“Its heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt” (William J. Clinton). Propaganda forces people to remain in an unfulfilling life that does not value the importance of knowledge. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag is a fireman who never finishes his journey home to happiness. Montag runs from conflicts instead of facing them, but he is still a hero. Montag is happy with his life but soon feels different about himself and the dystopian society he lives in, which does not provide him the knowledge he seeks. In the beginning of the adventure Guy Montag has traits that change through meeting different mentors. Clarisse is the first mentor he meets, and she helps him wake …show more content…
Faber is a man Montag met in the Green Park a year ago, and he used to be a language arts teacher. Faber helps Montag see. “My wife’s dying. A friend of mine already dead. Someone who may have been a friend was burnt less than twenty-four hours ago. You’re the only one I knew might help me. To see. To see…?” (77). This quote shows Fabor is a person to look up to, for hope and knowledge. Montag went to Fabor for help first, instead of someone else, or even giving up on reading. Montag thinks Fabor will be able to help him understand the books. If Montag understands the books he will be able to understand better of what is going on in his society in the past, present, and future. This will help Montag change by seeing what really goes on in his society on a day to day basis. Fabor helps Montag see by teaching him about books. “Seeing” does not mean how to look at the books but how to see the books and the knowledge in them. Faber shows Montag the books can teach him lots of things, if Faber can teach Montag how to use the books to learn about things that went on, are going on, and might go on. Faber impacts on Montag are that he knows how to understand the books and learn what is going on in the books. In addition Faber again helps Montag change when he comes to his house with the bible; Montag wants to memorize the bible and bring the book to Faber because he feels guilty about all the books he has burned. So to make it up he will help preserve the last of the books. “We have everything to be be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something is missing. I looked around. I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help” (78). Montag is using the books as a way to get help from Fabor. If Faber agrees to take the books and learn from them so than he will teach Montag to understand them. The books help let a way into what’s going