Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

This also shows that Montag wanted to learn more about the books, due to him keeping them. However, what would have happened to Montag’s views on books if Clarisse had not been in the book? Would Montag still have felt the same way towards books or still change his view on books? With the use of the information from the book, Montag would have eventually changed his views on books. He would still have wanted to save the books and to learn how important books are.

In the world of Fahrenheit 451, books are burned because they are “confusing”, schools teach students with meaningless facts, and people are forced to drive at high speeds so they can’t see what’s around them. We can see that people stopped pondering their surroundings in the world of the book. In schools, students are crammed with useless facts, and are not taught about the reasons behind it. By extracting the “meaning”, it limited types of expressions. Books were one of them. Knowledge changed to simply “knowing” facts, without the reasons. By manipulating the understanding of knowledge and inquiry, books were considered confusing and “not good”. In the end, it was the public that stopped reading books, as Beatty said.

Often in literature a character who is alienated from society. In Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse McClellan is alienated from her society. Clarisse is alienated through her abnormal values, her family’s values, and by not attending to society’s norm. This can show, through her alienation, her society’s morals and values.

She is considered antisocial and odd by people including her teacher and classmates and the way she thinks and talks is different, “‘Well,’ she said, ‘isn’t this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.’” (5) The way her mind works is complex and unique to the society. Clarisse shows the side of people in her society who like books because she herself is a book reader and her unusual display of her knowledge represents the human side of this

Guy Montag is a fireman who is greatly influenced in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451. The job of a fireman in this futuristic society is to burn down houses with books in them. Montag has always enjoyed his job, that is until Clarisse McClellan comes along. Clarisse is seventeen and crazy. At least, this is what her uncle, whom she gets many of her ideas about the world from, describes her as. Clarisse and Montag befriend each other quickly, and Clarisse's impact on Montag is enormous. Clarisse comes into Montag's life, and immediately begins to question his relationship with his wife, his career, and his happiness. Also, Clarisse shows Montag how to appreciate the simple things in life. She teaches him to care about other people and

One thing that is crucial to understanding the main character, Guy Montag, is that he doesn’t wish pain on those who don't deserve it. In this passage where Montag is talking about his wife he says that he won’t feel sad if she dies, but he still does not want her to die in the bombing. Even though she was an awful wife who put Guy through hell, he does not want her to be in pain. The fact that he was hurting a woman who had never done anything wrong but own a book is the turning point for Montag’s change of opinions about books. If this woman had not felt strongly enough about her books to die with them, then Montag wouldn’t have believed that they had valuable information in them.Without this quality, Montag would not have killed Beatty, and he would have died in the bombing. In summary, Guy Montag would not hurt anyone who he didn’t think deserved it. Because of this quality he is alive today.

1. The narrator, Ray Bradbury is saying the words. He is comparing the soft fluttering of a fly’s wings in ones ear to the vibration that occurred in Montag’s ear when Faber

In this society, it is important to read a book for own knowledge. However, in novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, people are not allowed to read any book nor have any desires to read. They do not know the importance of the book. However, in this novel, three people influence Montag that human should read books and allows him to realize how important it is to do so.

James Madison once said that “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”James Madison quote relates to Fahrenheit 451 because when Montag finally had realized how good books are, he didn’t let the government tell him what to do or what he cannot learn. Knowledge is a powerful factor that empowers people

Several times in Fahrenheit 451 it occurs that the firefighters must go and burn books. Once, the firefighters go and burn a man’s library of books. Montag later asks what happened to the man himself, and Beatty, the fire captain, answers that ‘they took him screaming off to the asylum.’ The second case is a little more disturbing. A woman’s neighbor calls the firefighters claiming that she has reason to suspect that her neighbor is hiding books in her library. When the firefighters arrive, the women has not been removed from her house and clearly has no intention of leaving. The firefighters begin to spray the house with kerosene and demand that the women leave, but before they can light the house, the women strikes a match, and she and the house are engulfed in flames. The women was so hopeless with the current society that she figured it would be better to just end her life. One of the last people caught reading books was Guy Montag. A neighbor calls the firefighters and when they arrive at the house, Guy realizes that it is his own house which they intend to burn. His fellow firefighters burn the house, and out of rage, Guy burns Beatty, the fire captain. He then escapes into nearby woods, but is chased and followed until all search teams eventually give up on finding

Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, is an alarming science fiction classic novel and a powerful commentary on humankind’s urge to suppress what it doesn’t understand. In this dystopian fictional world books are illegal; they are burned to a crisp when found. Books are very powerful. They come with knowledge, and knowledge can bring fear. Fear many times is something one cannot understand. To understand, one must know why one fears. Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 realizes this importance of the knowledge in books when he meets a young woman; Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is an outsider, a very different type of girl. When she meets Montag, Clarisse sparks a change in him. Her curiosity and questioning is so unique that Montag is struck by her. He

(AGG) Have you ever been obsessed with “stuff”? Yes, we all want the basic things such as the latest iPhone model or new sneakers. But in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the society takes this obsession to the next level. (BS-1) The society prioritizes their items. (BS-2) These items then replace the feelings society has for themselves and others in their life. (BS-3) But once they are separated from their items, the society acquires qualities that were once astray. (TS) Ray Bradbury depicts a key message in the novel Fahrenheit 451: that the society is consumed by “stuff” and have no care for the things that actually matter.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is telling a story about a dystopian society about how it was illegal to have books or a book. If you had one a fireman would come and burn your house down or would burn your books. In this story there is a lot of censorship which means the society hides things from the people and they act like everything's okay by hiding it by something else. Some censorship in this is story is the firemen getting paid to set books on fire so no one can have knowledge in this story we will look at 3 characters Montag, Beaty, and Clarisse and how they deal with this censorship in this story.

Guy Montag, who at the beginning of the book is confronted by Clarisse, is the dystopian protagonist in this society. At the beginning of the book he was a firefighter who burned books, and thought that he enjoyed doing it. “It was a pleasure to burn. It was

Guy Montag appears, in the beginning, to be an average firemen, having no problem with the burning of books and even enjoys doing it. He describes the feeling saying, "it was a pleasure to burn... to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" until he met a young woman named Clarisse (Bradbury 1). She began asking him questions and telling him all the things that she thought about life. Questioning she asks him, "Are you happy?” it’s an honest question that Montag finds incredulous (Bradbury 7). At first Montag found her odd, but it wasn't until later, when she was gone that he realized that she might have been making sense, not just about him but everyone. Here the reader can see Montag first starting to think about what's happening around him. He reflects, "But she was different. How did that happen?” (Bradbury 57). He can clearly see that she was different, still a bit odd, but he knew she had a right view on the world, that