F451 Analysis Essay: How Did Montag Change ?
“ If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” The book Fahrenheit 451,written by the award-winning author Rad Barberry, is a novel with many inspired themes around the 1950’s. In the novel, Guy Montag, the main character struggles through his adventure in the book in a society in which books are illegal. Bradbury uses many themes to show the reader a clear image with a meaning through journey Montag goes through. With many ties relating to the time of the 1950s, Fahrenheit 451 is a book worth reading more than once. Through the novel, the reader gets to experience the change Montag goes through from his very first thought
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He goes on with his plan but runs into an issue in which his decision clearly states he’s going all out for books. Guy lost it all, his job, his home and even his wife ditched him because she didn’t want to deal with his weird and abnormal idea. Guy even almost gets killed a second time by beetle but barely manages to survive and still doesn’t give up because in all this is what he believes in. He manages to meet in the end people like him, who think and want to act just like Guy. Granger is one of the old professors who gives Montag that last bit of knowledge he needed. Granger explains to Guy what human really are and really struck him with his words. He said to Guy “We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation." It talks about how the book are key in human life, that it's the reason why we don't make mistakes ever again because we learn from them. In the society where people burn books, they won't know what to do so they end up making the same mistakes over and over again. For example the war, it could have been avoided but as Montag realized that nobody cared enough to actually pay attention. Montag then begins to understand why Beatty and the others were like that. They never knew the truth, never actually had any information or knowledge, they were ignorant. Unlike Montag and Clarisse they were open to new ideas and information, they risked and learned from all the experiences. With all this Guy, in the end, decides to help rebuild the community with the books and knowledge with the