Montag Changes In Fahrenheit 451

As Montag walks home from work that night, he meets Clarisse McClellan, his 17 year old neighbor. Montag is at once taken aback by and drawn to the precocious girl's inquisitiveness. Clarisse loves nature, doesn't watch television, and hates cars that drive fast. She questions him steadily about his perception of the world, leaving him with the query "Are you happy?" Clarisse leaves a strong impression on Montag, and he continues to reflect on their brief encounter and her very different way of viewing the world. After some time, Montag comes to terms with his answer to Clarisse's final question. He is not happy.

Throughout Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag goes through many changes and by the end of the story, he is ultimately an entirely different person. He is not responsible for all of the changes on his own however, and several characters play an essential role in shaping who he eventually becomes. At the beginning of the book, Montag encounters a teenage girls named Clarisse. Clarisse is only present for a short time, however she immediately gets Montag to think in a way he never has before. She looks at the small things in life and goes against what the current society tells her to think and do. She is different from everyone else in a very freeing way and Montag starts to be drawn into her personality. She is like a burst of fresh air for Montag

In my opinion, Montag went through a more mental than physical change. These changes in his mind mostly occurred because of the influence of individuals such as Clarisse. I think that the situation with the burning woman also influenced Montag’s change of mentality. Later in the novel after these people and situations came into play, Montag’s mind and reasoning were operating reverse of what they had in the beginning of the novel. I believe the biggest reason that Montag and his mind changed was because of Clarisse.

Guy Montag changes as a character throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Montag is a fireman, and that is the most important job in his society. Where Montag lives, everything is really the same, and no one questions anything. They just go along with society. In that society you aren't allowed to have books, and if they are found in your house, firemen come and burn your house down. There are three things in which causes Montag to change. The three things that cause him to change are him seeing the old lady burn, Clarisse, and jumping into the river. Montag changes as a character throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451.

“Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. Are you happy? She said. “Am I what?” He cried (7).

Montag is a character that changes from being conformed to unconformed. He used to be a fireman and even thought, “It was a pleasure to burn” (p1). Montag began the novel being conformed, like the rest of the world.. He thought the same, acted the same, and looked the same. Montag, being like everyone else, was oblivious to everything that was happening in

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag is a fireman that’s unlike our own firemen. Montag is usually covered in the smell of Kerosene. After a while Montag discovers the love of books, which gets him into danger.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the main protagonist, Guy Montag works as a fireman. In his society, all books are illegal. The firemen burn any house with books in it. He takes pride in his job of burning illegal books. He enjoys the smell of kerosene that raises the fire’s temperature to the required 451 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature required to burn book paper. He wears the kerosene scent almost as a perfume (Bradbury 6). Guy Montag is in a ten-year, loveless marriage with his wife, Mildred.

Montag changes in many ways throughout the novel, making him a very dynamic character. At the beginning of the novel Montag loves what he does and thinks he is happy. When he meets Clarisse she ignites the spark in Montag. “’Are you happy?’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ he cried” (10). He then begins to dwell on whether or not he is happy and then he acts upon that decision to find out why. With the prompting of Clarisse by the middle of the story Montag was beginning to learn how to think for himself. However, he makes some very good decisions and some bad. Instead of burning his problems away like he used to do, he now works through them and learns from his mistakes. He begins coming up with plans to correct society and sabotage the profession of

After Montag had been self reflecting he came to a conclusion that he needed to steal a book. His outlook on life had changed and he wanted to see what he had been missing all of the years he was a firefighter. He wanted to find out why books were banned, and what they hid beneath top-secret covers. At this major point in the story Montag is burning a house down that was said to have books hidden inside. Although he had been burning houses for years, and he was supposed to go about it normally, he was appalled. Seeing his job in the light made him feel shocked and and disgusted by the people he used to call his friends. He takes it upon himself to steal a book from the house and bring it home with him. “Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest. ‘Go on.’ Said the woman, and Montag felt himself back away and out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail.” This quote proves that this is a big milestone in the story. It shows that Montag is actually going through with stealing a book. He believes in knowledge enough so much that he will break a law to expose the government. Montag is now determined and has his mind set. This is a big

¨´ . . . they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life¨ (Bradbury 60). The government desires power, to be able to control whatever the people do. That's why certain objects are taken away; rocking chairs, books, anything that promotes true socialization or thinking. Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury; it is about a dystopian society where people are constantly distracted by technology and the media. Guy Montag wishes to gain knowledge by reading books, something that is illegal and punishable by death. He´s a fireman, an occupation where all you have to do is burn books, destroying the information and ideas within them. To do this, however, he must face Beatty,

In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is the main character. Ray Bradbury, author of the book,

In the novel “Fahrenheit 451,” by Ray Bradbury, the author immediately describes the main character, Montag, to allow the reader to appreciate the dramatic change he undergoes as a result of the events in the novel. In the beginning, Montag, the protagonist, takes pride in his work for the fire department. Reeking of cinders of ash, he enjoys dressing in his uniform and igniting illegal books. For eight years he fully invested himself in his job to the exclusion of living a fulfilled life. For example, Montag’s job as a firefighter was bitterly ironic in that he knew a book burned at 451 degrees but never had the opportunity to experience the power of the written word.

In order to understand how Montag changes throughout the novel, it is important to know how Montag is at the start. In the beginning, Montag is mostly fine with his life as a fireman. He enjoys his job and is mostly content with burning books. However, he also has some faint doubts about what he’s doing, as he starts collecting books and hiding them in the air vent long before the events of the novel. At this point, the only thing that could cause Montag to build up the courage to read these books and shatter the veil of contentment that he has built up for himself and the world around him is a large, catastrophic event.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury followed events in the life of Guy Montag, a firefighter set in a ignorant dystopian society where books were burned because of their emphasis on free thinking. This book was separated into three main parts: The Hearth and the Salamander, The Sieve and the Sand, and Burning Bright.