relationship with Faber‚ gave Montag a new outlook on life. Before any of this happened‚ Montag was just a regular person in his terrible society. He did not care about anything‚ who it affected‚ or why he did what he did. All he knew was that it was what society wants him to do. Beatty’s death gave Montag a new way of life by forcing him to understand what he has done. That it is a harsh world and it is either burned or be burned (125). Upon this realization Montag is on the run‚ fighting for his
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different moods including it being dark ‚ scary ‚ and weird. Guy Montag is a fireman who is physically described as being 30 years old and having flamy orange eyes. Montag was determined all throughout the book. Montag wanted to have answers quickly. Montag’s purpose is to reverse people from burning books to reading books. Clarisse McClellan is Montag’s neighbor. Clarisse asked Montag “Are you happy?” Clarisse asked this to make Montag really thing. Clarisse was described as having a slender ‚ milk
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By compelling Montag to think about his life and satisfaction‚ Clarisse McClellan acts as a catalyst for Montag’s transformation of character. After meeting him and discussing nature and their surroundings‚ Clarisse asks Montag if he’s happy as she leaves him‚ to which he realizes that “He wore his happiness like a mask and [Clarisse] had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (Bradbury‚ 12). When Clarisse‚ an abnormal member
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protagonist‚ Guy Montag. At first‚ Montag takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman‚ burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. However‚ Montag soon begins to question the value of his profession and‚ in turn‚ his life. He begins to wonder why some people are willing to sacrifice their lives to keep their books. In a society where censorship and restrictions are in force‚ always a few people will resist this control and seek to find the answers. Montag becomes one of these
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One day on the way home from work‚ he meets Clarisse McClellan. Montag is rattled by Clarisse and her parting question: Was he happy? However‚ he is distracted when he discovers his wife had overdosed on sleeping tablets. When he meets Clarisse again‚ he finds himself behaving differently‚ starting with tasting the rain as Clarisse suggested. The Mechanical Hound is then introduced as it described as alive‚ but not truly. When Montag begins to wonder and question Beatty about the books‚ a report was
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451 by Ray Bradbury follows the life of Guy Montag‚ and the people who shape the person he becomes. It all begins with Montag working happily as a fireman‚ but his job isn’t to put out fires-it’s to start them. In the society that Montag lives in books have become illegal‚ and it’s now firemen’s jobs to burn any books left in their world. As Montag’s story continues he meets a girl that makes him question whether he’s really happy or not. While Montag is trying to figure out his identity‚ there are
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"Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs‚ nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do! (Ray Bradbury-Fahrenheit 451)". Was Guy Montag the same person at both the beginning
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want to escape from it. A man named Montag is the main character or protagonist of the story. In this story it
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Look around. I’m sure if you look around your house‚ you will find a book or two. Now imagine living in a society where books were not allowed. How would you learn things? How would information be passed down? Books provide so much to life‚ and think what life would be like if there was nothing to read. Regardless of whether you’re a reader or not‚ you still use books. They provide the information that is the basis of life; the everyday things. People that live in the communities of Fahrenheit 451
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12/6/12 A new ending to Farenhightt .451: Montag will find the truth The mornings where Montag would wake up to a fire alarm and went straight to work‚ to set aflame books that contained wonderful literature works. Montag and his crews job was to set fire to the books‚ and burn them. Montag inquires an incident where he burns a lady with the books and that changed his life forever. Montag went on talking to Granger and his fellow mates‚ “I think we should go back to see what has happened
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