Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Clarisse, Montag’s neighbor, is a person that introduces him to a world without technology. She is the catalyst that turns Montag from a mindless drone into a free-thinking and questioning intellectual. She does this when they first meet at the beginning of the novel and they have a conversation. "’I rarely watch the 'parlor walls' [...] So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts [...] Have you seen the -two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? [...]’” [(7). When Montag realizes that he has not been paying attention to these little things in life, he starts to become more interested in talking to Clarisse because she shows him another perspective on life other than a world filled with technology. She shows

Montag is a brainwashed and simple-minded person like everyone else in the small community. Until he met Clarisse, she talked about how she's different from everyone else and that she saw he was too. They bonded together every now and then, and Clarisse which later on made him a different person. Montag looked around the neighborhood but didn’t find Clarisse, he started to ask questions which led to conflicting things and then realized that the world is being manipulated, one example from the story would be fire.

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

Montag grew closer to Clarisse each time they talked, and he enjoyed that. So this shows that Montag, when he talks to Clarisse, gets to be himself and become independent and has to think for himself instead of everyone else thinking for him.

Clarisse made things real to Montag. Montag never had love, family, or feelings because he didn’t know what they were. He didn’t know what he was missing out on so he would never miss it. Knowledge changes people and Montag is the perfect example. With the knowledge he gathers he realizes what is wrong with their society.

Clarisse is one of the characters who influenced Montag by showing her own world. Clarisse remind Montag the fireman’s real job. Clarisse said ‘”strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames”’ (pg 8). Clarisse is the one of character who read a book in conflict read society. She confused Montag on

As Montag took Clarisse’s advice by noticing the outside world, it helped him calm down and

Captain of the firemen and he is the one who discovers Montag’s secret and tries to make him burn down his own house.

This is character development and where Montag learns more about her. Then afterwards, they go on an adventure to figure out why their society is the way it is. Eventually, Montag will regain his happiness again by spending more time with Clarisse possibly. I wonder what kind of a relationship they will build as we progress in the plot.

Clarisse helps Montag look around him and see everything, from the smallest snowflake to the biggest tree. Montag never really thinks about what is happening in his life, or why it seems he never shows much emotion towards anything. Clarisse teaches Montag to look around and to pay attention to what is really important in life, just not what his society tells him. Even though I believe Clarisse was the reason for Montag’s major metamorphosis, I believe that there were two additional individuals that had a role to play in Montag’s expedition to find answers to fill the void in his life.

And as many times he came out if the house and Clarisse was there somewhere in the world. Once he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnut in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumbtacked to his door.” Montag keeps thinking about Clarisse and she has done for him for the past years, he must feel lonely. Montag feels like his wife is no there for him and the only one that was there to hear him out was unfortunately Clarisse, but she not there anymore, “ What was it Clarisse has said one afternoon?

Fahrenheit 451 Often in literature an author will create a character to be used as a catalyst for the protagonist. A catalyst is a person or thing that causes change or increases the rate of change in the other person or thing. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury in 1953, Bradbury portrays the story of an individual who is changed by a catalyst who enters the individual’s life in a casual way. Suddenly a young female, Clarice enters a man by the name of Montag’s life one night and that night changes everything. Bradbury uses this encounter with Clarice in order to convey the message that the perspective of someone else and what they have can make a very large impact on another’s life.

In the novel, Guy Montage, whose, job is to burn books because it’s not allowed in their states. For those, who are caught using the book are punished and arrested. Instead of reading the books, the citizens have to listen to radio and watch TV. The novel opens with Montage meeting Clarisse, who happens to be his neighbor, both of the makes a friendly relationship. Both of them talk about the issue that they are facing in the society; no one wants to do anything to make this society better. One day, montage finds out Clarisse has disappeared

Clarisse asks Montag one last question after they first meet, why is this question important to the book?

Clarisse is a different character that is portrayed in the book, she is considered anti social and sees the world differently from everyone else. She is only in the book for a short period of time but changes one character to see everything in a new perspective. Clarisse changes Montag from a man that hates books and loves to burn to a man that drinks the rain coming from the sky, reads books and starts to realize the society he lives in. She changes him for the better in the sense that now he is not thinking like everyone else in the society he is now learning about literature, knowledge and why this society is so non-thinking. For this change in the book it is a new beginning for Montag and to try