Changes In Fahrenheit 451

Montag’s entire system of beliefs changes when Guy meets a couple of people with unique perspectives, Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who Montag met while walking down the street one night. She claims she is crazy and always seeks out the answers to questions that nobody else thinks to ask. Faber is an ex-professor who is old enough to have watched the decline of intellectual life in his country. Montag once met Faber in the park carrying a book of poetry on his person and quoting it. Nevertheless, Guy does not turn Faber in to the authorities for possession of a forbidden book, but keeps Faber’s personal information. These two people alter Montag’s perspective on the world and the stories concealed in it by the media and government. By the ending of the story, Montag transforms into a completely different person who, desiring more out of his life, discovers that he can save his burning society by bringing back books and poetry. Therefore, Montag changes throughout the course of the story by beginning to question authority and doubt the ways of his life and society. From the beginning to the ending, Montag transforms through the influence of the people in his life.

Sandy Hook Elementary School. San Bernardino. Paris. What do all of these places have in common? They fell victim to unpredictability. Mass shootings are not new to our society, but they are still a devastating problem that should not exist any longer. Mass shootings connect to the novel, Fahrenheit 451, through both the unnecessary violence and the absence of humanity that are evident in the novel. Mass shootings are a devastating problem in our society, and now their numbers have escalated to a new level. This change reflects how both our society and our humanity is beginning to crumble, solutions like banning unnecessary and excessive fire arms are currently being enacted.

Change is inescapable; it is the only consistent factor in any society, collective, or individual. Since change is constant, then why are societies usually so fixed on attempting to be rigid in their culture? In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses the culture surrounding Montag to illustrate the evolution of his moral belief system in regards to knowledge.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury they are fire fighters and they start fires instead of putting them out. 451 Is an important number because it is the number of degrees they start books on fire. All of the fireman have this engraved on there helmets. Montag and his crew go to houses and tell them that their house is going to be set on fire. Through this book Montag has a journey of growth through the book. Even though Montag changes in the book change can be a good.

Montag is very confused with everything that is happening. Throughout this part, Guy Montag transforms from a person who enjoys burning books and living in the society that he lives in to starting to question the reason why he is doing those things. He does not know if he is happy with his life. In one night, he met a 17 year old girl who questions his ideas and his wife almost overdosed. In the beginning, you can see that he enjoys burning books and being a fireman: "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history" (1). A quote where you can see Guy is confused is shown here: "I don't know anything anymore" (15). Guy feels like he is in a deep abyss of nothing. Before his encounter with Clarisse, the 17 year old girl, Guy thought he was happy and that his wife Mildred was also happy. Clarisse tries to make Guy think about his job, life, and everything in general. This is shown here, where Clarisse asks Guy if it is true that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them: "Is it true that long ago

In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, shows a society that is totally consumed by pleasure and laziness. Among this society there is a certain individual who rebels against his society’s nature, Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman and in his civilization, he burns books instead of putting out fires. Montag in the beginning of the book was mindless as any other citizen in his society. He was ignorant until his eyes were opened by a strange girl named Clarisse McClellan. She made him realize what knowledge is and why it should be obtained. Shortly after this event Montag steals a book, which is illegal in this community. When this situation has occurred the police in Montag’s city started chasing him. While Montag was on the run he runs into an organization of people where they try to save the information that are in the

Guy Montag lived a life that was always the same, and never changing. However, this all changed when he first interacted with Clarisse McClellan. She opened him up to the world that used to be, one where books were not being burned. After their first encounter Montag thinks of her a lot, and what she said to him. She represents a door opening for Montag which leads him to realizing

Montag is changed by a character named Clarisse she changes him because of her unique personality. Clarisse changes Montag because she shows him how the world needs to slow down and how people need to just examine things slowly. Montag and Clarisse are talking and Clarisse says people need to slow down and examine things more carefully. “ Sometimes I think that drivers do not know what grass is or flowers because the do not see them slowly”(pg7). This

Montag has grown to be a smarter and a more thoughtful person. He used to be like everyone else. Unaware, dumbed down, dull, and not being able to think to the best of his ability. The government likes to keep it that way. They allow for no progressive and interesting thoughts from the citizens. That all changed when Montag met Clarisse. The odd one out that made him understand what he could really be capable of and what books could be for humanity. He started going to work, noticing what was really happening. In other words, he changed for the better. As he continues to act more “strange” then the rest of his society, they start to see him as weird and confusing. Montag goes home and yells at Mildred and her friends. “Maybe the books can get

“And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradbury 113). This first quote is one of many quotes from the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury that exhibits how Guy Montag the main character has changed throughout the whole book. With the help of some friends he meets along the way, his beliefs about books and his life working as a fireman change drastically.

Montag begins to show these changes early in the story when he starts to question his life and if he’s really happy, start asking why, and becomes more open minded. “Are you happy?” These are the words spoken to Montag by his neighbor Clarisse that begin his change throughout the story. Montag was fireman that always followed the rules without a second thought, but one night when he met Clarisse that had all changed. When he first met her she talked about how he didn’t seem scary even though he was a fireman and then asks him if it was true that firemen use to stop fires instead of start.

At the beginning of the book ,Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a simple minded firefighter who burns illegal books for a living. At the start of the book he does this without a care in the world. All of that changed when he met, Clarisse, a unique and insightful, seventeen year old girl who made him think twice about life as he knew it. With the help of a frightful ex-professor, Montag is determined to stop the burning of books and begin the era where it is not against the law to read and where knowledge has no limits.

In the beginning of the story, Montag was characterized as a normal human being during this time period. And during this time period, the big thing was, that all books are banned from being read or owned by anyone. I say that Montag has changed because of his actions and how Bradbury portrayed him. In the beginning Montag would come home to his wife, Mildred, after a long day of working as a fireman.

People's values, views, and demeanor change as the meet new people and encounter events that impact his/her life. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, he describes events that Guy Montag, a firefighter, has come across that have impacted the way he thinks and acts within his community. Montag's view on the society he lives in has changed drastically because of the people he has come into contact with and because of the events he has experienced throughout this novel.

Clarisse is one of the many characters that influenced Montag to change.She forces him to think