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Role Of Montag In Fahrenheit 451

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Guy Montag- fireman, burns books in a futuristic city in America. Firemen start fires instead of extinguishing them. People do not read books. People do not enjoy nature. People do not spend time by themselves or think independently. Montag sees seventeen-year-old girl Clarisse McClellan. She is a gentle girl who opens Montag's eyes to the emptiness of his life. Montag experiences a few disturbing events. His wife, Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. This shows that she may have been unhappy with the blandness of her own life. After his response to the alarm of and old lady, he finds her willing to kill herself with her books. This shows that not everyone wishes to love in such a bland world without literature. …show more content…

Montag’s pessimistic attitude with his life increases due to his friendship with her. Montag doesn't show up for work, his fire chief, Beatty shows up at his house. He explains why books were outlawed in the first place and about how every book eventually looked the same. The continual political-correcting of literature lead to everything being outlawed. Montag goes to the fire station and hands over one of his books to Beatty. He confuses Montag by badgering him with contradictory quotations from classic literature. He shows these contradictions to show that literature is dark and extremely complex, and that it deserves to be destroyed all together. Then, the fire alarm sounds, and they rush off to answer the call, only to find that the alarm is at Montag’s own house. Mildred gets into a cab with her suitcase, and Montag realizes that his own wife has betrayed him. Faber tells Montag that he is leaving for St. Louis to see a retired printer who may be able to help them. Montag gives Faber some money and tells him how to remove Montag’s scent from his house so the Hound will not enter

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By sharing his opinion about being a fireman and burning books with Clarisse. Montag took Clarisse questioning into consideration. He withheld the number one thing that is banned in the city, books in his house. He explored books and was confused why they were banned, so he quit his job as a fireman. Clarisse points out that Montag is not happy.

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In the beginning of the novel, Montag meets Clarisse. She talks to him and treats him like a person, not a scary fireman. She seems very mature to Montag

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And then he was a shrieking blaze” (Bradbury 113). Montag’s last encounter with Beatty pushed him over the edge by first threatening to find Faber and kill him, which made Montag turn off the safety switch (STEWE-2) After killing Beatty, the government labeled Montag a criminal. “He was three hundred yards downstream when the Hound reached the river” (Bradbury 133). Montag acts against his society by running away from the punishment they have decided to give him. Montag did all of this because he was also looking for real people, people such as Clarisse.

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Whilst the firemen began to trash a woman’s books and her house, Montag notes that, “She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about” (Bradbury 37). After witnessing a woman watch all of her belongings be completely ravaged and destroyed, Montag finally begins to feel guilt and other emotions that have been abandoned in his society. This example displays an extreme version of censorship in which people can be severely punished, however, Montag is beginning to see the flaws in this way of thinking and he has started to show some humanity. Rather than exit her house and leave her books to burn, “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and stuck the kitchen match against the railing” (Bradbury 40). Watching this woman die along with her books with such disdain for him and the others changed his thoughts about books and made him question everything he had been doing thus far.

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