Fahrenheit 451 Change Essay

He even says to himself that he is very happy, even if he might’ve been trying to convince himself. But, when he gets home and finds that Mildred overdosed, he starts to wonder if they are actually happy together and he says “I don’t know anything anymore”. This feeling of unease is further reinforced during his second encounter with Clarisse. Clarisse tells him to rub a dandelion on his chin, claiming that if it rubs off, it means the person is in love. Montag rubs the dandelion under his chin, but it doesn’t rub off, meaning he isn’t in love with anyone. He denies this and “tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face”, not even Mildred’s. Mildred and Montag also couldn’t seem to remember where they met, even though it was only 10 years ago. Montag also feels that they had nothing in common and this is shown in the quote “and suddenly she was so strange he couldn’t believe he knew her at all”. Montag didn’t feel a connection towards Mildred because while she was the ideal citizen of that society, Montag was curious about books and things he shouldn’t be. Because of the doubt that Clarisse planted in his mind with the dandelion, he starts to question his entire marriage and realizes that he doesn’t really care for Mildred. Clarisse aided Montag in realizing that his relationship was shallow and helped him outgrow an unhealthy

Montag feels at the begining of the novel that the communication is greatly lacking in society. People are becoming very ignorant and turning reallife realationships aside. They now turn to their "tv families". One victim of neglecting real life realtionships is Mildred, Montag's wife. Montag truley hates this. "Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (2.125). Montag hopes that his wife and him can rejoin their connection through the books, but is sadly wrong and must find some one else, Faber.

Montag’s Wife, Mildred, is a negative influence on him, trying to push him away emotionally and physically. She does not know who she really is and lives in an illusionary world with her obsession of television shows and believing they are real. He is so confused because she tries to ignore it ever happened thinking about all the bad things; “fire, sleeping tablets, men disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush...Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing...The whole world pouring down..." (19). After this incident he looks at Mildred in a different light and is someone who he can’t relate to. Another way she separates herself from Montag is through her "family", which is a television show. Montag constantly asks Millie “[if that] family loves [her]… love [her] with all their heart and soul" (83). Her world isn’t based in reality; they are clearly on different paths. Hers is one of illusion and his is becoming that of a totally self-aware person. She blocks everything and everyone out that is around her and lives within the show. Mildred opens Montag 's eyes to the real world and shows him that most people are uncaring and narcissistic.

First of all, Montag faces government censorship over society’s citizens, which changes him to become a courageous character, and he learns that because the government has taught people to take what they have for

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

My (TS): Throughout the book Montag’s feelings about society change when he knows something is missing, causing him to rebel against it.

Instead, Mildred showed her ignorance and was stubborn about changing for the right reasons, committing a cowardly act of snitching on Montag, therefore conforming once again to the terrible, lying community they live in. Mildred lives a pathetic, lonely life consisting of her loved ones which only contained televisions. In the quote, while Mildred was running from the house, she was worrying and feeling regretful but not for Montag, for leaving her “family” behind. Montag on the other hand, differs from Mildred. He started off his life as a conformist and became courageous through others opening his

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel based on a character amed Montag and the life he lives. Throughout the novel his belief will be challenged and he will begin to see the world he and the other characters live in differently. Overtime the man who he was will not be the man he becomes. His beliefs, the characters who have influenced him, and the ways that Montag changes will all be discussed in this essay.

In part one of the book, it leads into how Montag begins to change. For example, “It was

Montag first changes when he meets Clarisse, opening his eyes and being able to see his own faults and those of the society. He then proceeds to further change when he questions himself and thinks about his lifestyle after learning how powerful the meaning in the books are when the woman insists on dying. Montag learns the importance of books in the society when he meets Faber, learning how the meaning in books can be applied to what is happening in society. Finally, killing Beatty shows his change from being a passive reader and spy to an active

As deliberations whirl through his mind, Montag finally feels a sickness and discomfort. “How rarely did other people’s faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your innermost trembling thought?” (8). This illustrates that Clarisse brought a rumination out of Montag. Montag no longer is at ease with his line of work. This event represents the call to adventure for Montag as Clarisse made him ponder for the first time in a long time. The scene following portrays the crossing of the threshold into a new world for Montag.

Mildred's influenced Montag in a negative way. For example Montauk walked into the bedroom and kicked "[an] empty sleeping pill bottle that was full at the start of the day" showing that Mildred taken all of the pills in the bottle.(13) Mildred she would rather take pills and not think which Montag grew to abhor. As we often do when we sleep "Mildred slept with seashells in her ears" just like the radio or the tv we leave on when we sleep.(13) As many of us do today she spends much of her time watching tv or listening to a device unconnected to a social life.

When Montag returns home, he realizes that Mildred has burned a few of the books, which makes him protect them more. Mildred is a very careless and shallow person, while Montag is a very smart and thoughtful person and it is clearly shown throughout the

Subsequently, lacking quality education lead to a chain reaction leaving human relationships to descend and left the conversations dull. Although there are many examples of human relationship destruction throughout the story Montag and Mildred's conversations are constant reminders of only one of the broken relationships. After Mildred tried to commit suicide Montage was compelled to find out”’What [she was] doing?’” that night. (Bradbury 46) Eventually, she blurted out that she was watching ‘the parlor.’ and the interrogation like conversation continued with a series of questions with her blurted answers. “‘what was on?’ ‘Programs.’ ‘What programs?’ ‘some of the best ever.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Oh you know, the bunch.’” Despite Montag and Mildred

Montag realizes that the idea of impact and influence greatly establish who someone is as an individual. The men in the countryside help him to realize that legacy is an aspect that his society intends to shield him from. When Granger speaks to Montag he mentions that in life it does not “matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away” (Bradbury 150). With the advice of Granger, Montag starts to feel less alone in his idea that contribution is a significant part of individuality. The society he lived in produced the idea that people should just live in their homes and watch