Change can occur at any time. Most often it occurs when someone least expects it. Change is a splendid thing. It introduces to a new experience. As well as, it’s needed in order to grow as an individual. Secondly, in society you have to adjust to your surrounding in order to survive so changing has to happen in order for survival. It only is unneeded but it would happen no matter what so instead of fighting it might as well make the best out of it.
To start off with, in Fahrenheit 451, we see Montag the protagonist undergoes a change throughout the book. He starts off being a fireman which means he enjoys burning books in his society. Subsequently, he meets Clarisse McClellan, his new next-door neighbor. She is the opposite of his wife. She symbolizes change for him. She questions everything and makes him stop and genuinely think about the question asked. Clarisse comes into his life and alters his perspective on life. He learns that people go way too fast on driveways and that’s why the billboards are now longer, that he is not happy being a fireman and that he is in truth not in love with his wife based on a dandelion. He opened up to change and got so many beautiful experiences with Clarisse. That’s what change does. It develops new experiences.
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A quote stated, “One reason people resist to change is that they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain”(Rick Godwin). Montag lost so many things including, his wife, his job, even his home but he didn’t resist his change because he finally realized what he had been on the wrong path. At the end, he was finally content and in a place where he knew that in the next few years he would be vital in recovering the forgotten books. He had become a more prominent individual than he ever