Guy Montag is the complex, curious protagonist in Ray Bradbury’s bestselling book, Fahrenheit 451. In his fictional life, he faces many challenges. These events makes Montag change the way he carries himself and how he reacts to the world around him. At the beginning of the novel, he shows a controlling, ruthless feeling when burning books, but that changes when he meets Clarisse McClellan.
McClellan is an eccentric teenage girl, who happens to be Montag’s neighbor. They strike up a conversation and eventually they form a friendship. She opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocent, but powerful questions and with her love of everything and nothing at all.
Ever since his first encounter with McClellan, his life spirals into …show more content…
He tells Montag that it is normal to go through a phase of curiosity, and that whatever books he has should be inspected then be incinerated in at least twenty-four hours.
Overwhelmed by the task of reading, he looks for his wife for love and support, but she doesn’t deliver. She believes that Montag is taking a risk of reading. He turns to a retired professor named Faber. He shows him that they need not only books but also the freedom to read them and the freedom to act upon them.
They plot an elaborate scheme to overthrow the firefighter profession, but after a suspicious conversation with two of Mildred’s friends leads them to file a report on Montag. The next alarm was for Montag’s home. He witnesses his wife leaving, the burning of his house, and he sets Captain Beatty on fire. He goes on the lam and finds Faber. Faber helps Montag by telling him to go to St. Louis for safety.There he finds the “Book People”, a group of people who work on trying to rebuild civilization after most cities have been bombed.
In the end, Montag feels hopeful. It is a very different feeling that he experienced in the beginning. His character has really grown by how he received knowledge and new information that crossed his
McClellan is an eccentric teenage girl, who happens to be Montag’s neighbor. They strike up a conversation and eventually they form a friendship. She opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocent, but powerful questions and with her love of everything and nothing at all.
Ever since his first encounter with McClellan, his life spirals into …show more content…
He tells Montag that it is normal to go through a phase of curiosity, and that whatever books he has should be inspected then be incinerated in at least twenty-four hours.
Overwhelmed by the task of reading, he looks for his wife for love and support, but she doesn’t deliver. She believes that Montag is taking a risk of reading. He turns to a retired professor named Faber. He shows him that they need not only books but also the freedom to read them and the freedom to act upon them.
They plot an elaborate scheme to overthrow the firefighter profession, but after a suspicious conversation with two of Mildred’s friends leads them to file a report on Montag. The next alarm was for Montag’s home. He witnesses his wife leaving, the burning of his house, and he sets Captain Beatty on fire. He goes on the lam and finds Faber. Faber helps Montag by telling him to go to St. Louis for safety.There he finds the “Book People”, a group of people who work on trying to rebuild civilization after most cities have been bombed.
In the end, Montag feels hopeful. It is a very different feeling that he experienced in the beginning. His character has really grown by how he received knowledge and new information that crossed his