How Does Clarisse Affect Montag

Montag is a brainwashed and simple-minded person like everyone else in the small community. Until he met Clarisse, she talked about how she's different from everyone else and that she saw he was too. They bonded together every now and then, and Clarisse which later on made him a different person. Montag looked around the neighborhood but didn’t find Clarisse, he started to ask questions which led to conflicting things and then realized that the world is being manipulated, one example from the story would be fire.

Montag soon begins to enter the bonfire stage. Clarisse, is an observant, curious, open-minded and unique 17 year old girl. Montag, after meeting a couple times with Clarisse, is when his eyes truly open that his society is full of fake realities. He becomes observant and starts asking questions about his society. While being with Clarisse, Montag would smell the leaves and notice the small details; therefore, he was having a shift from being a prisoner to going up to the bonfire. On page #48 it says, “ You’re not sick,” said Mildred. Montag fell back in bed. He reached under the pillow. The hidden book was still there. “Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?” “You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books-” “You should have seen her, Millie!”…. “You weren’t there, you didn’t see ,” he said. “ There must be something in the books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” This is the event that changed Montags viewpoint on books

For starters, Montag and Mildred’s motivations in life and survival contrast to one another. Montag is interested in reading books and finding out what exactly the government is trying to hide. This mindset contrasts to Mildred, Montag’s wife, who is a normal law-abiding citizen. Montag shows some interest in reading and discovery. Since he works as a fireman, he gets to see all the old books burn along with the houses they were found in. Montag eventually memorizes the entirety of Ecclesiastes in his free time.

of true love in both of them. Throughout the book, Montag slowly realizes that he does not truly love his wife Mildred. In the

Meeting Clarisse and recognizing the lack of happiness in his life gave Montag a new point of view that went against his job as a fireman. Specifically, before encountering

Montag disguised his feelings to make others feel better about themselves, even though he was questioning his own lifestyle. Montag always made Mildred, his wife, very happy whenever he brought home money from his job as a fireman to go to the expensive things for the 3 televisions that fill up their walls. Montag was asked by Clarisse before she walked away if he was happy or not. He responded, “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself” (Bradbury 9). Montag was telling himself that he was not happy because he felt was being a little used for the money. He was never really spending it for himself; rather, giving it to Mildred. Montag was not happy with the fact that his money that he earned is going into some televisions that Mildred has in the house. Mildred was so connected to the money that Montag gave her for the televisions, he really did not know her at all due to the fact that she was distracted with the televisions and not with Montag.

"You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you.” Montag was not thinking when he faced challenges like questions from the others like Clarisse. He wouldn't think and just stay curious and nervous. He couldn't hide anything either like reading books and steal them instead of burning them. He really changed when he met Clarisse at first. He also asked about the people whose houses he burnt. He felt sorry and that’s when he starts realizing that books are not even bad and he's just burning books for no reason and breaks the law by not doing his job and actually steal books and read them like the Bible. He also had to be careful from the Mechanical Hound that was programmed by the government to punish citizens that broke the society’s rules and Montag was breaking the

Montag gives many examples of how he was very depressed about the situation. “Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile” (48). After Clarisse died it was the turning point of Montag’s view on society and his beliefs and actions started to change proving my thesis. Another example would be the night where he finds out she died and the women was burned alive, and the situation with Mildred creating a huge hole for him to be against what he was being told as a fireman. “Are they husband and wife, are they divorced, engaged, what? Good God, nothing’s connecting up”

Montag lives in a completely oppressed society. No one is allowed to think for themselves, that is why books are banned. The media convinced the people that books, they make people question things, they make people have all these extra emotions that just cause drama in a person's life. In the story, Mildred is hanging out with some of her friends. Montag comes out and starts to recite a poem to them. Mildred’s friends experience a feeling of different emotions due to the poem. “ Mrs. Phelps was crying. (pg.100)”. No one is allowed to enjoy a good book, no one can choose for themselves.

Montag actions changed throughout the whole book not just with Clarisse. She may have helped the change but it was not just her. He is not what he used to be. He used to be a husband and a fireman to what he ended as a criminal and a dangerous person running from the police. A voice cried “there’s Montag! The search is done” (Bradbury 149). Until everything changed she died. “tell me now what is it?” “I think she is gone” “Gone” the whole

He began to question his whole life, his job, how books are actually bad, the way his wife lives her life in a television, all because of Clarisse. Everyone in his society has the thought in their heads that books are some evil thing, and Montag no longer believed that and wanted to prove a point that they weren’t. He read every single book he stole since he began working as a fireman and absolutely fell in love with them. He had met an old english professor and started reading the books openly, and kept in touch with Faber. Captain Beatty had been suspicious of Montag and ended up confronting him when he came to his house. At this scene in the book Montag ends up burning Capt. Beatty, with a feeling of satisfaction. Montag had developed a change of hatred feelings towards Beatty from the beginning of book until then, and finally had stood up for what he believed was right, because Clarisse had made Montag believe that books weren’t bad, and his job was cruel. “he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the

Later in the story, Montag meets Clarisse on the way home from work. After meeting Clarisse, Montag starts to think about his job and what he has to

Montag and Mildred are two important characters in the book. Montag can be described in many different ways; unfulfilled, courageous, and re-humanized. Montag never seems happy with his life; Montag is a firefighter an amazing hero in the society yet he is still not happy. Montag questions himself if what he is doing is truly right. Montag meets Clarisse, who makes him happy yet again to ad to his miserable life she is taken away from him. Any person or idea that makes him happy and fulfills his life is ripped away. Towards the end of the book, Montag is a courageous hero, trying to help the world make them realize they’re wrong: “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want” (Bradbury 81). Montag like most heroes would give up his life for the better of the good. He wants to break the

First, in this book there is a woman named Mildred. Mildred is Guy Montag’s wife , who is the main character. As we go deeper in the text , we can conclude that mildred has become self-centered .As in this quote she says “Whole family moved out somewhere. But she’s gone gone for good. I think she is dead. Ran over by a car. Four days ago.” This is when we can conclude that she is starting to reveal her actions when montag is sick. She didn’t let montag know clarisse had gotten run over , when clarisse

In the beginning of the book Montag is just like any other member of his society until he meets his first influence,Clariesse McClellans his seventeen year old neighbor. She’s described as crazy by her uncle and an outsider by her peers. Montag and Clariesse meet when Montag is walking home from work. They get to talking and the first very impactful thing she says to Montag is on page seven at the end of their conversation she asks, “Are you happy?”. Just that alone sent Montag into a spiral of questions and that made him start to question everything because when she asked