Montag Burns His Home

Albert Camus once said, “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” This is clearly represented in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Rebelling is usually used as a negative term, but in certain situations, it can be acceptable to rebel. The main character in the book, Montag, rebelled against the society in the book, showing that it is acceptable to rebel when one feels that they are being deceived. Rebellion allows the character to find out the truths of the world and society, to not live in fear, and to escape being manipulated.

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

Montag's attempts to rectify the damage his distorted society has cast upon humanity parallels with the prisoner’s return to the cave, where his newfound beliefs are rejected out of fear. Despite Montag's intentions, the public only attacks him, berates him and labels him a criminal for acting out and rebelling against the society’s wishes. Montag’s attempts to “sear all their faces and wake them up” only result in failure (Bradbury 128), as after all, the public is too afraid. Any threat to the fragile peace the society holds is automatically fought against. The members themselves protect the status quo by isolating outsiders who think differently, as Clarisse explains to Montag, “The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten

Being a fireman, Montag has never felt guilty about his work when victims scream or cry but this woman had not screamed nor cried. In fact, she was eerily quiet as these men stormed her house and prepared her precious books to be burned to ash. Montag tries to ease his troubled mind by convincing himself that he’s only hurting books, mindless, emotionless objects, he’s not hurting people. However, this woman’s silence feels more accusing than the screaming and

Guy Montag changes as a character throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Montag is a fireman, and that is the most important job in his society. Where Montag lives, everything is really the same, and no one questions anything. They just go along with society. In that society you aren't allowed to have books, and if they are found in your house, firemen come and burn your house down. There are three things in which causes Montag to change. The three things that cause him to change are him seeing the old lady burn, Clarisse, and jumping into the river. Montag changes as a character throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451.

The Change Of Montag Going against society can have a positive or negative impact on your life. This theme is seen in Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, which is a science fiction novel that takes place in an unnamed American city in 2053. In this novel, Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living. He experiences changes that affects what he thinks about his job and who he is as a person. In this text he meets a girl clarisse who changes what he thinks about himself.

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.

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

1. There are many characters in the novel, Fahrenheit 451 who had a massive impact and influence on the main character, Guy Montag, and caused him to change in many ways. One character who greatly influenced Montag and aided in his change of personality and beliefs was his neighbor Clarisse, a bright teenage girl who had a curious nature unlike any person Montag had met before. When compared to other children her age, Clarisse was considered an outcast and strange but her optimism, love for the many beautiful things on earth, and the values taught to her by her family members helped to inspire Montag to begin exploring nature and the earth, and to really begin thinking and questioning the integrity of his job as a fireman. Another character that helped influence Guy Montag was Professor Faber. Faber, an English teacher who almost did not go through with helping Montag due to his cowardice, ended up greatly helping Montag through the treacherous future events that he would experience. One of the most beneficial and influential things that Faber did to help Montag was influencing Montag's words by guiding him through the the questions asked by the sly Captain Beatty in the firehouse.

What would happen if society sped up so much that murders were over looked, billboards had to be miles long to be noticed and knowledge was forbidden? Ray Bradbury examines these events these events in the novel Fahrenheit 451 as a man describes the life of a man that starts to realize that the government is hiding things from the public. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag starts to see that he is not loving life, he is just going on day by day with no real family or friends that actually cares about him. In the novel Mildred and Montag are constantly fighting because Mildred wants all the new technology while Montag is acting like a robot going to work every day. Captain Beatty is in charge of the firehouse where Montag works and instead of saving houses from fires they actually burn down houses, if they have books in the houses.

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.

In the book "Fahrenheit 451" Montag changes from a firefighter that burns books and houses down into a caring man the cares about people and books.

In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is the main character. Ray Bradbury, author of the book,

Mildred call Beatty and turned in Montag for having the books. When they get to the house Beatty makes Montag burn his house down he does, but he feels relief that the walls that separated Montag from his wife are finally gone. ‘"We never burned right..."’ (Bradbury 78-79). After he says that he burns Beatty to a crisp. That made Montag feel good that he burned his house down but lie to himself that Beatty wanted to die.

As Montag is making the transition into a rebel, Bradbury changes the way he describes him. Montag starts to read the books he has hidden and get upset with Millie when she talks about her “family”. Montag also begins to listen to the rain and question the wars his society is involved in, things he never would have done before.