How Does Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

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

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 deliberations whirl through his mind, Montag finally feels a sickness and discomfort. “How rarely did other people’s faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your innermost trembling thought?” (8). This illustrates that Clarisse brought a rumination out of Montag. Montag no longer is at ease with his line of work. This event represents the call to adventure for Montag as Clarisse made him ponder for the first time in a long time. The scene following portrays the crossing of the threshold into a new world 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.

Clarisse mentioned that her uncle drove slow on the highway so that he could see the things around him and he got arrested. Montag was confronting her and saying that she thought too much. From the text it says, “He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?’ “You think too many things,” said Montag, uneasily.” (Bradbury 6). Montag believes that Clarisse is very observant. He sees that she stands out from everyone else. While he follows the rules of society and does not stand out at all especially since he is a firemen. Clarisse is forced to see a psychiatrist and she makes up lies to say. She collects butterflies and hikes in the forest. She observes the forest and stands out from the rest of society. It explains in the novel, “They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won’t tell them what. I’ve got them running.” (Bradbury 20). She explains how she does not fit in with society. Montag realizes that she does not want to be like everyone else. She is peculiar compared to others and society sees this as a problem. While Montag begins to understand the true meaning of life, he realizes that the life he is living now is not the life he wants to live. The

Clarisse deeply questions Montag's behavior, and exposes his potential independence. She asks about why he chose the work that he did, followed by her interpretation of Montag. She notices that Montag listens to her, and that he does things that other firemen don't do. He respects Clarisse, and lets her speak her mind. Clarisse mentions that he is different from the others, and this is very important. He was independent, and didn't know it yet. He struck out from all of the firefighters, and was different from the rest of his fellow book burners.

Clarisse is a character that asks Montag a lot of questions, and seems to think

The book Fahrenheit 451 is about a dark society where the citizens burn books. It was published in 1953 by Ray Bradbury. In this book the main character is Guy Montag and he is a fire man but instead of putting fires out he burns them. But throughout book Montag changes from loving burning books to hating it. There are three main reasons for this change. The first is that he meets Clarisse a very odd character who asks deep questions about life. The second is when a women chooses to die with her books. And the final reason is he tries to change Mildred his wife.

Several people Montag meet in the book have a major influence on him. The influences those people have on Montag will set forth a change in Montag. Out of all the people to have an influence on Montag, Clarisse McClellan has the biggest affect on Montag. Clarisse McClellan is Montag’s seventeen year old neighbor. She is innocent, curious, and is full of life. She is different from other people in

Clarisse makes the novel more interesting by giving feedback to the other characters and clarifies more about her family. Like for example how her grandpa has to do with books. Clarisse met Montag when they “Walked in the warm cool blowing night on the silvement pavement”(Bradbury 7) that’s when they both started to get to know each other and when Clarisse started to ask questions to Montag about his work like “How long have you worked at being a fireman?” , “Do you ever read any of the books you bum?” (Bradbury 3).

Clarisse McClellan symbolizes clarity and inquisitiveness in Fahrenheit 451. Throughout the Hearth and the Salamander, her innocence, curiosity, and adoration of nature stirs Montag’s inner belief that something is very wrong. “He felt his body divide itself into hotness and coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding upon the other.”(page 21) After his conversation with Clarisse, Montag loses his sense of self. He does not know whether to continue being a typical individual in a damaged, unhappy world, or to acknowledge his inner belief that something is wrong. This is a society where suicide is common, love is nonexistent, and books are prohibited, therefore knowledge, thinking, and happiness

Montag had never analysed or stopped to think of what was going on with his life. As Clarisse starts to ask Montag questions and as they walk together, that makes their friendship closer. They build some sort of confidence and become

From the first day that Montag and Clarisse McClellan met, he knew there was something about her that was different from all of the others in their society. In Clarisse’s words, “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy.” (Bradbury 1, 3) She was unique and different from everybody else in the dystopian society. Clarisse and her family were not the typical family in the “society of the

Clarisse was different from everyone Montag had met. She questioned everything. For example, she queried, “Are you happy?” Her nature had a positive impact on Montag as it influenced him to question his surroundings. He wondered what was in the book; he started to think

Upon crossing paths with Montag, Clarisse is formally introducing herself, after Montag deducts that she must be the new neighbor in this passage. We can already ascertain that Clarisse truly is an odd duck, "seeking the best answers" for her introduction, making sure to give him the right answer. This shows how thoughtful she is, which is rare by this worlds standards. Also, what she describes to be her favorite pastimes, such as taking late night walks, and carefully viewing things such as the sunrise, show she is reflective and desires to know why things happen. Mentioning her uncle's words in the conversation also shows that she has an interest in listening to what people have to say, and that she remembers their words, unlike others, who