She walks over to Guy and they start to have a conversation while walking to their houses. They discussing if talking about to see if Montag is really happy or if he was lying. She keeps questioning him. Bradbury explains “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as true state affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run across the lawn with the mask and the way

In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray. Bradbury, books are the root of all the problems that occur. In this quote Montag is expressing to Mildred on why there’s a need for books, and the quote also explains the warfare that will continuously happen all through the story, “‘Is it true, the world works hard and we play, is that why we’re hated so much?’” (70) Throughout the story Montag becomes more and more aware of the world around him.

Montag begins to think about what Clarisse said to him “Are you happy?” (pg 10). When he returns home, he realizes that he is not happy with his

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a fireman named Guy Montag who has been burning books for ten years. However, once he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse and a professor who tells him about the value of books, he realizes that he would rather give up his job than burn books. Unfortunately, there are many individuals in Montag’s society who have differing mentalities about books. The individuals in Montag’s society are distracted by outside forces that prevent them from forming and maintaining a stable community.

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

“If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.”, this famous quote was wrote by the unknown, however the quote resembles a story written by Ray Bradbury, the story is Fahrenheit 451. “The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze.” , this statement can be found on the front cover of the story Fahrenheit 451. Firefighters should never be the ones to start a fire they should extinguish it, because it destroys homes and families.

Montag is living an average, happy life, going to work and coming home to his wife, but when he meets Clarisse, he had his eyes opened up about his society. Near the beginning of the story, Montag has enjoyment while doing his job, “While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame” (2). Inside these quotes, it represents how happy Guy Montag is. Nothing is bothering him and he is enjoying going to work every day and burning books. Although, when Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse, she gives Guy a different perspective on his happiness as he questions himself, “Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?” (8) Accordingly, Clarisse has given Montag a new perspective and now he is curious and wants to research deeper in the dystopia and his

There's dew on the grass in the morning. He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. And if you look she nodded at the sky there's a man in the moon. He hadn't looked for a long time.” This quote from Fahrenheit 451 portrays how Guy had completely forgotten about nature. When it says, “He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not” it shows how he was caught up with what the rest of the society believed in. When Montag becomes irritable it shows that he is annoyed by the realization that he is following the sickness of his society. It also shows how Guy starts to change from the beginning of the book to the end. Quotes to support this are “He hadn’t looked for a long time.” Sometimes Clarisse describes to Guy what it is like to not go along with society. An example of this is when it states, "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like

In part one of the story we learn about Clarisse McClellanshe who is his new neighbor. One day the Guy Montag meets her and they talk while walking, she starts to talk to Montag about happiness and makes him start questioning his own happiness. This impacts

(MIP-3) When Montag does find the truth that the relationships in his society are void of genuinity or of value, he rebels against society completely to find himself truly happy with the genuine relationships he makes with Granger’s group once he leaves society. (SIP-A) When Montag finds the truth about everyone’s relationships in society, he completely rebels and breaks free from society. (STEWE-1) A crucial point where Montag starts to completely rebel against society is when he hears Mildred’s friends are talking about their husbands and children at his house. Regarding those relationships, one friend says, "’Anyway, Pete and I always said, no tears, nothing like that. It's our third marriage.’” (Bradbury 91) and another says, “‘I plunk

In a cruel society where pure knowledge is banned, what do we turn to when our lives are/world is in shambles? What is our saving grace, if not intelligence and awareness? In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian world just like this, where books are outlawed and any sighting of one will result in a mob of ‘firefighters’ arriving at the scene immediately, ready to burn them. In the novel, Bradbury addresses the subject of ignorance and knowledge, suggesting that life is more enjoyable and satisfying when knowledge is welcomed. Bradbury demonstrates this message through his excellent selection in words and carefully chosen symbols.

In the beginning, Montag is one with the culture: drab and superficial. He thinks little about his job – which is to respond to emergencies of books being found in homes – and does not give much thought as to what he is doing when he sets houses ablaze. Many factors play a role in changing Guy. Clarisse McClellan opens his eyes to the beauty of written works and taking time to think: “(Clarisse) I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. (Montag) You’re peculiar, you’re aggravating, yet you’re easy to forgive” (Bradbury 21). Montag believes that Clarisse should be seeing a psychiatrist because she is abnormal and does strange things such as spend her free time thinking and tilting her head back to taste the rain. Another event that makes Montag do a double-take is when he responds to a call about a woman’s house that has many books within. She sets fire to her own house and dies in doing so. Montag thinks there must be a reason worth dying for that she had to do such a thing. Is their society not perfect after all? Is there something in those books that is truly life changing? A third occasion that must have had some effect on Montag is when Mildrid overdosed on sleeping pills because she forgets she has taken them already. In the morning after her stomach is pumped, “She watched his lips casually. What about last night?” (Bradbury 16). Mildrid