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Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian world where books are prohibited. Montag, the main character is a firefighter uhe lives with his wife Mildred and his job is to go to wherever books are found and burn them. In the story Montag met a girl named Clarisse. She was a girl that questioned everything. She wondered why people were so “weird” in that world. Clarisse got Montag to think about why they burn books. Montag started doubting himself and his life. He realized that he wasn’t happy, he had everything to be happy but he wasn’t happy. With time he started collecting books and eventually began reading them. He was scared he would get caught with books by his boss Beatty, but he eventually did. Beatty pulled the book …show more content…

In the story Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books if found in houses. Montag felt pleasure to burn books. He never had read a book so he didn’t know what he was missing out on. Montag is walking home from work one day and he bumps into a young lady named Clarisse. Clarisse is a “weird” girl who questions everything in this society. “Do you ever read any t=of the books you burn? He laughed “That's against the law” pg. 12. Clarisse made Montag realize why is he burning books? He realizes that books tell stories and knowledge. In conclusion Montag has been hiding books and begins to read …show more content…

He realized that books carry knowledge and ideas. He began to feel scared and began to panick. He felt like a fugitive because he carried illegal information and it had to be kept in a secret. The firefighters had an alarm gone off but it was in Montag’s house. At the fire Montag had a big fight with his boss Beatty because he had found out the Montag had books in his possession. Montag burned his boss Beatty and the other firefighters. “You must remember burn them or they’ll burn you, he thought. Right now it's as simple that” pg 125. After burning his boss and coworkers Montag goes on the run and defends his books.he had to burn the people or else himself and the books were going to get burned. Montag was being chased by the police but he gets away in the river. Later that same night he met up with some “hobos” who in reality are educators and philosophers. He became part of the group and in the group everyone needed to become a

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He later meets a girl named clarisse who changed his perspective about society and the way it was run. As time goes on Montag struggles with his job as a fireman, burning books instead of fighting fires. He wants to learn more about books to know what he is missing. He steals dozens of books to learn more of what’s in them and later befriends a retired college professor who helps him go against society. Through

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In addition, another person who changed Montags feelings towards his society was Captain Beatty. Montag's fire captain, Beatty, pushed Montag too far and Montag in turn set him on fire. When Montag stole a book and started reading, Beatty, became suspicious and started making fun of books and poetry. Then when Montag was forced to burn his own books and Beatty was hitting and yelling at him, Montag snapped and set him on fire. Beatty also was a character in the book who Montag changed greatly from.

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To begin, At first montag is the average civilian living a normal life. He does what he needs to do to survive, all the while he knows something is missing. Before he met the life changing character Clarisse, he was conformed to society just like everyone else. However, Clarisse was the spark that grew the fire of knowledge in his heart. Then when he seen a woman rather be burned alive then to live without books the spark only grew.

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(MIP) This meme relates to an important part of the book, it is the fact that Montag’s feelings on society change, and he is against the society. (SIP-A) The society is against books and will burn them and the possibly the person containing them if they are found. (STEWE-1) This is when Montag says that he took burning books to a whole new level, “‘We burned a thousand books.

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Fahrenheit 451: Seek More than What The Eyes Allow Imagine living in a world, where ignorance triumphed knowledge. A society where thinking was prohibited, and was seen to be the root to unhappiness, because it was deemed to be the source of ideas that could go against the concept of conformity. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates a dystopian society where knowledge was not fundamental and books were seen to be a threat to their community. In the book, Guy Montag, a fireman who seems to be satisfied with his current life, and the job of burning books.

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In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.

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Over time, Montag started to have a large amount of books he had taken. He was stashing them in his house. Montag hid the books in the most nonchalant places, where nobody would expect the books to be. He became obsessed with obsessed with reading. Which made him realize that people are missing out on something so important, and valuable knowledge wise.

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Guy Montag loved his job. With the number 451 on his black helmet, and a pheonix across his chest, he found a great pleasure in burning. Guy was a fireman-not someone who puts out fires, but someone who starts them. Guy Montag started fires for a living, and believed he was doing something good for his society . This was all until he met Clarisse McClellan, his mysterious and abnormal neighbor, he ran into while walking home from the fire station.

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Montags first awakening to realizing how influential books can be is when he is burning a house and the woman inside stays with the books while the house is being burnt. This peaks Montag's curiosity making him wonder why someone would ever do that. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing" (Bradbury 48). This is where Montag begins to realize that books can hold significance and knowledge, as well as inspiring people to act on their beliefs.

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As Montag and Clarisse’s relationship advanced, he gained more access to literature works. Hence, he decided to commit an action that might not be respected by his boss or community. He stole a book from the old lady’s house. He witnesses the lady burn herself for books and can’t wrap his head around this idea. Montag questions things around him.

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Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.

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Montag lives with his wife, Mildred, and works as a fireman who burns books along with the houses that they belong to. For Montag, burning books was a pleasure and he convinces himself that he loves his job. But Montag’s character developed more as the story continued on. Events that caused a change in Montag’s personality was when he first talked with Clarisse, when he saw Mildred attempting suicide, when he stole a book while burning a house, when Montag goes to see Faber, and when Montag sees a woman kill herself along with her books.

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Montag wants to what he is missing in his life and he come to conclusion that is books. He wants to read to understand why he is lonely or unhappy. Beatty terrorizing Montag forces him to hide 20 books in his house. Montag has been collecting books for long time but never had time to understand them. Faber made Montag realize he has to understand there are some people in the society that might know he has books.

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Montag uses books as a distraction to escape the reality of his personal problems. He falls into their fictitious plots and characters, temporarily suspending his own intellectual activity. Eventually, the novels

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The world of Fahrenheit 451 is one without books. This difference in society has lead to a lack in personal connections and curiosity. Although most children of the society have fallen into this trap as well, Clarisse has not. “I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I have lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.”

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