Guy Montag In Farheit 451

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. She opened his eyes into the world he was blindly living in, and made him more aware about his “perfect society”. Guy Montag was a fireman for ten years of his life. For these ten years, he never once doubted his government. He just went with the flow and didn’t question a thing. Guy would

When they arrived, they found the guilty woman, Mrs. Blake, who did have books in her possession. After telling her numerous times to get out of the house, she still stayed inside with the books. So, they ignited the house along with the woman. Usually, Montag is very satisfied with burning and loves setting fires. Yet, after that experience, his mind was transformed. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there”(Bradbury 51). This greatly demonstrates how Montag’s realization about books started. The other firemen didn’t feel bad about that event, or say anything afterward. Montag seemed to be the only one affected by the incident. It impacted him so much, that he stole a book from the crime

One day, Montag was sitting on a park bench, next to a professor named Faber. Faber was a big believer in books, and wasn’t afraid to die for them. He thought, without books, everyone would talk the same, sound the same, and be the same. Even after knowing Montag was a fireman, he still recited poetry in front of him, twice. Being even more bold, he gave Guy his contact information, in case he wanted to do something about it. Montag knew he was the right person to go to find out more information about the censorship of books, and why the world is the way it is. Arriving at Faber’s home, Montag met his acquaintance for a second time. After some discussion, he explained to Montag why books are censored and burned. “They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless”(Bradbury 83). After Montag finally understood why reading books was banned, he knew it wasn’t right, so he devised a plan with Faber. Using a small green bullet to communicate with the professor, Guy would put books in the homes of firemen to get them arrested. Then, there would be no one to enforce the law against books and reading. At this point, Montag wasn’t naive anymore. He comprehended the situation, and knew what he had to do. However, this doesn’t mean that his plan necessarily worked. After getting caught by his