Fahrenheit 451 Who Influences Guy Montag

Many people talk about how the world is slowly caving in as people are desensitized emotionally. Opposers suggest that it is technology’s fault for sucking a person’s mind into oblivion twenty four hours a day. However, it is the people themselves who are going to bring about their own destruction. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the actions of the public perfectly exemplifies a worst-case scenario of the future coming to mayhem. In this world, books not accepted by the law are burned by “firefighters” so that everyone is taught the same information. Nobody strays from the “truth”, and this way, everyone is treated equally. There is no nerd and there is no bully. The public is encouraged to listen to live streams of people talking in headphone devices called seashells. Yet for one man in particular, Guy Montag, he struggled between fitting in with the public or pursuing an “itch” he has always had. These feelings started when he had a short talk with his neighbor, Clarisse McClellan. In school, Clarisse has always been seen as an outcast, yet by Montag, her strange facts of realization intrigued him. She knew curious information that he did not, and this made him angry. It was not until she mysteriously disappeared that he really started to understand the depth to her words. She knew more about life, and he was determined to find the same information in the forbidden books. Ironically, Montag was a firefighter, but he

People can change due to the influence of other people. Guy Montag changes from being a book burning monster to an independent knowledge seeker due to the influences of Clarisse McClellan. Montag in Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury shows how he acted before he changed, after meeting Clarisse, and after meeting Faber.

In the novel, FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag lives in an inverted society, where firemen make fires instead of put them out, and pedestrians are used as bowling pins for cars that are excessively speeding. The people on this society are hypnotized by giant wall size televisions and seashell radios that are attached to everyone’s ears. People in Montag’s society do not think for themselves or even generate their own opinions; everything is given to them by the television stations they watch. In this society, if someone is in possession of a book, their books are burned by the firemen, but not only their books, but their entire home. Montag begins realizing that the things in this society are not right. Montag is influenced and

Imagine a life where firemen starts fire instead of putting them out. Imagine a life where books are illegal. Imagine a life where we have no control over our thoughts (anaphora). This is the life of Guy Montag, protagonist of Rey Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. At first, guy takes pleasure in his job as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the house of their owners. However, a series of events soon makes him question his profession, and sequently, life itself. Guy, troubled and intrigued, seeks to find answers, and in turn, undergo a journey of self discovery. Throughout this journey, the once ignorant Guy transcends into a being of greater knowledge, in which he learns that humanity is nothing but an empty shell without books to fill in its void.

It is against the law to own books. When caught, firemen burn the books and the owners home along with it. Guy Montag is one of those firemen. He used to be an average guy, living in an average home and, he lived an average life. There was one thing about him that most people wouldn’t find very “normal” in past societies. He is a fireman. Some may not think that it’s odd to be fireman, but, in this society, firemen don’t have the role that most would think. According to the “new” government, books are illegal and the people who own them are criminals. Firemen, on the other hand, are instructed to find who owns said books, go to that person’s home and burn those books along with the owners home. Guy Montag has changed drastically throughout the story. He used to be an average guy, but now he is a criminal on the run.

The first main character of Fahrenheit 451 is Guy Montag. He is a 30 year old fireman, who has black hair and smelled of kerosene, and at first wasn’t an individual or a thinker, but developed into one as the story progressed. He is a dynamic character who was very angry and confused about his life, and the life his society tells him to live. Montag is the protagonist, and he goes against the government to change the society for the better. His goal is to preserve knowledge and literature for future generations. Montag said, “‘I realized that a man was behind each one of those books’” (49). This shows that he acknowledged that books were written by real people, with their real thoughts in them; that they had details and meaning to them. This was something most people in this society did not realize.

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s thousands of years later, and there’s not a single book in sight. If you hide a book, you’ll be arrested, and your books will be burned. Guy Montag is a fireman, and his job to burn the books. However, he begins to question the system, after working this job for years.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury presents a futuristic American city where books are banned and firemen burn any that are found. Guy Montag is featured in the opening lines of Fahrenheit 451, he is a firefighter who burns books simply because that it is his job and that a fireman's duty to destroy knowledge and encourage ignorance in order to equalize the population. In the first part of the novel Guy Montag is aligned with bad guys, but as the novel progresses Guy Montag transforms into a different person and at the end he attempts to reclaim lost pieces of the human civilization.

1. There are many characters in the novel, Fahrenheit 451 who had a massive impact and influence on the main character, Guy Montag, and caused him to change in many ways. One character who greatly influenced Montag and aided in his change of personality and beliefs was his neighbor Clarisse, a bright teenage girl who had a curious nature unlike any person Montag had met before. When compared to other children her age, Clarisse was considered an outcast and strange but her optimism, love for the many beautiful things on earth, and the values taught to her by her family members helped to inspire Montag to begin exploring nature and the earth, and to really begin thinking and questioning the integrity of his job as a fireman. Another character that helped influence Guy Montag was Professor Faber. Faber, an English teacher who almost did not go through with helping Montag due to his cowardice, ended up greatly helping Montag through the treacherous future events that he would experience. One of the most beneficial and influential things that Faber did to help Montag was influencing Montag's words by guiding him through the the questions asked by the sly Captain Beatty in the firehouse.

Guy Monag is introduced to the scene stating, “It was a pleasure to burn.”(1), as he is standing over the torched remains of books. Considering this, the reader’s image of Guy Montag is that of a man who may be a pyro, and maybe a bit irresponsible. As we later some to see, Captain Beatty describes this use of fire as “... clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Autobiotic, aesthetic, practical.”(109). We can conclude from this that Montag isn't very thoughtful or emotional, because if he were, he would not seem so numb as he burns down someone's home. These facts considered, it's not to say that Montag can't change, because after this scene we see him walking home. Which gives him leisure to think about how much he adores and loves his job, although today his ‘job’ would be considered arson, which is a felony. All in all, we are not surprised by how easy it was for Clarisse McClellan to be able to make his entire world crumble with a single question.

Questioning One’s Feelings: Risking One’s Life for Change Over the course of history, humans have been a species that have effectively evolved and adapted to change. Often this change was the result of human intellect and thinking.

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized that this is the true 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” (Bradbury 9).

In every book you read there are always characters that influence the protagonist. They are there to direct the main character in the right direction or to create a change in the main character. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury there are many characters the influence Guy Montag who was a fireman in the story. Montag is living in a time period where fireman don’t put fires out but they start fire. The reason they burn books is to keep people from learning new thing and thinking about things. They wanted everyone to know only the bare minimum and what the government wanted them to think. Montag starts to realize that burning books is causing his life to have no meaning. Throughout the book the characters of Clarisse, Mrs. Blake, and Faber all influenced him.

Do you like burning books? Montag, a thirty year old fire men. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 Montag lives in a dystopian society. Montag’s main goal as a fireman is to whoever reads or has a book to burn the house that contains books.

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag lives in a dystopian society, where firemen make fires instead of putting them out, and pedestrians looked down upon when hit by cars going excessively fast. The people of this society are hypnotized by giant wall-size televisions and seashell radios that are attached to everyone’s ears. People in Montag’s society do not think for themselves or even generate their own opinions; everything is given to them by the television stations they watch. In Ray Bradbury’s writing, he includes important character development in Montag that focuses on curiosity, learning, and diverging from society’s norms, Leonard Mead represents someone who has kept all of these skills.