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Who Is Montag In Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag risked his life by reading books, planting books, and showing his books. In that day and age, book are illegal, they are bad. If you own any, you and your house with your books will be burned. Risk is a theme in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Guy Montag, is a fireman. A fireman’s job is to burn books, which is ironic because the firemen are the people starting the firings, not putting them out. Although Montag is a fireman, he hides books because that is something he truly enjoys, even though he is risking his life and his wife's life. In his house, he hides books behind the air conditioning vent, deep inside the wall. Montag has hidden these books from everyone, even his wife, Mildred Montag. “Then he reached …show more content…

Now he is showing the books to Mildred and her friends who are not pleased with their lives. “Then he began to read in a low, stumbling voice that grew firmer as he progressed from line to line, and his voice went out across the desert into whiteness, and around the three sitting women there in the great hot emptiness” (page 99). Since Montag has now exposed his books, and is now reading his books to Mildred, and her friends, he could be in serious danger. They could call an alarm on him, or they could be so pleased that they were able to hear literature for the first time. Mrs. Phelps, has no children and has many divorces. Her third husband, has just been sent off to war, and she acts oblivious about it. When she hears the poem, she just lets her emotion out. Mrs. Bowles, had a very different reaction. She was furious at Montag, she found ways to connect poetry with all sorts of bad things. “I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness, and all that mush” (page 101). Mrs. Bowles, has two children that don’t like her. She sends them to school as much as she can, and puts them in the parlor for any other times she has to be with them. She also has three husbands, one being divorced, one being killed in a car accident, and one committed suicide. Their reactions makes Montag nervous, because they could call an alarm on him, and then his

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