Fahrenheit 451 Montag Analysis

Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future and is of a dystopian society where reading and possessing books was made illegal.To take care of this problem the government has made the jobs of firemen to set books on fire rather than to put out fires.The main character Guy Montag is a firefighter that was going through the motions in life and doing his job until his views and ideas were changed. He begins to question the ways of society and ultimately becomes in his own way a hero. People are capable of great things and in order to accomplish these we all need a little help and guidance along the way.
When montag burns down the books along with the woman that refuses to leave the house. Although he did not want to murder the women he was simply
After Montag crossed the first threshold by bringing home the books captain beatty sends the mechanical dog by Montag’s house to scare him and make him burn the books before further actions are needed. Instead Montag just hides his books in the bush in the alley later to be found by his wife Mildred. When she calls in the books to the fire station the firemen go on call to respond. There Montag is faced with the task of burning all of his books and turning himself into police. Montag still in possession of the flame thrower sets captain Beatty on fire and the dog lunges at him while being engulfed in flames “He felt it scabble and seize his leg and stab the needle in for a moment before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air, burst its metal bones at the joints”(114). This dragon was slayed and allowed the hero to continue the departure of his journey. Throughout the entire story Montag has been in fear of the Hound. It was always on his mind and what really made it worse was when it came by his window the night beatty came by to check on Montag. This shows progression in Campbell’s hero's journey by adding in the dragon battle with the hound which is an overbearing fear of Montag. After all Montag has been through he finally reached salvation when he met the hobos on the river bank. He is delightfully greeted as he arrives to the river bed immediately accepted into the group as stated “Don’t judge a book by its cover”(148). This is signaling the return threshold of the hero's journey which marks the end of Montag's turbulent adventure. Campbell’s journey shows how the return is a very important step include. Arriving safely to the hobos and being accepted into the group shows the return threshold to safety. Finally beating his dragon and arriving safely through the threshold