Do you know someone who is a fireman? Well, in the book Fahrenheit 451 the main character, Montag, is a fireman, but his job is a little different. Instead of putting fires out he starts them. If you have a book, then an alarm will go off and firemen will come and burn them. In the beginning he doesn't think about his job. He just does what he is told. During the book his beliefs about his job changes. At the end of the book he doesn't understand why he burns books instead of reading them. In the beginning Montag doesn't realize what his job is, and how life was years ago. He thinks reading books, or having books is bad. Montag meets a girl named Clarisse on page 5. She starts to ask Montag questions about his job now and what it was like