How Does Montag Affect Society

Clarisse is different from everyone else in that society; she acts slowly, she thinks, her uncle was even arrested once for being a pedestrian. After talking to Montag, she thought he was different -- he was peculiar. “ You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or

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 is known as an outcast and “guilty”. She lived on the edge and she was happy instead of the people following the rules to “achieve” happiness.

Clarisse is the first people who Montag considers to be a true friend. When Montag is speaking to his wife about friendship, he speaks about Clarisse. He tells his wife, "She's was the first person in a good many years I've really liked" (Bradbury 68). Montag liked Clarisse because he felt listened to and appreciated when he was speaking to her. He said, "But Clarisse's favorite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me" (Bradbury 68). Clarisse was good at conversation and genuinely was interested in what Montag had to say. Montag did not have a lot of people in his life he could openly to talk to, who not judge his opinions.

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.

“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies” (Bradbury, 23). This quotation shows that Clarisse is considered different in this society, and she must see a psychiatrist because she admires nature. Clarisse influences Montag by admiring nature, because Montag is now starting to realize the beauty of nature, and beginning to develop his own opinion. Clarisse strongly influenced Montag after her death.

[Hook]. Clarisse goes against the beliefs of the society, which can cause ideas to spread that can be used to create a powerful force. Clarisse had to be killed/silenced because her values are against their society. Society cannot risk the fight that would result if she, or others like her, were to live.

Clarisse changes the way Montag thinks and makes him see society differently. The technique used in this quote is the repetition of the word happy. By emphasizing the word happy, it shows how big of a deal this is to Montag to realize that this is missing from his life, Clarisse influences Montag for the greater good by ideas like this.. This really shows how Montag begins to think and speak more like Clarisse by questioning society rather than going along with everything everyone tells him, she really is beginning to change

Clarisse is innocent and young, therefore she has angelic features. When Montag first saw her, he thought "...her face [was] bright as snow in the moonlight". The brightness of Clarisse's face and the snowy white color represents her innocence. White is the color of an angel, the coming of Good. Clarisse is a representation of the Greater Good. She sees everything the rest of the society misses. She smells of the wild fruit and berries because she is nature; she is part of the Greater Good. Clarisse is aware of everything in her society. She has knowledge and she knows with knowledge, people have the power to change the Greater Good. She tells Montag, "Bet I know something you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning". Montag is baffled by this. Clarisse has knowledge of nature. The Greater Good is knowing nature. The society that Montag currently lives in has people killing each other for fun and no one goes for walks, as the might have in the past. They do not know about nature and the world outside of the people. Clarisse tells Montag she knows about the past and what the world is, besides the people. She questions a lot of different things. She helps Montag realize what the Greater Good is by questioning his way of life. She asks him "Are you happy?" therefore allowing Montag to think about what he is doing and what he wants to do with the time he has in the

She changes the way he thinks and he becomes a whole different guy. Although she was younger than him she influences him to change his life. Clarisse would listen to Montag without judging him because she did not care what people thought. She only cared about being herself and being happy not about what society thought. If Clarisse was like society Montag would have stayed the same person and never make a change in his life.

She unnerves Montag and effectively leaves him wondering about his contentment with life: "He was not happy." After meeting Clarisse, we begin to see the changes in Montag. He begins to question the way of things. This change plays a key factor when they recieve a call to burn a house. The final straw for Montag is the burning of a woman and her books.

Clarisse is different. She’s different from everyone else in the town that’s around her. She doesn’t just believe what society has told her. “Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn on accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames. “Clarisse is always wondering and that intrigued Montag.

Clarisse is capable of allowing him to open his eye’s and see the emptiness of his life, by just asking him a simple question. Over the next few weeks, Montag is challenged as a

Clarisse changed Montag. She questioned him, making him think. Something he hasn’t done in a while. As the days past and Montag always finds himself walking with Clarisse every single day and every single day he is questioned and quite frankly left stunned. I have a feeling that Clarisse's family has a library hidden in their house which would explain why she’s always questioning Montag and seems more curious and almost smarter than everyone else. I can’t help but take note that Beatty seemed afraid of Clarisse most likely caused by her seeming sharper than everyone else. I don’t want to dwell on the character Clarisse too much but I could not help but notice the similarities between Clarisse and Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter

Clarisse tries to get Montag to see through her point of view, to see the world differently and not be afraid to question. She is one of the few that wish to open