Montag's Mental Change In Fahrenheit 451

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.

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.

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.

He was once emotionless man, a person who rarely thinks about his surroundings evolving into a agog man eager to know about the world around him. Finally, evolving into a courageous man. This man is Guy Montag from the book Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a fireman, but not one’s typical fireman, his job is to burn books. Throughout the book, the main character Montag undergoes a transformation from being disengaged, to curious, to brave. Bradbury uses this to demonstrate that everything can change.

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.

(Bradbury 122). Later on in the book when Montag is on the run he encounters people going over 90 miles per hour, they purposefully try to run him over, in part because of his rebellion against society and also for fun. Anyone in the community is willing to kill someone who doesn’t follow the community’s rules. Throughout part two of Fahrenheit 451 Montag shows real change from his book burning self, he begins to question if books are truly bad, something he had only dabbled in before.

Seeing the old lady burn was the beginning of the changing for Montag. What I mean by that is that Montag first started to change after he witnessed the old lady burn because of her books. "You can't have my books." (the old lady, page 35.) "you can stop

Montag is changed by a character named Clarisse she changes him because of her unique personality. Clarisse changes Montag because she shows him how the world needs to slow down and how people need to just examine things slowly. Montag and Clarisse are talking and Clarisse says people need to slow down and examine things more carefully. “ Sometimes I think that drivers do not know what grass is or flowers because the do not see them slowly”(pg7). This

Montag has grown to be a smarter and a more thoughtful person. He used to be like everyone else. Unaware, dumbed down, dull, and not being able to think to the best of his ability. The government likes to keep it that way. They allow for no progressive and interesting thoughts from the citizens. That all changed when Montag met Clarisse. The odd one out that made him understand what he could really be capable of and what books could be for humanity. He started going to work, noticing what was really happening. In other words, he changed for the better. As he continues to act more “strange” then the rest of his society, they start to see him as weird and confusing. Montag goes home and yells at Mildred and her friends. “Maybe the books can get

Montag is a character that changes from being conformed to unconformed. He used to be a fireman and even thought, “It was a pleasure to burn” (p1). Montag began the novel being conformed, like the rest of the world.. He thought the same, acted the same, and looked the same. Montag, being like everyone else, was oblivious to everything that was happening in

Montag changes his beliefs and actions in the beginning to the end because of the influences from the people around him. The character that Montag was in the beginning; he took pride in his work, but he didn’t know what caused him to feel empty. “He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel a fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark.”

In Fahrenheit 451 the author expresses the idea that one needs to take risks in order to change their life. For example in page 37 it says “montag’s hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest”. Montag had never done that before and taking the book was the first step to his journey, to changing his life and finding out what really is in those books. This action caused montag to change and shift towards a different direction, from the moment he took it, to the moment he read it changed his character, before that he was somebody different. And it didn't stop there montag didn't want to return the book after beatty had found out that he took it. For example in page 77 it says “There's only one thing to do. Sometime before tonight when i give the book to beatty, i've got to have a duplicate made”. Montag wasn’t giving up that easily, but trying to duplicate the book was a HUGE risk he was willing to make.

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

Although, Montag does change. He changes in several ways the first way is he meets someone. He meets Clarisse. Clarisse care about more stuff than Montag and actually has a good influence on Montag. She helps him understand more about life and what it is all about. Also, Montag starts to read a book for the first time