How Did Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a novel by Ray Bradbury that takes place in a futuristic world where society is brainwashed into lacking free thought. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter, but because houses are fireproof and society dislikes the free thinking and creativity inspired by books, firefighters burn books as a janitorial job. One day while walking back from his job, Montag meets his new neighbor’s daughter. She talks crazy things that spark him into becoming a free thinker himself. After following society’s rules throughout his whole life, he suddenly switches and starts rebelling by threatening, endangering, and even killing others to try to prove his point to his brainwashed enemies that this way of life is wrong. After burning his path throughout the city, Montag runs away from the police finding his balanced

Guy Montag, on the other hand, is a fireman who starts fires, rather than stops them, in order to burn books, which are banned. Anyone caught with books are reported and their house and sometimes the people themselves are burned to the ground. People in his society don’t read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Guy is struggling with the meaninglessness of his life. His wife doesn’t seem to care and when he meets a seventeen year old girl named, Clarisse McClellan it opens up his eyes to the emptiness in his life. After this Montag becomes overwhelmed because of the stash of books in his house that he stole while on the job. Beatty, the fire chief, says that it’s normal for every fireman to go through a stage of wondering what books have to offer. Beatty gives Montag the night to see if the books have anything valuable in them, and to return them in the morning to be burned.

Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.

Clarisse makes Guy Montag open his mind up to new things. Clarisse asks Guy Montag a question that is very simple yet very deep. The question she asks him is simply “Are you happy?” This question inspires Guy to think about his life and how he can change it. Once Montag gets home he finds his wife Mildred looking lifeless, his wife had tried to commit suicide. It made him think more about Clarisse’s question of “Are you happy?” The next morning when Montag and Mildred had awoke, Mildred did not remember her attempted suicide. His wife’s attempted suicide made him think more about his life and the events of his life so far. Montag tries to understand why Clarisse questions the ways of their society and acts the way she does. Montag does not understand why Clarisse asks herself why. Montag begins to question the society he lives in because of Clarisse’s question. Montag ask a coworker about what firemen use to do in their job in the past. His fireman coworkers tell him to remember the rule book and that they were given the job they do now for a reason. The firehouse gets a call to go burn down another house that contains books, it is Mrs. Black’s house. When they arrive the light of the fire had already started from the burning of her house and books. Mrs. Black decided to stay in her house with her burning books and die. Montag wonders why

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a dystopian society that burns literature and everything and anything to keep the civilians distracted from the obstacles of life. Guy Montag is a citizen whose job is to burn down houses that contain literature, for books are illegal because the government says it causes controversy. His wife, Mildred, sits in front of the “parlor walls” with “seashells” in her ears and goes along mindlessly with society. Throughout the story Montag is influenced by people with minds of their own, whom help him think for himself.

The first page of “The Heart and the Salamander” introduces the main character, Guy Montag. Montag is a fireman, who enjoys his job and feels a great pleasure in watching things burn. Firemen’s job is not only to burn books, but the house with the books in it. Everything changes when he meets Clarisse McClellan, his seventeen year old neighbor, on his way home. She starts questioning Montag about his job and she tells him that the fireman used to be the one fighting the fire, not the trigger for the fire. Clarisse presents to Montag a whole new vision about life and it is different of what he used to know. She asks him if he is happy, which makes him angry but makes him think about it. When he gets home, he finds by his wife’s bed an empty bottle of sleeping pills and call the hospital.

A politician named Mary Brandbury once said, “It's never too late to do the right thing”. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, his name being Guy Montag was a firemen. In the contrary of today's society, Firemen actually were in charge of burning, specifically burning books to prevent minorities from getting offended. Montag realized he was doing the wrong thing and came to the conclusion that it wasn't too late. Montag changed throughout the whole novel. He started by being and discontent man living an ordinary live, then he started to think more and proceeded to become thoughtful, then he stopped thinking and started acting, then finally reached his freedom and became liberated.

“Some people cross your path and change your direction.” stated by Justine Edwards leads to the fact on how there are people in today’s world as well as in Montag’s world that influence others to change their way of life. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the dystopian world that the protagonist, Montag, lives in; is full of people with the same mindset and personality. They essentially are brainwashed and catechized into doing what the majority of society wants them to be. However, Montag develops through the influence of other outsiders that have different beliefs than his own culture or morals. Montag changes and evolves into a new person through the acts, influences, and manipulations of several characters in this novel.

When a society abandons the past, the future becomes more unfamiliar than ever before. This is a concept present throughout Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, in which the society has abandoned reading in its entirety. Guy Montag, the main protagonist in the story, is a fireman. The word fireman itself has lost its historical meaning in the story and has changed from men who put out fires to men who start fires and burn books. The reason these men burn books is because they were outlawed after people stopped reading them, and this is done in order to maintain social equality.

When Mildred tries to kill herself and the hospital just simply pumps her stomach and sends her on her way – with seemingly no memory of the event – this is seen as normal by everyone and even Mildred questions nothing. The next day, only stating she is extremely hungry right before picking up the script she received for the latest ‘Parlor Play’ that would be on the wall-screens later that night. Her detachment and apparent amnesia bother Montag and when he tries to

Guy Montag is the husband of Mildred and a fireman who was caught in the world of despair. He was like every other person in the world, without his humanity he,” grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame” (Bradbury 2). The smell of kerosene and burning books made Montag a happy man. Along his way his point of view was changed and his humanity snuck back in. Books were not allowed at all,” But Montag was gone and back in a moment with a book in his hand” (Bradbury 94). Montag wanted to know what they meant and said, therefore the way he was changed. Leaving him a different man than he was before.

Guy Montag and his wife Mildred live in a world where being a fireman means destroying books instead of extinguishing fires and having an education makes someone a threat

In this book Guy Montag is one of the fireman that goes into peoples and burns the books. He thought that he was happy and that he had a great life. Then he meets this girl named Clarissa Mclellan, she lived down the street from him. She would meet him and walk with him on his way to work and she would ask him questions that made his start to question his life. She was the one that made him open his eyes and see that he was not truly happy like he thought he was. She made his question his whole life, job, and the future. Her family was different than other families in the society. They knew how to be happy and how life could be. Over time Montag started to enjoy Clarissa and her talks but then one day she died and that’s when things started

Montag realizes this and notices the call was from Mildred as she speeds off in her car. Beatty goes to Montag’s house and forces him to burn his own house down. Beatty pushes Montag to also burn him,”Montag you idiot, Montag, you damn fool: why did you really do it?” Montag listened. Beatty struck him a blow on the head that sent him reeling back,”(Bradbury 118). Montag proceeds to knock out the other firemen and grabs the books he has hidden: “He found a few books where he had left them,near the garden fence. Mildred, God bless her, had missed a few,” and he takes off

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, centers around Guy Montag, a “fireman”; one who burns books. In this book, books are outlawed, and anyone who owns books has their house burned, along with their books, and is arrested. It takes place somewhere in the United States and sometime after the 1990’s, but the exact location or year is not stated in the book. In the book, the United States is on the brink of war with another country, although the country is never named. The book begins with Montag setting fire to a home with his fellow firemen, and coming home shortly after. On his way back, he meets his new neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old girl who after talking for a few minutes, she asks Montag if he is happy. This makes