Throughout this book we can see people who live their lives without asking themselves if they are doing the right thing, or why am I doing this, or what is my life goal. Some characters may conclude that they want to spend their entire lives with their TV. Others to have fun. Montag had been one of these people for many years. When he met Clarisse he slowly began surface from his shell, and transform into a true
Now because of this his relationship with Clarisse is stronger. He starts to go back to work and acquire more and more books. Montag figures out that what he has been doing is going come back to bite him … and it does. ‘You’ll be fine. This is a special case… ‘Here we are!’
Montag and Beatty have many similarities and differences. One similarity is their job, they are both firemen, but they are weird firemen they didn’t put out fires they started them at peoples houses if they had books. A difference is their attitude, at the beginning Montag was a “normal” firemen because Montag states, “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). This shows his lack of feelings towards anything. But when Montag met Clarisse he started to get curious about books and what the society is like at a different point of view.
He has a profoundly different relationship with his companions when he realizes the flaws in his population as a whole. Despite Montag's quest for knowledge and individuality, they continue to follow the oppressive rules. One of the variables that added to his estrangement from the gathering that he once had a place with was the way that they couldn't understand or acknowledge his disobedience. Montag's change eventually adjusts his gatherings since he presently looks for associations with individuals who share his recently discovered values. One outline of this is the means by which Montag's association with Boss Beatty, another fire fighter, changes when he starts to investigate the guidelines of society.
The world can get by just fine without them, without Clarisse, without anyone who decides to think differently. He wanted Beatty to feel the same thing Clarisse felt when she died. Just like Jan Zabinski did during World War II. Jan would poison the meat that was going to Nazi soldiers as a part of the rebellion to make them feel the same way the Nazi’s did. Montag wanted Beatty to feel remorse for Clarisse.
He's trying to make the football team as quarterback and is motivated to do good in his schoolwork. He is also dealing with the recent loss of his mother and tries to be the best son he can to his dad. However, Jerry is not very impressed with his dad’s way of life. He worries about ending up like his dad and always doing the same old thing every day.
Montag, like most people in his society, operates under the assumption that they are happy. Their lives are filled with mindless entertainment, the constant need for thrill seeking, and a disregard for critical thinking. Clarisse's question forces him to pause and genuinely consider his emotional state. Ultimately, Clarisse's question becomes the catalyst for Montag's transformation. It sets him on a path of self-discovery and rebellion.
Clarisse encourages Montag to take a closer look at his life and re-evaluate his values, which ultimately leads to his eventual rebellion against the
When his mother goes to the big beach and leaves him in the bay, which he calls his own beach. Jerry and his mother’s relationship is confusing because she wants him to stay with him but yet again she wants him to go explore without her. This makes it complicated for Jerry to go through
Montag notices that people like Beatty are afraid of Clarisse because free thinkers threaten the controlled order of the government. After being exposed to Clarisse’s genuine nature, he struggles to understand why her qualities are being seen as
“you’re not like the others...when I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night… the others would never do that… that’s why I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow” (Pg 21) Clarisse, 17 years old and crazy really makes Montage question who he is as a person. If it weren’t for her, he might not ever have had the thought to go against the society to do what’s right. This relates to the theme because society is trying to change everyone to be the same but because of Clarisse, Montag realizes questions who he is as a person and learns right vs wrong which helps him to stand up against the bad things that society is doing and do the right thing.
When Montag was with Clarisse it would be different because she would help Montag view things from a different perspective. They become close friends and their friendship goes beyond that. He tells Clarisse about him being a firemen and how he enjoys what he does. She tells him what she thinks about him being a firemen and about him burning books. Until one day he realizes that everything
Montag is asked questions and told answers too when he talks to Clarisse and Clarise asks him if he is happy, causing a reaction from him. More information on the statements above are located in the paragraphs below. Clarisse is more thoughtful about things than you see other characters being in the story. She in turn makes Montag wonder more about these things which change him and start to create the character we see at the end of the book.
After reading The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill, I was able to see how the Jews have truly influenced society today. From the progression of agricultural discoveries to the notion of human freedom, I felt that every idea made an impact one way or another. Of the many gifts that the Jews’ have shared, the one most meaningful to me is the concept of how it is our choice to decide whether or not we are going to allow ourselves to become consumed by the various sufferings in life. We should let these hardships “refine us...and to shape us into a fitting instrument for [God’s] revelation, as he did Moshe.” People should move forward, instead of being stuck in the past.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” Said and written in one of Alice Walker’s novels, Possessing the Secret of Joy. The novel encompasses the impact of having culturally controlled gender roles and brings awareness to how women feel powerless in their society. Her quote shows how quickly ignorance in humanity stunts the growth of empowered people. Moreover, this quote can represent the relationship between power and women, which, consequently, is discussed in the documentary, Miss Representation. Alice Walker’s wise words appear in the first shot of this film.
