She really opens Montags eyes to what lay right in front of him. The most valuable idea in the book is that knowledge is power, the more Montag learned the more power he had. Starting the day he met Clarisse, Montag was hungry for knowledge, and he gets his first taste of it when he steals a book from a house they are burning. He tucks it under his arm and when he gets home he absorbs
Clarisse McClellan was a vital part of the development of the story and Montag’s transition into the person he becomes. Clarisse helps to trigger the transformation of Montag’s character from a book burning, law abiding, brainwashed citizen into a person who thinks outside of the box and questions the norm that everyone follows. From the first moment we see Clarisse we can all assume she is different;she does not conform to the culture of the people around her and in her community. The first that we see of Clarisse in the novel is that Clarisse is walking alone outside on the streets at night. What she is doing is very unusual in that society because most people stay in and sleep or watch TV or anything besides go out and have alone time.
Being unique is better than being like anyone. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows how Montag and the other characters are unique or the same as everyone else. While Montag changes throughout the book, some stay stuck in the same lifestyle. They are stuck in a society where the good is thought of as a wrong. Bradbury uses characterization to portray the individuality and sameness of the characters.
In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the character of Clarisse McClellan represents a strong contrast to the societal norms of the dystopian society in which she lives. Clarisse's desires are in direct conflict with the values of the society in which she lives, as she seeks knowledge and meaningful human connections, while the government seeks to suppress individuality and free-thinking. In this essay, we will explore the character of Clarisse and how her desires conflict with the norms of the society in Fahrenheit 451. Clarisse is introduced early on in the novel as a young woman who is very different from the other characters we meet.
Clarisse encourages Montag to take a closer look at his life and re-evaluate his values, which ultimately leads to his eventual rebellion against the
One effect Clarisse has on Montag is that he changes the way he thinks about his career. Montag would go to work and would be told what to do and he did not give it a second thought. But one day when Montag was on a walk he meets Clarisse, and she asks him multiple questions that he struggles to answer. Clarisse tells Montag that she heard that firemen use to put out fire
Clarisse wanted to change the way everyone was living and she tries to question Montag so he can realize how wrong their living conditions are. Montag is walking home from work, feeling good about himself, when he comes across
It is seen here Montag was following Clarisse’s footsteps and that throughout this novel he was trying to follow what Clarisse stood for. This is accomplished when Montag begins reading and vacates his job. Looking back, it can be seen Montag had an appreciation for Clarisse like a mentor. Clarisse influenced Montag to read books and therefore eventually act
From one of his first experiences with Clarisse, Montag feels something that he realizes he never felt before in his daily life. He ponders to himself, "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?" (Bradbury 8). What Montag is pondering about is how she behaved so attentive and natural towards
He shares no personal information and directly avoids having any meaningful interaction with her. Contrastingly, Montag is very genuine towards Clarisse. She encourages him to question his world and everything he thinks he knows. Throughout many of their conversations, Montag has to, “pause and remember if he had previously known this, [which] made him quite irritable" her curiosity intrigues him and this is what begins his journey. Throughout the rest of the novel, Montag takes everything with a grain of salt and is skeptical of what he is told he should
Montag is asked questions and told answers too when he talks to Clarisse and Clarise asks him if he is happy, causing a reaction from him. More information on the statements above are located in the paragraphs below. Clarisse is more thoughtful about things than you see other characters being in the story. She in turn makes Montag wonder more about these things which change him and start to create the character we see at the end of the book.
One question that has fascinated me right from the point I first read it is the question Clarisse asks Guy Montag in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, "Are you happy?" Montag spent days mulling over the question, only for the reader to never be given a real answer from him. Much like the main character of the story, I struggle to answer this question as well. It is a simple question with no simple answer, mainly because this one question forces the person being asked to answer even more questions for his or her self. If yes, why?
Everybody has a point in life where someone reminds them of something they have long forgotten and suddenly everything make sense. In the dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury titled Fahrenheit 451, the curious, sweet girl of the name Clarisse pops the bubble that Montag lives in. Bradbury includes Clarisse in the story to act as an eye opener for Montag. She introduces him to a past where firemen put out fires instead of starting them. Clarisse remains immune to the chatter of television and instead gazes through a kaleidoscope of colors that filters out the dull views of the government.
Montag eventually reaches a point where he can’t stand his normal life anymore. Clarisse, intentionally or not, has shocked Montag back into his childlike curiosity. All he wants to do is learn, something he’s never felt so attached to before. This is how Montag becomes comfortable enough with his wonder to start reading books. Within just a few moments of interaction with her, Clarisse was able to bring back the curiosity in Montag’s
I have chosen the Aztec, Maya, and Inca socities to disscus in my essay. When talking about these three remarkable civilazitions. These strengths stand out in the Maya civilation, as the reading from week three notes “The Maya developed a highly complex series of calendars that were interlinked with each other”. The Inca civilization used what the readings from week four note as “the quipu, a sophisticated system using knots on strings” the quipu was a basic form of doing math in an early civilization. The Aztecs also invented their own form of a calendar as the week four reading also noted “this cosmic progression may have been represented in the mysterious Sun Stone of the Aztecs”.
