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How Did Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

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“Well,” she said, “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane….” (Bradbury 7).
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury about a dystopian future where people are not allowed to have individual thoughts. The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job includes burning books in this censored society. Montag meets a young woman who completely changes his perspective on life. He then starts keeping books instead of burning them and becomes a rebel fleeing the ruined city to join a group of gypsy professors. As the protagonist, Montag undergoes many changes throughout the book due to many characters serving as catalysts: primarily one girl, …show more content…

Her family was not like the other families on the street. They would stay up all night laughing and talking. Clarisse’s uncle would tell her of how things used to be. They meet for a second time on a rainy night. She says she loves walking in the rain and tasting it. Montag asks her if she goes around trying everything and she replies yes sometimes even twice. She has a dandelion in her hand and asks Montag if he’s ever heard about rubbing it under his chin to see if he’s truly in love. After this encounter Montag truly feels changed. “And then, very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, for just a few moments, and opened his mouth…” (Bradbury 24). Montag is finally peeking through the threshold of an extraordinary …show more content…

This kickstarts Montag’s massive change in his life. He reads poetry to Mildred and her friends that have come to watch “the parlor”. Her friends freak out and leave. Mildred calls the fireman on her own husband. Montag’s fire chief, Beatty comes to confront Montag who has a moment of moral conflict. Guy then proceeds to set his chief on fire. “And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradbury 119). This is Montag’s final leap into changing his life

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Beatty leaves and Montag decides he will never go back to work again. He then shows Mildred a hidden stockpile of about twenty books he’s been collecting. She tries to burn them but he convinces her to trust him for forty-eight hours while he tries to read them. The two of them try to read the books, but Mildred resolves that she much prefers her tv to the boring books, and Montag decides he needs a professor to help him understand the

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And I’d never even thought of that before.” (49) Montag begins to realize how wrong what he is doing really was. Books were powerful, Clarisse was powerful. Montag’s world was widening, his vision was expanding.

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Can books and people change a person’s way of thinking? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books and houses. Throughout the book he realizes he’s not happy so he has to transform his mindset by using books and people. Guy Montag changes in the story through his increasing problems in his relationship and his perceptions in books.

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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a classic novel that challenges authority through self-discovery and growth. The main character Guy Montag is a dedicated fireman. He enjoys his job, watching pages of books become nothing more than burnt ash. He has never questioned anything before, nor has he had a reason to. That is, until he encounters three important individuals that seem to influence a change in Montag and ultimately change his world.

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Montag starts arguing with Mildred about how she is acting. She is depressed and does not even know it. Mildred thinks that the voices in the walls are her family. Montag tries to get her to see what is really happening in society. She is so unaware of her actions that Montag has top tell her, “maybe you took two pills and forgot and took to more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you” (Bradbury 17).

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4. He recalls a memory of when he was a child and he became mesmerized from a candle his mother lit during a power outage. Its implication was that it gave Montag a sense of love that he hadn’t been immune to, and it was recreated by Clarisse. 5.

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She is a peculiar character. She does not live up to the society’s standards. She enjoys doing odd activities such as staring at people, walking or watching the sunrise. In the beginning of the novel she asks Montag “ Are you happy?”

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Throughout the story, Clarisse makes Montag question his surroundings; she makes Montag rethink his marriage, society and job. Clarisse’s claims eventually cause Montag to read books and rebel. Clarisse causes Montag to question his marriage when she claims, “You’re not in love with anyone.” (19). This realization allows Montag not to be dragged in Mildred’s world of drugs and

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At the end of the novel, Montag is not in the best place in his life. He was talking to Faber and he said, “this is happening to me” (108).

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From one of his first experiences with Clarisse, Montag feels something that he realizes he never felt before in his daily life. He ponders to himself, "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?" (Bradbury 8). What Montag is pondering about is how she behaved so attentive and natural towards

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Suddenly, he sees it. The Mechanical hound, a gigantic machine that Beatty created injected him with an anesthetic. Montag destroys it with the flamethrower and continues to run with some books that were hidden in his

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Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.

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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a uniquely shocking and provocative novel about a dystopian society set in a future where reading is outlawed, thinking is considered a sin, technology is at its prime, and human interaction is scarce. Through his main protagonist, Guy Montag, Bradbury brings attention to the dangers of a controlled society, and the problems that can arise from censorship. As a fireman, it is Guy's job to destroy books, and start fires rather than put them out. After meeting a series of unusual characters, a spark is ignited in Montag and he develops a desire for knowledge and a want to protect the books. Bradbury's novel teaches its readers how too much censorship and control can lead to further damage and the repetition of history’s mistakes through the use of symbolism, imagery, and motif.

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Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. It is considered to be dystopian fiction which is used to display different social structures throughout the book. Published in 1953, this story takes place in a futuristic city in the United States of America. Books are illegal to own and anyone in possession of them will have to get them burnt. That is the job a the firefighters.

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(Bradbury 8). Montag is faced, for the first time, with having to examine his life and if he is actually happy. It destroys his “mask”, allowing him to see the problems of his life, and, more importantly, society. The new perspective “kills” a part of him, the part that was content with his perfect life (having a good,

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