Human relationship's are formed through similarities in social and cultural influences. Often times you can recognize similarities between people in the real world that are living through the same situations in their life. Life is time to gain something from this world and to leave something even greater behind. From reading dystopian styled pieces of literature I have found connections between the distinct characters that are involved with the protagonist of each book. These relationships are key to how the protagonist of each story progresses throughout the books plot. Similar character connections are littered throughout each book as well as certain parts that can be found in the Holy Bible. Throughout this paper I will pursue the parallel …show more content…
Clarrise's personality in Fahrenheit 451 allowed Montag to begin to think and produce intellectual thoughts and questions concerning his society. Montag describes Clarrise's face as an experience no one will ever quite have. Montag overthinks her face and has the thought of, "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling" (Bradbury, 11). The man feels a sense overcoming his entire body. Its this obscure entity that he is just know finding. Montag finds his true self in his interactions with Clarrise all because of her has he now find what he once lost several years ago and Montag was able to take off his mask for he, "wore his happiness like a mask" (Bradbury, 12). The happiness he once lost now shown through him like the light that was stolen from him far too many years ago. Every character in a dystopian seems to have someone that is the catalyst for the main character to fight the system that they are being controlled by. This relationship in Fahrenheit is one of the most important ones in the entire story even though it was so very brief. Montag and Clarrise share something that made me think of the relationship between Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games. Peeta is there for Katniss as they both experience the truth about how their society and why in fact they fight in these separate districts that are designed to hold different personalities of certain people. This is another example of how society tries to control people in these dystopian novels. However, this specific relationship is similar to that of Montag and Clarisse because Peeta had such an influence on Katniss and how she made the decisions she did throughout the book series. Katniss once thought about Peeta during the series and realized, "only one person will be damaged beyond repair if