Guy Montag In Fahrenheit 451

His personality is different from other firefighters. He isn’t intimidating and doesn’t necessarily think that burning books is good. I do like Montag, but I’m waiting for him to make up his mind about whose side he’s on.

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

Unquestionably, all novels can convey multiple meanings depending on a variety of factors with the most important being the manner in which the audience interprets the author’s words. More importantly, to professionally draw conclusions concerning the message the author demonstrates throughout a text, it is essential to discuss and apply the five literary elements of literature to the text. In greater detail, when a work itself is criticized or evaluated, usually one literary element is focused on to prove an argument pertaining to a novel. To bring the topic into focus, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 possesses many points that could be argued in contradictory ways based upon factual

Pages 1-32 - Guy Montag is a fireman at the fire department. Unlike regular firefighters, Guy and his co-workers are the ones to start fires. Guy is contempt with his life, at least until he meets Clarisse McClellan who changes his outlook on his current state of living. Clarisse makes Guy think deeper into what is going on around him. He realizes that he in fact is not happy with his wife Mildred, his job, or the way society acts.

Holden’s interactions with Sally Hayes and the nuns challenges Holden’s way of thinking because his corrupt way of thinking will prevent him from functioning very well in life especially with his negative outlook on life and others. Holden got lucky that he happened to know English literature so he could relate with the

Bradbury’s Novel Fahrenheit 451, the main character named Guy Montag is a firefighter for over 10 years now, and has been “hypnotized” by the salamander and has occasional flashbacks about it. In the beginning of the novel, he meets this girl named Clarisse McClellan who is 17 and a little bit sassy because of the way she is towards Guy’s answers to her questions. Clarisse raised her eyebrows and said “Your a fireman?!” She thought it was really odd for a 30 year old man to be a firefighter talking to a 17 year old girl. She smelled this huge disturbing fragrance of Kerosene which was basically a normal scent that he always has.

Who knew that a seventeen year old girl could change the mind of a full grown thirty year old man about his life? In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag is meet with a life changing moment when he meets Clarisse a girl who goes completely the other direction of the law. She forces Guy Montag to think about his happiness his life decisions, his job burning books. The Turning point in his life cause him to also break the law and collect a book from every burning the firemen do. Eventually Montag tells the fier capital Beaty about his book but only say he has one but Beaty knew about Montag collecting books and goes to Montag's house to burn it down. Beatty makes Guy burn his own

Another major factor behind Holden’s perplex personality is his depression. Holden’s makes his depression clear when he states, “New York 's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. I kept wishing I could go home and shoot the bull for a while with old Phoebe” (Salinger 81) The joy of other brings misery to himself. However Holden wasn’t always depressed, much like any human being there were moments in his life where he experienced happiness. This is demonstrated when he talks about his younger brother as he states, “You 'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. And they weren 't just shooting the crap. They really meant it.” (Salinger 38) Holden’s tone in his descriptions establish how much he idolized his brother. One can only

As the novel progresses, we realize that ironically Holden's alienation becomes the source of most of his pain throughout the book. Although he never realizes the fact that his pain is being derived from his isolation and lack of human interaction, Salinger places clues in the book that tell us that it is so. With the introduction of Sally Hayes, Salinger is able to craft a relationship that effectively depicts the conflict in Holden. It is loneliness that initially propels Holden into a date with Sally. However, during the date Holden's need for isolation returns, he "didn't even know why" he "started all that stuff with her. The truth is" he "probably wouldn't have taken her even if she wanted to go." Because Sally is unable to recognize the feelings on the "phoniness" of school that he projects, he becomes frustrated and uses a rampaging monologue to upset her and drive her away. The only time in the

In this novel the “hero” is Guy Montag. Guy is a fireman who believes he is happy. Contrary to the jobs of firemen today, his job is to start fires rather than put them out. He burns books and the houses that inhabit them to ashes. Montag lives a very mundane life, like the rest of society. However, when he meets Clarisse McClellan, a young curious neighbor, everything begins to spiral down as she makes him notice what he is missing in his life. Something has been taken away from him that makes him feel empty and discontent. “He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as 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 12).

The flash of rusty red and yellow smoke glow above the crackle of fresh books being burned. A foggy night is lit up with a house fire. Behind a helmet labeled 451 is a man in his 30's smiling from ear to ear, Guy Montag. Guy Montag, the protagonist in Fahrenheit 451. Guy is a typical fireman who loves the sight of fire and smell of burning books.

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.

They had a system and it worked for the most part. There were no books allowed anywhere so that no one could think. There were people called firemen and if they got a call saying there were books hidden somewhere they would head over and burn the books and/or the house the books were located in. Guy Montag was one of these firemen who loved their job but started questioning his belief in the practice. There were many actions and thoughts that had caused him to change his mindset of burning all the books to wanting to have a future with books, a future where people could think freely and not end up the same as everyone else. One of these actions was when he met a 17-year-old girl named Clarisse and she told him about the past when everyone could

“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 first character in the novel Fahrenheit 451 who influences Guy Montag is seventeen year-old Clarisse McClellan. The first time Guy and Clarisse cross paths occurs when Guy is walking home from work close to midnight. They meet on an empty sidewalk and quickly begin conversation. As they continue talking, Guy notices that Clarisse is not an average teenager because of the deep questions and thoughts she has. Clarisse questions Guy’s contentment and makes him realize the absence of love and pleasure in his life. Clarisse acts as a goad to push Guy towards a much needed self-examination that later helps him overcome his fear of bringing out the books he has collected over the years and start to look for the meaning in them. Because of Clarisse, Guy is able to transform into a more self-aware man who can now decode his feelings and realize what he needs to have a flourishing life. The second character I chose who impacts Guy Montag is Professor Faber. Guy met Faber in a park a year before this novel takes place when Guy suspected Faber of having a book. When Guy finally builds up his interest in wanting to know more about his secret books, he calls Faber for aid. With Faber’s knowledge, Guy is able to understand viewpoints from different authors and eventually escape the city after he is reported for having books. Alongside Clarisse, Faber is able to help Montag from being completely molded into an average city citizen who is isolated from the knowledge that books are,