Guy made various discoveries during the first part of the story. He met this women named Clarisse McClellan. He discovered a couple of things about her which included the fact that she was "17 and crazy" or so that is what was said in the book so far. Before Clarisse left to her house she asked Guy if he was happy. A little later after stepping in his own home, he discovered he was not. After having a chat with Captain Beatty, he realizes what his job is and decides he won't do it anymore.…
14. Suspense- “The front door voice called softly…burn us and the books” pg. 67-68- Montag shows Mildred the books and then the Hound comes and then Beatty comes back...or so they think.…
of art, while burning books, With his symbolic helmet buildings, and human beings is numbered 451 on his stolid head, destructive and inhuman. and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.” p.2 “It never went away, that The main character, Montag, p smile, it never ever went away, as openly states that up until this long as he remembered.” point, he has always been happy with his job and took pleasure in setting fires.…
Through further conversations with Clarisse, Montag came to the realization that his personal life was empty and he began to develop a sense of doubt in his mind. After being called to a burning, Montag impulsively catches a book and hides it away before the house was set ablaze along with the old woman inside. Then, after Clarisse disappears, his boss Beatty comes to visit to lecture him about the dangers of reading books, after he had his wife call him in sick. Moreover, Beatty visited Montag; ironically stated knowledge of quite a few works which spiked Montag’s increasing interest in the contents of books. Soon after, Montag revealed several hidden…
Montag encounters a stage in his life that is questioning him. Clarisse wants to know if he is in love, so she holds a dandelion underneath his chin. When nothing rubs off, Montag gets angry because he thinks he is “very much in love” (Bradbury 22). He also experiences confliction when Beatty finds out that Montag is stealing books, so Beatty sets the Hound after Montag. When Montag approaches the Hound, it “growls” (Bradbury 25). This event adds to the suspense building in the readers mind.…
After being betrayed by his own wife and faced with his angry captain (Beatty), Montag burns down his home and with it the books he loved. As Beatty discovered the two-way radio, he realized that Montag wasn't alone. This put Montag at a moment of truth where he refuses to return to his life by turning himself over to Beatty. Instead he kills Beatty in order to save his friend and father figure Faber. As a result, Montag was now on the run from the government he so faithfully served. Later Faber instructed Montag on how to begin his magic flight down the river. On his trip down river, Montag reflected on his life and this path that was in front of him, “After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his…
In Montag’s journey he faces betrayal many times. Montag betrays the firemen by stealing a book from Mrs. Blake’s house. The narrator explains as Montag’s hand acts on its own, “Now it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit…” (Bradbury 37-38).…
Montag grasps that burning books was wrong and tries to fix it because,” maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. This might stop us from making the same damn mistake.” Montag view on book is that if they weren't illegal then it would help people stay out of trouble, and it would help better our society. Another way he tries to correct himself is by going across the river and trying to meet with the book lovers to try to fix thing. Even though Faber warns him that he won’t be able to,” ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving and if you drown at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” Even though Faber warned Montag about the risk he was putting himself if he went across the river. Montag still went ahead with his plan know he had 50/50 percent of surviving. This show he really wanted to make things right and was willing to do everything in his power to do so.…
Montag suggests planting books in the firemen's homes to show people that the profession is wasted and watch the firehouse burn. But Faber decides this is unnecessary because no one reads books. Faber says they just need to wait and see because the coming war will eventually mean the death of the TV families. Montag concludes that they could use that as a chance to bring books back.…
During this meeting, Faber and Montag formulate plans to take down the entire fireman system. They plan to hide books in the houses of firemen and in firehouses all across the country, and therefore cause all of the firehouses to be burned. While Montag is at Faber’s house, Montag threatens to rip apart a Bible, which could very possibly be one of the last Bibles in existence. Montag does this to force Faber to agree to teaching Montag how to be a critical thinker. This signifies that Montag’s ideas are shifting from a more peaceful outlook to a more violent and destructive one. Therefore, Montag’s meeting with Professor Faber is a big step in Montag’s ideological…
Bradbury shows how the government rules with an iron fist. Anyone to break the law is arrested and taken away. In the third section after Montag kills Beatty he is on the run from a mechanical hound and two dozen helicopters with great technological powers. He nearly gets hit by a teenage driver who thinks it is funny to barely escape the hound by floating down a river out of the city. Instead of the police showing him getting away they find an oddball person who is in the wrong place at the right time and say he is in fact Montag. The book reads, “The innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand. He stared at the Hound, not knowing what it was. He probably never knew” (Bradburry 149). All the people watching the chase think it is him and see the hound reach him and proceed to rip the flesh off his bones. This is the epitome of the government trying to put fear into society and put down any thoughts of reading books. I believe the hound that each fire department uses is built only to keep the firemen in check and neutralize any thought of reading books that they may find on the job. This is one of the many ways in the book that the government controls.…
Montag went on talking to Granger and his fellow mates, “I think we should go back to see what has happened to the others in the city.” “Are you crazy? The first thing we need now is to go back there and get pulverized by those damn mechanical hounds. Have you seen their needles?” “They lurk around to find you and when they do, there is no sign of escape. They have those needles that will just shoot right to the ground, like a sniper rifle.” “Then you tell me, what should we do?” “Just sit here and jabber all this nonsense talk or to get up and do something!” “Shhh… I hear something.” Out of the deep dark woods some figure appears, Granger looks to see who it is and it is Faber. “You guys out here alone?” Montag thinks to himself not knowing what was going on at the time, he thought to himself, “how did Faber get here” and then it struck him. After Montag took dirty clothes and a bottle of gin from him, some shadow was following Montag and not knowing who it was, he kept on running as fast as he could. But that shadow was Faber. He left the house and I followed him down the stream, and into the woods escaping the horror of the atomic bomb. “Montag….Montag!!!!!” Faber screamed.…
Montag doesn't want to burn books anymore he wants to stand up for them. His whole life Montag has been burning books until he meets this girl named Clarisse who makes Montag ask "why." Montag doesn't feel the same after he experiences something that traumatizes him.The thought of an old lady who doesn't want to give up her books who then decides to burn with them makes Montag feel disgusted by the fact that they let her die. Montag who hides books himself is in even more danger if he gets caught. Beatty knows Montag has books, so he interrogates him by saying that "At least once in his career every fireman gets an itch."(Bradbury 43-51) Beatty then proceeds to ask him random questions . Montag then suspects that Beatty knows that he has books.…
Later on, Bradbury expresses the greatest destruction of fire with a graphic and gruesome description. After burning the books and his home, Montag kills Beatty, shooting a spout of fire at the chief until " he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn (113).” Montag decides at this point in the book to use the full extent of fire's terrible power to murder a human being. This is the last stage in Montag's transformation; he no longer values the people he respects. Like the fire, Beatty tries to destroy and burn all the conviction Montag has in his decision to fight against society. Montag finally uses that fire by burning Beatty to ultimately destroy the last bit of his once normal life. The fire both literally destroys everything he has and metaphorically…
Montag becomes kinder; he sees the self-destructing depressed people and Instead of merely moving on in his life and not caring, he is affected by it. He develops a conscious. He begins to feel guilty, starting after the woman killed herself right in front of him. He begins to question things, like his life, his role as a fireman, and the illegality of books. He…