Montag met many people throughout the novel, but I believe that the most influential one was Clarise McClellan. Some of the other important people he met were Mildred, Captain Beatty, and Faber. Clarise is a teenager who Montag met early on in the novel, she was different from everyone else because she took time to think about what was happening around her and wasn’t always focused on what’s next unlike the others in society. Montag found Clarise when he was walking home from the firehouse and could tell something was different about her. He was out walking and enjoying herself which is uncommon in Montag’s society. Claris is important because she teaches Montag how to enjoy his life more and understand how to appreciate the little things in …show more content…
Captain Beatty is Montag's boss at the firehouse and has been a fireman for more than 10 years. When Beatty was young he loved to read and read all the time, but as he grew older he decided that books gave people advantages and decided that people should be equal and equality should be enforced by burning the books. After Montag had stolen the book from the old woman's house, he decided to turn himself in to captain Beatty who threw the book away and began to quote many complicated literary texts. The reason for Beatty’s quotes were to confuse Montag and convince him that books were better burned than read and understood, because they were confusing and hard to understand. "When did it all start, you ask, this job of ours, how did it come about, where, when? Well, I'd say it really got started around about a thing called the Civil War. Even though our rule-book claims it was founded earlier. The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then--motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass…" (Bradbury, 51-58) Captain Beatty was also the person who became suspicious when Montag called in sick for work, he went to his house, and that is when he gave montag his speech. Beatty’s speech is talking to Montag about the reasons why they shouldn’t read and he also attempted to dissuade Montague from reading or rebelling against the