Rylie Artuyo Mrs. McKinney Honors 10 17 February 2023 Montag’s Character Development in Fahrenheit 451 Fire is a beautiful thing. It can burn and destroy everything it touches, or it can bring warmth and comfort to everything it doesn’t. For the character Montag in Fahrenheit 451, it did both. It represented his change in character throughout the whole book. The characters Clarisse, Faber, and Granger help Montag change from being depressed and sucked into his society to happy and his own individual self throughout the book. The first person to aid Montag’s character development throughout the book was Clarisse. Clarisse was a 17- year-old girl who liked to be outside and talked a lot which was unusual for Monag’s society. When Montag walked …show more content…
Montag sought help from Faber because he was an older man who used to be an English professor, so he knows a lot about books and literature. Before, Montag thought that the physical book itself was magic but that wasn’t true. Faber explained to him that, “the magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment” (79). In other words, it’s not the physical book itself that holds magic and danger to Montag’s society, but the information and knowledge in it that does. Faber also taught Montag that there are three things necessary to do when reading a book, “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two” (81). These three things are what Faber factored as most important and it is also what Montag’s society lacked. No one obtained good information, no one took time to actually think about it, and no one acted upon any situation using their knowledge from one and two. When it came to the use of knowledge, Faber was the most helpful to Montag and continued to help him even when it put himself at