Guy Montag's Job In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

threaten me” (21). Clarisse helped Montag to start thinking and examining his life. The first time they met, Clarisse asked him if he was happy. Though Montag’s answer was “of course”, it gets him to think. He then realized that he was never happy, but “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” (9). Another time, she questions his family, that he was not in love with anyone. Montag was upset, but soon he realized that that might be true -- neither Mildred (his wife) or himself remembered where they first met. Clarisse also asked why he chose the job and that she heard fireman puts out fire instead of starting them a long time ago. They all made Montag think and question about his life and the world, which led up to all his following actions to save the society. Without Clarisse, he might just be a fireman forever, and probably

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

The first time Montag and Clarisse meet, Clarisse shows that she is very curious by questioning everything. Many of these questions insult Montag or make him angry. Some make him wonder and question things that he has always known. In the very first conversation Montag and Clarisse have, Clarisse asks “'Are you happy?'she said.” (Bradbury 10). At first, Montag thinks this is a stupid question. Then after he goes home and ponders this question, he realizes that he isn't happy at all. Clarisse also tells Montag of a time when

A fire starts out as a small match, and it moves to a roaring flame. Guy Montag is also a simple match when he is introduced in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He starts out as a casual fireman, and he is hypnotized by society. Montag’s life sees a spark of change as the story begins. Many events influence his characteristics. When he is filling a house with kerosene and the lady inside voluntarily remains inside to burn. When the house is finally ignited, Montag suddenly ponders why a person would die over books. He fights to find a clear answer and discovers that only books can restore thought to society. Montag is a changing character throughout the novel. Like a match held to a newspaper, Montag’s mind starts searing away in thought.

In the beginning of the book Ray Bradbury shows how Montog reacts to fire when he is ignorant. Montag did not think about what he was doing while he burned books because he had not began reading books himself. “Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt corked, in the mirror.(4)” This quote shows Montag's outlook on fire before he began reading books himself. Montag was a complex character in Fahrenheit 451. His views constantly change as the story progresses. In the end of the book, Bradbury showed him and his reactions to fire where, after his ignorance had been lifted. He had realized that it could do more than cause destruction and take away pieces of art away, but that it could help bring people together. Bradbury shows this when montag finds people come together around fire rather than be pulled apart because of it: “It was not only the fire that was different. It was the silence that was concerned with all of the world.(146)” Montag looked at the fire at the end of the book and felt happy and at peace with the world. He did not feel anger or a resistance to the fire, but he was one with it and was no longer ignorant to how special books

However, Montag starts changing when he starts to question things in ways he has never done before after his encounter with Clarisse. In their first meeting, Clarisse tells Montag that she had once heard that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them and Montag laughs at this. Clarisse then says, “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you” (8). The people in this society don’t engage in real conversations and ultimately have no mind of their own. By saying this Clarisse challenges Montag to actually think about things. Clarisse also makes Montag question his own happiness in life when she asks him if he’s happy (10). Montag initially thinks that it’s a ridiculous question and he believes that he is obviously happy. However, this question effectively leaves Montag wondering about his contentment with life: “He was not happy” (12). Montag realizes that he is in fact not happy with his current life as a fireman and with his relationship with Mildred. Clarisse offers Montag a new perspective on life that he has never really considered. Montag at first was as brainwashed as the majority in the society, but thanks

Montag begins to think about what Clarisse said to him “Are you happy?” (pg 10). When he returns home, he realizes that he is not happy with his

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was first published in 1933, and its story entails a futuristic world in the middle of a nuclear war. The totalitarian government of this future forbids its people from reading or taking a part in other acts that involve individual thinking. The law against reading is, presumably, fairly new, and the government is faced with the enormous task of destroying all of its citizens' books. This disposal of books is the profession of the main character, Guy Montag, who is officially titled a "fireman." He and his crew raid libraries and homes, burning any books they find before dozens of overjoyed onlookers. Throughout the beginning of the novel, Montag appears to be a

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.

Carson Namen English 1 H Mrs. Bardin 5/1/17 Fire! It is hard to imagine firemen starting fires instead of putting them out. Yet that is what occurs in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Writing in 1953, Bradbury warns readers about a future that could happen. Bradbury notices dehumanization in society as technology makes people become less personable and less capable of independent thought.

The belief that Montag had formerly known is changed by Clarisse and it makes him believe that he is both happy and unhappy. At first he believes he is happy because he knows what he's always been doing with his life, however when he meets Clarisse, he suddenly realizes that there is nothing for him to be happy about. This shows how Clarisse is the representation of belief because she is able to show him how his previous beliefs were false in that they were not truly making him happy. Clarisse explains to Montag that beliefs can be changed over time, but unlike her, Beatty does not have the time to convince

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a story of the character Guy Montag who is a fireman in a dystopian society, a society in which people get entertainment from giant TVs they call “Parlor Walls” and houses have been deemed fireproof. Since fireman do not need to run around and eliminate fires, they start them. The job of a fireman in this dystopian society is that they burn books and the places that contain them, all the while being the official censors of the state. But there is something different about Montag, he used to be a proud fireman, he had the look of one: “black hair, black brows... fiery face, and... blue-steel shaved but unsaved look” as it states on page 30, the feel of one: “It was

Within the novel different characters effected Guy Montag in different ways, bringing out different emotions from within him, and helping him realize not only who he was as an individual, but what role he was playing within the society that he resided in. The first character that brings upon this change from within Guy Montag is Clarisse McClellan. Upon Montag’s and Clarisse’s first conversation, Guy Montag at the time period is a fireman that took pride in his work (of burning literature, and the property in which they resided). He saw nothing wrong with what he did, and was seemingly set in his ways in regards to how his society functioned as whole and how literature was illegal to have.

Montag recognizes that burning books is more than destroying pieces of paper. Books are the foundation for the future of the society in Fahrenheit 451. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is a firefighter. A firefighter in the society of Fahrenheit 451 is someone who burns the books.

To begin, lets go back to the question that was asked, “Why is Montag role so important in this book?”. Is it because the author is trying to portray him as a hero or is it automatically a stereotypical mind thought, that firefighters are already foreseen as heroes? When Montag characters personality portray him as a hero; where he does take pride in this title, until his views