Fahrenheit 451 Part 1 Change

On page 121 of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Montag feels triumphant and proud over killing Beatty while pulling his one-liner, “You always said, don't face your problems, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both.” and saying goodbye arrogantly. However, Montag starts to realize what he just did and how redundant and obtuse his actions were because now, he’s a fugitive on the run. Later on in the text, when Montag is hobbling around the woods, trying to escape the entire salamander squad, he begins to berate himself, calling himself an idiot and a fool multiple times. These events, in general, cause a massive attitude change for Montag and you can start to see that, little by little, he starts to go insane.

In most of Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag is struggling to find who he really is. He finally sees the world as it really is and he cannot convince anyone else that everything in this world is wrong. Montag had a breaking point when he was living with the people of the world being so blind that he snapped and showed him the real him. "Damn it!" cried Montag. "What do you know about Hoag and Noble?"(Bradbury 93) This was when it all started. He showed the women that he read books and he denied listening to faber. He was on his own now . He broke away from the “status quo” and the way that Bradbury did it was that in the moment you did not know that this was the turning point in the book but after reading on you relise that this was the thing that set the ball rolling. He literally breaks away when he says “Damn it!”

Together, Granger, Montag, and the other individuals witness an atomic blast that destroys the city. The atomic blast ends Montag’s journey and the beginning of another one: rebuilding the city. Montag’s journey is also

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!

Granger is the head of a group of former book burners who memorize and recall books for preservation. “All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there” (151). In this moment, Granger explains to Montag that his group remembers whole books, but he implies that by doing so, it reveals something disturbing. With the risks that come of hiding away with books in mind, Granger and his friends still do it. “We’re used to that. We all made the right king of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here. When we were separate individuals, all we had was rage. I struck a fireman when he came to burn my library years ago. I’ve been running ever since. You want to join us, Montag” (150)? After Montag is filled in by Granger

In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” Montag starts off as seemingly normal as he goes about his job, home life and inner conscious. As elements are introduced, it is clear that psychologically he has been trained to think a certain way and live his life as if it were written, or programmed. Ray Bradbury creates this world that seems to promote “sameness” in Montag’s society, and clearly discourages any deviation of one’s job or role in society. In the course of the story, Montag ‘sinner peace is interrupted when he encounters a woman named Clarisse on his way home from work. From this moment, Montag is intrigued, and his inner psychological consciousness is impacted in a way that will change the way he sees his role in society, personal, professional, and even love life. His relationship with himself, his wife Mildred, his boss Beatty, and his coworkers, and finally the most impactful Clarisse. This affects Montag, and help him see his dystopian society for what it truly is, and how he’s been serving it.

This quotes tone, helps helps to establish the characterization of Montag, and how he sees things for what they are when others in this society do not. The characterization in this scene helps the reader to see Montag’s characterization. Montag’s tone to Mrs. Bowles helps to clarify how the society thinks. A normal person who had feelings would not move on as fast as she did with her first two husbands. It helps to characterize this societys numbness to emotions. Montag seeing this throughout not feeling any emotion towards his wife and her none back to him it is quite sad, no compassion anywhere. " 'And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all

In his book Bradbury penned “No, we’ll save what we can, we’ll do what there is left to do” after he described Montag consuming Captain Beatty with a flamethrower and realizing how he is willing to give his life for a cause in order to bring about improvement to the world. The previous quote directly related to the Korean War, which Bradbury intended in order to uncover the importance of a soldier's willingness to sacrifice everything they have for a cause they believe in. Montag was trying to protect those he loved, while still working for the cause he believed in. He was dedicated in bringing down the current society in his world no matter the consequence. This in turn related to the time period in which Bradbury’s penned his main points in his book. He scribed Fahrenheit 451 towards the beginning of the cold war and in the midst of the Korean War. He watched on as humanity started down the dehumanizing path it currently exists in. Bradbury realized the severe impact dehumanization had on the world and one of the plausible ways to rectifying the problem was by informing the public on the importance of standing up for a cause. Many of his readers did not necessarily agree with his viewpoints and considered them to be irrelevant in society. As time has worn on however, people have realized

Montag was disengaged from himself and the world. During the intro of the book Bradbury exemplifies this when he writes, “It was a pleasure to burn. 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

Montag and John were both the bravest people in their society. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag’s bravery comes after he confronts the fact that he was harming his society

One of those people is Montag who is aware that his life is falling apart when he tells his wife, "'We're heading off a cliff, Millie. God, I don't want to go over.' " Montag thinks his life is a mess because of his society so he is very upset. Additionally, not only is just Montag upset, but his new friends are also. Granger shows his anger by announcing it to the group "'...we were separate individuals, all we had was rage.'

The books were being described as, “The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.” (117) Not until after the books were burning (Something he’d been told was right all his life), did he realize how special and beautiful they were. He realized he was being lied to about everything. On the bus, Montag keeps reciting a verse, “They toil neither do they...”(79) He was hidden from knowledge for so long that what he’s now learning is confusing him.

Section 2 is entitled "The Sieve and the Sand". This refers to a memory that Montag has in this chapter. He recalls a

To begin, rebelling against oppressive rule has allowed Montag to escape their rulers brainwashing and free their minds from the corruptive manipulation put in place by ruling powers. Author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury goes on to explain, “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

Montag realizes that the idea of impact and influence greatly establish who someone is as an individual. The men in the countryside help him to realize that legacy is an aspect that his society intends to shield him from. When Granger speaks to Montag he mentions that in life it does not “matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away” (Bradbury 150). With the advice of Granger, Montag starts to feel less alone in his idea that contribution is a significant part of individuality. The society he lived in produced the idea that people should just live in their homes and watch