Imagine this, a society hooked on tv, police forces that harass and punish independent thinkers. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story, lived most of his life being taught that books were dangerous.The government banned books because they did not want the people to think differently from them. The fire inside Montag, waiting to be lit, started up a flame once Clarisse came into his life. Once he started to read books he saw things differently, more colorful and interesting. Many people were afraid of what books had to offer because he government had banned them. The people themselves did not care about books as long as they remained living their happy, healthy lives. A world without knowledge and books is a world without wonder and curiosity …show more content…
He started questioning the world around him, his job, even his own happiness. That says alot about a person, if you are not happy with your own life, you are certainly doing something wrong, and Montag knew that. He started to feel an emptiness inside of him, books. Montag himself had a curiosity for books, but it was Clarisse who made that small part of Montag that wanted to read books something bigger. Montag enjoyed talking to Clarisse because she knew how to talk, she knew about the wonders of books. Once he found out about her death he was broken, he had lost the one true friend he had, and once he lost Clarisse, he lost his fear of being caught with …show more content…
The hound already knew that Montag had been reading books and that was enough for him to start working. Montag went to seek for help from an old “friend”, whom he suspected read and kept books. Montag came up with a plan to plant books at the firemen’s houses and turn them against each other. Everything seemed to be going fine until Mildred, his wife, turned him in. He was then forced to burn down his house by Captain beatty and, not only did he burn down the house, but Captain Beatty as well. He was now on the run, his planned seemed to be nothing but a lost dream now, and so with that he changed his plan. He and many others like him planned to carry a book in their minds and pass it on to the next generation and the next and the next until someone wanted to listen and bring books back into their cruel