Montag’s Surroundings with Books and Technology People think that technology is their life but in reality it is not. Technology is just something that entertains you. It is not the most important thing in life you can literally go at least a month without your phone even though you think that you cannot. I have had to do it before for six months. People can live without their phones and one example of putting our phones down is when I went to Altitude last night and we were all on trampolines playing dodge ball and throwing and dodging during the game and being active and none of us had our phones out texting or looking at social media so it really was not that hard to put down my phone. In Fahrenheit 451 there was a character named Montag …show more content…
Montag had to go to this woman’s house where she has hidden books and her house was on the list to be burned. The fireman named Blackman started to count down from one to ten and then the lady done something that they thought no one would ever do, ’’The woman on the porch then reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing’’ (Bradburry37).She did not want to leave here books alone and let them burn, so she lit a match and then fell on top of her books to burn with them. Beatty talks about something from a book after the woman is burned, ‘’A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16,1555’’(Bradburry37). Beatty was talking about how a man was burned for having books. He had done the same thing as the woman in the …show more content…
Montag thought that no one knew about the books, but his wife Mildred did and she wanted to tell on Montag. Then while Mildred had her friends over Montag read poetry to them, ‘’Ah, love, let us be true, to one another for the world, which it seems to lie’’ (Bradbury 96). Montag read a book to prove a point to the women that books are important. The women then went and told on Montag for having books. Beatty then went to drive to Montag’s house then, ‘’They rounded a corner in thunder and a siren, with conclusion of tires, with scream of rubber, with a shift of kerosene bulk in glittery brass tank, like the food in the stomach of a giant, with Montag’s fingers jolting off the silver rail, swinging into cold space, with the wind tearing his hair back from his head, with the wind whistling in his teeth, and him all the while thinking of the chaff woman in his parlor tonight, with the kernels blown out from them by a neon wind, and his silly damned reading of a book to them’’ (Bradburry106). Beatty drove to Montag’s house with Montag and the firemen to burn it. Montag was shocked and then Montag ran away to escape punishments. Montag was a fireman that burned books for the firehouse where he has been working. Montag loved burning books in the begging of the novel, but now at the end of the novel he doesn’t like burning the books anymore because he actually enjoys reading them.
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.
When the firemen were called to a house owned by a old lady, to burn the books she had. A book fell into Montag’s hands and without knowing it, he had stuffed in under his armpit in his coat.
In the first section, titled The Hearth and the Salamander, Montag shows perseverance. In this section he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan. She teaches him that it’s okay to think freely he questions if burning books is the right thing to do. When Montag returns home after meeting Clarisse he finds his wife, Mildred, had overdosed on pills, but she survived. Daily Montag met Clarisse and he got used to seeing her, until she went missing. Later on the firemen have to burn down a book-filled house of an old woman. The old woman cherishes her
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
Montag soon begins to enter the bonfire stage. Clarisse, is an observant, curious, open-minded and unique 17 year old girl. Montag, after meeting a couple times with Clarisse, is when his eyes truly open that his society is full of fake realities. He becomes observant and starts asking questions about his society. While being with Clarisse, Montag would smell the leaves and notice the small details; therefore, he was having a shift from being a prisoner to going up to the bonfire. On page #48 it says, “ You’re not sick,” said Mildred. Montag fell back in bed. He reached under the pillow. The hidden book was still there. “Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?” “You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books-” “You should have seen her, Millie!”…. “You weren’t there, you didn’t see ,” he said. “ There must be something in the books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” This is the event that changed Montags viewpoint on books
Firstly, Montag faces the conflict of having to burn down a house with a woman in it, which led him to thinking that something important may be hidden within the books that could be different from what he has learning in this new version of society; Montag becomes more curious through this event and starts to wonder. Eventually, the protagonist is so deeply engrossed in his curiosity that “his hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). This quote illustrates
When Clarisse told Montag about what firemen used to do as a job, it got him thinking, why do we burn books and what’s so bad about them. Furthermore while Montag gets caught for having books, “Mildred, of course, she must have watched him hide the books in the garden and bring them back in. Mildred. Mildred.”(pg
Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.
On part one of Fahrenheit 451, Montag and Mildred are fighting with one another about the woman and the books that Montag watched burn together. Mildred doesn’t think of it as a big deal since the woman chose to stay with the books instead of allowing the firemen to burn them. While in the middle of this argument, Montag states, “‘And
Guy Montag is a man that cannot think for himself and enjoys following the government’s orders. The novel introduces him with one of his thoughts, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). On his way home from work one day, Guy meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. She’s the only person who questions his actions and challenges him to start thinking about why he burns books. Clarisse asks Montag if he ever reads the books that he burns, Montag laughs and says, “That’s against the law!” (Bradbury 5). Montag has been so brainwashed and ignorant about burning books, but Clarisse gives him new ideas by continuing to create doubts in his mind. She talks to Montag about the firemen from the past and how they were different then they are now. Clarisse says to Montag, “Is it true that long ago
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.
Technology has secretly taken over society but no one will realize until it is too late. Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel written by author, Ray Bradbury in 1953. The novel takes place in a futuristic, utopian society in which technology is exceptionally advanced and it completes almost all everyday actions for people. Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of the main protagonist, Montag who is a fireman in a society where books are illegal and the main job of firemen is to burn all books. Most people in society are slaves to technology and have become completely disconnected from society especially Montag’s wife, Mildred. In his novel, Bradbury proves through Mildred’s shallow actions that technology, although innovative, holds society
Set in a futuristic society, Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 revolves around Guy Montag, a fireman who is employed to burn books and arrest those who have books in their possession. Montag starts off as the average fireman, one who does not question societal norms, especially those relating to books and other sources of knowledge. However, as the story goes on, Montag begins to reevaluate his stance on this topic, especially after he witnesses a woman die during one of his fire department’s missions because she does not wish to be separated from her books as they burn. However, though Montag undergoes a large change over the course of this novel, his wife, Mildred, does not. She remains the same person
Montag is now at the point where his views are being tested and new beliefs of life are being created. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (35). Here Montag sees a plethora of books inside of Mrs. Blake’s house and seemingly of its own accord Montag’s hand takes a book. He has now broken a rule that everyone in Montag’s society knows, never to take or read books. Mrs. Blakes, instead of coming with the firemen out of the house decides to burn with the books. This confuses Montag and piques his curiosity to figure out what inside the book could drive someone to die with
Throughout history, advances in technology are made to suit society. As society progresses, so does the technology that is used in daily life. Often, people do not realize that advanced machinery is actually a reflection of themselves and their needs. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and burned to prevent further knowledge so that people can live in peace without opposing views, however, by prohibiting knowledge, the society confines to a materialistic lifestyle. Parlours are TVs the size of walls, and the society in the novel uses them for entertainment, a distraction from reality. Firemen, like the protagonist Guy Montag, burn houses and the people in them who are caught harboring books, with the assistance of the Mechanical