Guy Montag lives in the "future" as a fireman. He is not an ordinary fireman though. Him and his crew member burn books, they start fires instead of stop them. In Montag's world not one person thinks for them self, or can enjoy anything other than electronics. Books were banned to avoid confrontation of any form. All of this changes for Montag though when he meets seventeen year old Clarisse McClellan. She is the complete opposite of everyone he has ever met, and most importantly, she makes him think about what is going on around him like no one else ever had. One of the many crazy things that she said was that once upon a time, firemen extinguished fires instead of starting them. Meeting Clarisse seemed to have begun an unusual chain of events because, the same day that Montag met Clarisse, …show more content…
Beatty explains to Montag that every fireman wonders what books have to offer at some point in their career, and proceeds to tell him why books were banned in the first place. People would object to books that offended them and soon all books looked that same, but that wasn't good enough. Society decided to burn all book to prevent conflicting opinions. Beatty gives Montag to see if the books he had stolen had anything special about them and then to turn them in to be burned. After Beatty leaves Montag wastes no time and begins his night filled with reading. When he thought it was too much to handle, he went to his wife for her imput. But all she cared about was watching television. That was when he remembered a retired english professor that he once talked to, and figure that this man, Faber, would be able to help him understand the text. While he visits Faber, he learns of the value of books and the life that is inside of them. Faber tells Montag that just reading the books won't make him understand but if he had the freedom to live as the book said everything would make