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Guy Montag’s Transformation “The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.” In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys how the character, Montag, and all the other characters interact with each other and how their world views are different than ours. Throughout the story, Bradbury thoroughly explains how the several characters, which live in the inevitable future, adapt to the government and how their emotions and choices differ than ours. Ray Bradbury’s use of literary elements, such as imagery and direct characterization in the novel assist the reader’s comprehension of the overall change of Montag and point of the well-written work. In part one of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces and explains and unknowledgeable, …show more content…

He becomes increasingly discomforted and discontent as he realizes as he has been living an empty, infilling life. “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to be flowers, instead of growing on good rain and back loam.” At this point in the novel, Montag has made his choice to protect the books above all else, although he has not completely made his break from his house. Bradbury uses this imagery to compare how Montag sees life, and how Faber explains how and what it’s really like. This pertains with Montag’s change throughout the novel because this is where he learns from Faber how to think and to live life to the fullest every day. Direct characterization is another literary element Bradbury uses to help the reader connect and realize how Montag transforms throughout the book. “The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the guilt titles with her fingers, while her eyes accused Montag.” From this literary element, we can know that the lady is mad about Montag burning her books. But when the women recognizes what Montag will later on, that the value of books isn’t physical, and doesn’t lie on the visible pages. This can relate to the change of Montag because maybe this lady is the spark that makes him run to Faber for help. Once again, imagery is used to demonstrate Montag’s change. “They rounded a corner in thunder and siren, with …show more content…

Due to a result, these powerful literary elements, Bradbury is able to compose this well-written novel. Upon reflection, the novel is reminiscent of present times, because like the people in the novel, we are being pulled close and closer to technology. What do you think the future generation will be like? We need more people like Montag, who can think and who has potential to be very

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And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books, (Bradbury, 49). " This quote explains that books are more than just a piece of paper with writing on it, but an actual person spilling their thoughts and emotions within the context. It contributes to the development, because throughout the book Montag starts to realize that these books did not just appear from mid-air. Some person took time to put thoughts and emotion on to each page.

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The two of them decided to come up with a plan to show people that books are not worthless. c. Montag and Faber are living in a world where everyone believes that books have no value to them and should just be burned. However, these two characters think differently about them. Montag has been stealing books, and Faber has been teaching him about them. He learns that books reveal the bad parts of life, which is why many people hate them and decide not to read.

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Clarisse -the only person who appears to be alive;- and Faber -the owner of knowledge unused,- share their thoughts and feelings about how to find true meaning in life. Throughout the novel, Guy Montag appears as a dynamic, three dimensional character, because he illustrates the changes that come about through acquiring knowledge; he undergoes dramatic internal changes while presenting himself as a relatable human who struggles against his own flaws. Guy Montag proves to be a dynamic character in Fahrenheit 451 because of the momentous changes he makes in his life. An example of can be found in how his opinion about burning books changes throughout the text; at the beginning he believed that “it was a pleasure to burn...to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” (Bradbury 3)

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This illustrates Montag’s strife in society. In some scenes, though we can see that Montag wishes to break this cycle of consonance he sees by bringing knowledge to the ignorant minds of the society he is so present. Page 94 is a great example of Montag's wish to spread the intelligence he has so far gained. Montag, in this scene, is faced with the ignorance of 3 women in his house, they talk about non-sensible things that anger Montag. His gained understanding and consciousness brings him to present a book of poems to the 3 women and read it to them.

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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist and book burner, battles between the light and dark sides of society, first with Beatty, his boss, and the government and then with Clarisse, a neighbor girl and Faber, an English professor. Montag is stuck in the dark burning books and is ignorant to the world around him. He moves towards greater awareness when he meets Clarisse and is awakened to the wonders of deep thought and books. Finally, he risks his life by trying to save the books.

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His contact with a 17 year old girl named Clarisse McClellan, an elderly woman who was willing to die for her books, and an old professor named Faber, help Montag start to question things and begin a transformation that takes him from the rule following, book burner; to an idea challenging, book reader

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Bradbury portrays how Montag’s perception of fire and burning books with his personal development changes by the different choices he makes throughout the novel. In the beginning of the book, Montag has a great passion and

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After talking to an outcast of a teen girl, Clarisse, who taught Montag to muse about the world in a different way and reading for the first time. He starts to depict his society and life in different ways. He watches as his wife, and her friends have no real human connections, but will lock themselves in the parlor rooms and watch the walls for hours then fall asleep with the seashell radios in their ears. During the novel, we see small moments where Mildred, Montag's wife, slightly rebels and will read with Montag but due to the fact that she has been watching the walls for so long she is too corrupted she does not take in the knowledge or take in to tuition the little negligible sights, and sounds in her life. So in the novel author Ray Bradbury uses the alienation of technology in order to explore the idea that technology corrupts natural human

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Confused and hurt, Montag thought, “suddenly she was so strange he couldn’t believe he knew her at all”(Bradbury 39). Montag also changes a lot after that fateful night. He encounters a woman, who has books in her possession, that is willing to die for knowledge. She couldn’t bear to live a second without her books. What she did scar Montag forever,”the woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them [firemen] all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing”(Bradbury 37).

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Montag has finally realized that books are not just fairy tales that were once made by lunatics, but they were made by people like him, who spent their whole lives creating something beautiful; only for him to come and destroy a lifetime of thoughts and observations. This makes him not only self aware, but also makes him fully understand the importance of books and trying to understand them. Overall, it may be said that Mrs. Blake is the last piece of the puzzle for Montag to become fully self aware and to understand the true importance of understanding books and their true purpose. She showed him that books are worth sacrificing yourself for and worth risking your life to understand their true

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Ray Bradbury, an author of this era, wrote one of his most famous books, Fahrenheit 451, inspired by the new technology and government corruption in the 1950s. Through Bradbury’s use of effective character development and symbolism, he is able to illustrate the problems of government censorship and technology in his futuristic dystopia in his novel Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 451 is separated into three different parts that represent the changes Guy Montag, a fireman whose job is to burn books banned by the government, undergoes. Each part contains a new character that sparks this transformation the reader sees in Montag. In the beginning of the novel, Montag is a conformed citizen who is brainwashed by the corrupt society of mindless entertainment provided through wall TV’s and radios that can fit in a

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He was moving from an unreality that was unreal because it was new”, (Bradbury 140). This shows that Montag finally found out for himself, what those books said and he stopped burning books because of it. The way it describes of how he feels after he escapes that world, he finally sees reality and knows what things are, rather than being

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When Montag reveals his hidden books to Mildred, she does not take time to understand them. “‘It doesn’t mean anything!’” (Bradbury 65).  She, instead, worries about how it might affect her image if they are found out. “He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face paled out and her eyes were fastened wide” (Bradbury 63).

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