How Does Montag Change In His Society

When everyone in the society has a different belief than you it can cause rejection against the society. Montag doesn’t question what is happening in his society and goes along with it. Montag questions his job and what he does in his society. Montag wants to know what his society is missing and it is driving him. Montag changes his beliefs about society and this causes him to reject it because he wants to know what his society is hiding.

At first Montag went along with his society without questioning. Montag, being a fireman in his society where they burn books, is happy with his job and doesn’t even question it. At is point in the book Montag follows commands to burn books without questioning it because society believes that books make people
Montag questions what he is noticing about his society. Montag asks Faber for help because he has a lot of questions and Faber said, “And then the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only passionate and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire eaters” (Bradbury 85). Montag noticed that when people stopped reading as many books other people encouraged it by saying they were making people unhappy. Montag thinks about his connection to other people such as his wife Mildred, “‘For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, it was suddenly so very wrong that that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty” (Bradbury 41). Montag feels no connection with other people and he is trying to understand what causes this and what is happening to him. Montag questions why books were being burned and why they were so bad. Montag saw a woman stay in a burning house with her books, “‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something in there”’ (Bradbury 48). When Montag sees the woman die because of books it really affects him. This experience makes him have doubts about his job and his society. Montag thinks about what he has done with his life and
Montag stared to act out against his society and use his voice to stand up for what he believes in. Montag broke the rules and acted out by reading a poem and he got a strange response, “‘Why do people want to hurt people?’” (Bradbury 97). Montag acted out by reading a poem and he started rejecting his society because when he read a poem he was accused of hurting people. Montag wants to be able to really think, be able to understand books, and be able to understand all the knowledge he gets from them, “‘I don't think he knows which book I stole. But how do I choose a substitute’... ‘See what you're doing? You’ll ruin us!’”(Bradbury 72). Montag has a book and wants time to figure out what is so special about them so he starts to act out by switching the books. After Montag acted out his wife, Mildred betrayed him by turning him in, in order to save herself. Montag was turned in and caught by his boss, Beatty, “‘Was it my wife that turned in the alarm?’ Beatty nodded” (Bradbury 111). After Montag acted out his wife, Mildred betrayed him by turning him in, in order to save herself. Montag meets Granger he tries to tell him about Mildred but he can’t remember, “‘My wife, my wife. Poor Millie, poor, poor Millie. I can't remember anything’” (Bradbury 149). Montag got away from his society and now he feels bad because he could make anyone in his society listen before they all died. Montag acted out against his society because he