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Fahrenheit 451 Guy Mantag Essay

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The Characters and My Opinion Of Them Guy Mantag is a the main character of this book. He is also a fireman. This type of firemen don’t stop fires, they technically start them. Guy Mantag’s job is to burn “useless” books. He later finds out closer to the end of the book that books are useful and that his squad should not burn them. So he realizes what he is doing is wrong. He hides the book he finds to preserve them. Having books are against the law, so he was risking his life. My opinion of Mantag is that he was really brave to hide books. He follows his instincts and he wants to do the right thing even though it is hard. Mantag had to sacrifice a lot of things to save books. I think he was really smart and brave when he was running away from …show more content…

He personally doesn’t like it. There are mechanical hounds (dogs) to track people down, helicopters, and cars in Fahrenheit 451. Guy was really scared of the hound that stays at the firehouse. The hounds have six legs and they are metal monsters to criminals. In the story, mantag got a shot injected into his leg from a Hound. It made his leg numb and it slowed him down when he was running from the police. The technology in Fahrenheit 451 is super dangerous and the people of the society should be scared of it like Mantag. The technology is so complex it could take over the nations of …show more content…

I thought in some parts it was quite disturbing. I also thought in the book was dark and mysterious. I like adventure and inspiring books better. I like the part when Guy Mantag explained his job and the tools he used to burn buildings and books. I didn't really understand that there was a job to set things on fire, instead of stopping them. I personally think it’s pointless unless you don’t want to know what books really have inside the pages. It’s like throwing perfect knowledge away. I agree with Mantag that the hound who injected him with a shot was scary. If I lived in that time era, I would not go outside where I am exposed to them@ Reading this book was a great opportunity to read a different type of

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