Sometimes life can throw different situations our way. If the situation is overwhelming, the job of the victim is to get back up and continue fighting. And when the story has a happy twist, there could be a celebration. In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character is Guy Montag. His struggle is fighting against bigger forces: government. In the end of the book he wins, but the question is: does his life become better or worse? The answer is, Montag’s life becomes chaos and a new world at the same time. A little preview to the argument is the story itself. Montag has a really luxurious life in the beginning of the book. He has a wife, a house and a nice job that he has been doing for 10 years now. He is a fire fighter that loves his job of burning books and houses of people that disobey the government’s law of “no books”. This is all good until he meets Clarisse, his neighbor. Clarisse is a seventeen year old girl that just does not fit in with the norm. She asks Montag so many questions that it all makes him wonder if all she says is actually true. If fire fighters used to put out fires instead of setting places in fire, and if there actually was a time when people were different. …show more content…
Running away from police, he crosses a river and meets a group of men. The men all have different books memorized, like a walking library. “We’re book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they’d be found” (Bradbury, 147). Montag’s life is now a life of a wonderer. The pros of this life is that he has freedom, no one can send an alarm on him, the hound can’t find him, and now he has actual friends. The cons of this situation, however, are that he is an enemy of state, he has no living conditions, no family, and