Maxmilian Savin
Bledsoe
English 10
13 October 2014
Change in Perspective
Within Fahrenheit 451 Montag experiences many encounters with people, both good and bad. Most of the important people he encounters alter his views on his society or change his thoughts about things like books and intellectuals in general. Others he comes across are merely just mindless people that are basically examples and reinforce the idea of how his society is in a horrible state. It is likely that Clarisse is the most important person in Fahrenheit 451 that Montag encounters or meets. Clarisse acts as a catalyst for all of Montag’s actions from near the beginning of the novel to the end. “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 across the lawn with the mask” (Bradbury 9). These are Montag’s thoughts after meeting and speaking to Clarisse for the first time at the beginning of the novel. Before she leaves, she asks Montag if he is happy. This causes Montag to question his happiness and he concludes that it is not real happiness and that he’s just been wearing it like a mask,
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The Unidentified Old Woman is a person Montag saw at a call while he was working. The firemen are called to a house that has books and an old woman inside. Montag and the firemen go into the room with the books and douse them with kerosene. The old lady refuses to leave her books and dies with them. This, once again, calls Montag to question things. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house” (Bradbury 48). Montag questions if what he has been told his whole life is true. If books are useless, contradict each other, and upset people, why would someone want to die with the books. He starts the find out that there is something more to books than just conflicting
Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a novel by Ray Bradbury that takes place in a futuristic world where society is brainwashed into lacking free thought. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter, but because houses are fireproof and society dislikes the free thinking and creativity inspired by books, firefighters burn books as a janitorial job. One day while walking back from his job, Montag meets his new neighbor’s daughter. She talks crazy things that spark him into becoming a free thinker himself. After following society’s rules throughout his whole life, he suddenly switches and starts rebelling by threatening, endangering, and even killing others to try to prove his point to his brainwashed enemies that this way of life is wrong. After burning his path throughout the city, Montag runs away from the police finding his balanced
In the beginning of the section Montag is instructed by his boss to burn down his own house. He does but also throws a flamethrower at his boss and knocks his coworkers unconscious. Montag listens to Faber in the earpiece and heads to Fabers house and eventually the whole city is after him. Faber tells him to go to the countryside to find the book-lovers that live there, so he floats in a river downstream to get there and away from the manhunt. Montag makes it to the land of the book-lovers and finds the leader named Granger. The book lovers have memorized books so that when society is prepared to accept books again, they have them. While learning about the book-lovers, bombers fly overhead and attack the city with nuclear weapons destroying everything, but Montag and the group survive. Eventually the group returns to the city to help rebuild. This is showing collaboration because not only are they rebuilding the city, but they’re working together to get society back so that books can be accepted once again. All in all, throughout all three sections of Fahrenheit 451, the main character Guy Montag shows perseverance, engagement, and
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian work of fiction that occurs in the twenty-fourth century. It follows the journey of the protagonist, Guy Montag, a fireman who starts fires instead of putting them out. Montag's world is turned upside when one night after work, he meets Clarisse McClellan. She is Montag's seventeen-year-old neighbor who has a different idea about the function of the society the two live in. Before his unexpected meeting with Clarisse, Montag is content, even happy with his life and an occupation. After parting ways with her that evening, Montag examines his life and comes to the conclusion that he is actually not happy (“Fahrenheit 451: A Christian Perspective" 1). Montag is nauseated with the disillusionment of his life and is
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.
Ray Bradbury’s creation of character Montag in Fahrenheit 451 mirrors his own personal fears, social expectations, and importance of relations. Fahrenheit 451 is split up into 3 characteristics that the author, Ray Bradbury and the main character, Guy Montag share, bringing them to show their most common interests… their love for book. They are willing to go to the fullest extinct for their passion without letting anything get in their way and taking all risks that is needed to succeed.
Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, goes through a huge change in his life. He changes from a typical fireman who follows the laws, into a person who challenges the law. Montag wakes up from being numbed and realizes that he is unhappy. Montag 's wife, "Mildred", who is addicted to Television and radio, did not care about Montag 's feelings. However; Clarisse and Faber played a big role in Montag 's life. Montag is a metaphor for a numbed society and his courage is demonstrated as he wakes up and evolves into his real human self throughout the book.
In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” Montag starts off as seemingly normal as he goes about his job, home life and inner conscious. As elements are introduced, it is clear that psychologically he has been trained to think a certain way and live his life as if it were written, or programmed. Ray Bradbury creates this world that seems to promote “sameness” in Montag’s society, and clearly discourages any deviation of one’s job or role in society. In the course of the story, Montag ‘sinner peace is interrupted when he encounters a woman named Clarisse on his way home from work. From this moment, Montag is intrigued, and his inner psychological consciousness is impacted in a way that will change the way he sees his role in society, personal, professional, and even love life. His relationship with himself, his wife Mildred, his boss Beatty, and his coworkers, and finally the most impactful Clarisse. This affects Montag, and help him see his dystopian society for what it truly is, and how he’s been serving it.
Have you ever read a book you enjoyed a lot? Well if not read Fahrenheit 451. The author of the book is Ray Bradbury. There are many characters, but one of the main, main ones is Montag. Montag is a person who changes quite a bit throughout the story. Montag goes from being conservative to being a rebel.
Montag, as the main protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a highly dynamic character.His new found want to learn, understand the world and fix the issues, he himself was blind to for years, makes him a relatable characterization for human curiosity. His society views “free thought” as a menace to the collective good despite seeing the signs that the entire system is failing. Mass suicides, endorphine powered joy rides, and murder have replaced human thought and compassion. His ability to break against the grain gifts him with both disadvantages and advantages as he faces new obstacles throughout the novel.
As Montag walks home from work that night, he meets Clarisse McClellan, his 17 year old neighbor. Montag is at once taken aback by and drawn to the precocious girl's inquisitiveness. Clarisse loves nature, doesn't watch television, and hates cars that drive fast. She questions him steadily about his perception of the world, leaving him with the query "Are you happy?" Clarisse leaves a strong impression on Montag, and he continues to reflect on their brief encounter and her very different way of viewing the world. After some time, Montag comes to terms with his answer to Clarisse's final question. He is not happy.
Throughout Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag goes through many changes and by the end of the story, he is ultimately an entirely different person. He is not responsible for all of the changes on his own however, and several characters play an essential role in shaping who he eventually becomes. At the beginning of the book, Montag encounters a teenage girls named Clarisse. Clarisse is only present for a short time, however she immediately gets Montag to think in a way he never has before. She looks at the small things in life and goes against what the current society tells her to think and do. She is different from everyone else in a very freeing way and Montag starts to be drawn into her personality. She is like a burst of fresh air for Montag
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.
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
Summary Paragraph: In Fahrenheit 451 mainly what happened was Montag met a girl named Clarisse and she changed his views on almost everything in his culture. As the book progressed we see Montag defy the norm, change the way he thought/believed. She awakes a part of him that was suppressed due to the fact that his culture is so messed up, and a lot different than the culture we have in today's society. Inside this dystopian community there is a lot of major deficiencies that existed.
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury wants Granger’s character to reinforce that society does not want to change and prepare Montag for his role in their new society by helping him understand that he cannot do everything. When Montag steps out of the river, he has changed into a new man. Later, Granger greets him in a way that signifies he has died and reborn: “Welcome back from the dead” (Bradbury 143). With his new life, he is also in need of a new mentor. While Faber’s help allowed Montag to physically escape from their society, mentally he thought that he could change society’s way of life by himself. However, he has no way of doing this until meeting Granger. Granger gives Montag’s cause a definite goal, which is to protect books rather than burning