How Does Montag Use Clarise In Fahrenheit 451

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.

The first page of “The Heart and the Salamander” introduces the main character, Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman, who enjoys his job and feels a great pleasure in watching things burn. Firemen’s job is not only to burn books, but the house with the books in it. Everything changes when he meets Clarisse McClellan, his seventeen year old neighbor, on his way home. She starts questioning Montag about his job and she tells him that the fireman used to be the one fighting the fire, not the trigger for the fire. Clarisse presents to Montag a whole new vision about life and it is different of what he used to know. She asks him if he is happy, which makes him angry but makes him think about it. When he gets home, he finds by his wife’s bed an empty bottle of sleeping pills and call the hospital.

I feel Clarisse is introduced as innocence in its purest form a child full of questions. She is a bright light in Guy Montag’s dark life. She is introduced as having a “slender milk white face with gentle hunger and tireless curiosity”. Bradbury goes further and details the color of her dress as it being white as well as the “white stir of her face turning as she almost walks into Montag on the pavement”. Later, in the text Bradbury describes Clarisse’s face as being as “bright as snow in the moonlight”. White is associated with innocence and purity which what Clarisse is in the Guy Montag’s world.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is about a society where books aren’t allowed because the government thinks they will make the people smarter. The fireman in this society are starting the fires instead of turning them off,they burn the people in the houses because they have books. Guy Montag, a fireman, has his views changed in this society by a young girl named Clarisse. He realizes that what he is doing is wrong and he wants to change it. He runs away from the government and runs into other men who also want to change the government.

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag is a fireman that’s unlike our own firemen. Montag is usually covered in the smell of Kerosene. After a while Montag discovers the love of books, which gets him into danger.

Her feet hurt from the stones, twigs, and hard ground in the woods. All she wanted to do was find The Traveling Library and to be apart of a bigger picture. She read about them once, not that many people read anymore, but she knew that those were the people she belonged with. Most importantly, Clarisse wanted to find Montag. Possibly for reasons that were bigger than just flipping a page in a book, or talking about an author. She kept following the river and began to read some of her books to take her mind off of the pain in her feet. After a few hours, she heard the Hound and knew that if she followed the Hound, she would find Montag. She followed the Hound for many miles, until it

Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 realizes that the life he lives in is not the life he desires. "I'm going to do something," said Montag. "I don't even know what yet, but I'm going to do something big" (Ray Bradbury 65). At this point Montag has decided that he is going to change his life, even if the odds are against him. Montag lives in a society where controversy is extremely frowned upon, so that is why books are not allowed to exist.

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.

Guy Montag is a fireman who is greatly influenced in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451. The job of a fireman in this futuristic society is to burn down houses with books in them. Montag has always enjoyed his job, that is until Clarisse McClellan comes along. Clarisse is seventeen and crazy. At least, this is what her uncle, whom she gets many of her ideas about the world from, describes her as. Clarisse and Montag befriend each other quickly, and Clarisse's impact on Montag is enormous. Clarisse comes into Montag's life, and immediately begins to question his relationship with his wife, his career, and his happiness. Also, Clarisse shows Montag how to appreciate the simple things in life. She teaches him to care about other people and

Clarisse tells Montag that sometimes she takes the time to “just sit and think” about life and the world around her (23). Unlike most people, Clarisse choses to think and question certain things in life instead of the average member of their society who choses

Clarisse is used to show the raw violence of the state when she says “I’m afraid of the children my own age. They kill each other” (30). We as the reader learn a new aspect of the popular maxim where life is no longer important and can be easily thrown away. We start to notice Clarisse’s true fascination with the human race when she says “sometimes I ride the subway just to watch them.” we get the sense that she feels like an outsider looking in multiple times throughout part one(30). In a sea of people who are constantly moving Clarisse stands out as a person who stops and thinks. ALthough we see her as a visionary her peers see

statement by Clarisse makes Montag think of a time when he was a child during

All in all, Clarisse and Mildred differ in their influences on Montag as Clarisse represents the beacon of hope for individuality in their society, whereas Mildred represents the status quo of conformity. Clarisse provides Montag with the desire to question and search for the true meaning of this life, as her true happiness shows Montag what he can provide to the other members of society. This fuels his desire to stop being a fireman, read books, and explore the reality of life they provide. Mildred constantly angers Montag with her actions and her lack of empathy, which causes him to have an even greater desire to change the way people live so they don’t become even more consumed by insensitivity like Millie and the others have. As well, the extremities of ideologies Clarisse and Mildred represent similarly impact Montag, as it creates tension or opposing forces that he is trying to battle against. Mildred represents the past unhappy life he is attempting to get rid of whereas Clarisse represents the quest for happiness and truth. However, every time, Montag makes a progression in changing the society, Millie as a symbol of her society, drags him back down. However, although both women influence Montag in different ways, in the end they both must suffer so he can complete his journey.

One night, Montag gets into a heated debate with Mildred on the importance of books. Done with the quarrel: “‘Let me alone,’ said Mildred. ‘I didn’t do anything.’

Instead of spending their days shut indoors, these people go for walks and read. Clarisse loves to talk to people. She also enjoys nature and is extremely curious. Clarisse stays up late conversing and laughing with her family. During the day. she spends time outdoors. The average person in the book would never think of these activities as fun. Her conversation with Guy Montag shows how the common man or woman does not take the time to notice things around them. “ ‘Bet I know something else you don’t know. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.’ He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.” (Bradbury 16) At this point in time, Montag was a conformist and, like his peers, does not want to explore or