Guy Montag a married thirty year old fireman who doesn't save people in the way a real societies fireman might. Montag is a fireman who burns book. He has done his job for ten years and has never thought of doing anything else than burning books until he meets seventeen year old Clarissa McClellan. She not only opens his eyes to new possibilities and secrets of the past, but puts him on a path they will forever shape his future. Guy Montag’s conflict with his job, morals ,and government control teaches the reader the importance of individualism and freedom of knowledge through Guy deviating from his work to pursue his curiosity of knowledge and truth. Although Montag wasn’t a star citizen he valued his job, wife, and belief in his government. Montag faces a very tough conflict of individualism when he meets a young curious girl who teaches him to question life as it is presented to him. His life begins to change after watching a woman burn herself with her collection of books that were more important than her life. But why? …show more content…
He begins to save just one or two books from the places they burned down and then reads them secretly. His wife puts in a hint to his fire captain Beatty who gives him the option to burn the book he has in twenty-four hours or face the law since all fireman go threw a curious stage.
Even though he is going threw a mysterious time in his life he doesn't forget about Clarissa and how it all started with her. “Do you mind if I ask? How long’ve you worked at being a