I never thought it will be a society that was strictly against book. Life without books is unexplainable unimaginable. What if you woke up one day and books were nonexistence basically against the law. You could die for having a book at all. Crazy rite it make you wonder if life would be complete without a book. Would there be an existence of the word of knowledge. Are books life do they really makes a difference I this day of time. Would people really care about not reading a book or books being against the law, honestly I don’t really think so. In this day of time people are too lazy to pick up a book or to read a sign period unless it’s benefiting them. With no books would this world go round?
Montag was this young Fire man with issues of his own. He has faced multiple problems in his life. One Incident was when his wife took a whole pill bottle and overdosed herself. That incident made him feel some type of way towards her he’s coming out of love with her he tired of her habit even though they been married for years he has reached his limit. Then one day all that changed Montag meet this interesting young lady that made him have a different outlook on life her name was Clarissa McCallen. When Montag had a specific conversation with her she ask “Are You Happy”? After that specific question life for Montag really change for the worst. When she ask him was he happy at first he saw it as an non sense question and answer with no problem but when she left his presence he ask himself are you happy Montag he ? Then he stop laughing and kept asking are u happy? As the day’s go on Montag and Clarisse continue to stay in contact. You can tell Montag had some type of connection with her for the simple fact when he with Clarisse he doesn...
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...just left. They all rushed over to the house Captain Beatty really played it cool at first and made Montag burn down his own house then turned rite back around and put him in Hand cuffs this angered Montag. So Montag didn’t something he wouldn’t regret. He turned the flame blower on Beatty and burned him to ash with a mild of relief. But he had to fight the other firemen also so he just knocked them unconscious and tried to run away. Montag doesn’t get very far cause the dog Beatty trained to attach Montag sticks a needle in his leg full of anesthetic. Montag starts to attack the dog back with the flame blower he mange to destroy the hound also. With the numbness in his leg he still manage to save the books that were in his backyard. Montag had to lay low he had to get all the attention off his house so he hides out in another fireman house and calls in an alarm .
Clarisse McClellan, a unique outcast whose personality traits you could say has influenced Montag to question his life. During one night after work Montag has a little run in with this unique individual into which his transformation initiates. Montag and Clarisse share a conversation into which becomes a life changing experience for Montag, they talked about life and how it’s so different from the times long ago. However though towards the end of this fascinating conversation Clarisse asked Montag one last question right before taking off, she asked Montag this, “Are you happy?”(Bradbury 7). Montag hesitantly states that yes he was happy right when she took off. Later on that night we find out Montag’s wife Mildred had overdosed on ...
... at all, but cruel and unjust. This is further proved when Beatty forces Montag to burn his own house down. Doing this was a critical mistake for Beatty, as Montag was already in a stage of emotional turmoil, and by forcing him to burn his house down, Beatty pushed Montag over the edge, and killed himself. Finally, when the hound is released on Montag, the book begins to get interesting. This can be viewed as just a fun scene to speed up the action in a book that lacks a lot of it, but it also represents how everything is full of action for the people in the book. They are either driving 100 miles an hour, or watching a house burn, just like they are all watching the movie of their lives. Montag may have started out the book like that, but by the end he was so different from everyone else that the government killed an innocent man because they couldn’t catch Montag.
One night on Montag’s usual walk home from work, he meets a young unusual girl named Clarisse McClellan. She is different from most people, she is idealistic and hates what being social has turned into. She tells Montag of a society where firemen once use to put out accidental fires, and not start them as they do now. Montag thinks this is nonsense the Chief has reassured him that firemen have always started fires, it’s even in rule book. Clarisse continues to tell him about her uncle, who remembers such things from the past. She tells Montag about her family and how they stay up all night talking about a variety of different things. Montag thinks this is very odd, why would anyone want to waste their time just staying up and talking?
Montag throughout the novel faces situations and meets people who opens his eyes about society Montag is a fireman in the society; however, the job fireman takes on an entirely different meaning. Instead of stopping fires, Montag starts them. In the society literature is outlawed and it’s his job to burn the book along with the houses that held them.
In the story, Montag, who is a fireman for the city thinks he is happy until he meets a neighbor girl named Clarisse. Clarisse is considered an oddball in the society of Fahrenheit 451 because she is “antisocial” in their world which actually means that she is social by today’s standards. She talks to people about things instead of the people of 451 who talk about meaningless things that have no substance. Peter Sesario says that’s she is considered to be this way because, “She was a sensitive, observant person who questioned society and was consequently eliminated by the government (3).”One day as Montag and Clarisse are walking down the street Clarisse says to Montag, “Are you Happy?”(10). Montag is speechless and before he could come up with and answer Clarisse is gone. As he enters his house he talks to himself, “Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?”(10) When he is saying this he looks up to the ceiling where he has Hidden books which are things that actually make him happy instead of the things around him which he thinks makes him happy. She also notices that when Montag laughs it is a fake laugh and that he doesn’t really mean it when he laughs. Also when he smiles it is not a real smile which further goes to show that he isn’t happy.
Within the many layers of Montag lay several opposite sides. For example, Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living but at home, spends time reading novels, poetry, and other written material. Although Montag could be called a hypocrite, he does not enjoy both the reading and the burning at the same time; he goes through a change that causes him to love books. Humans have the power to change and grow from one extreme to another, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. In addition, when Mildred is with Montag, Montag does not have feelings for her but thinks of her as she is killed by the bombs. He possesses both the knowledge that Mildred does not love him and the heart that truly cares, but he knows not how to deal with this. His feelings are oppressed; it takes a major event (the bomb) to jolt them from hibernation.
Before this battle, the men are starting to feast on pig and some other foods. All of a sudden they realize that something is wrong because the observation balloons have spotted smoke from their chimney. Soon after, shells begin to drop on them. They race down to the house and feast for four hours. Outside houses are burning, shells are propelled down to the ground. In eight days the men are told to return. Only a few days later are they ordered to evacuate a village. While on their way, Kropp and Paul see people fleeing out of the village with distress, anger, and depression. Everyone is silent as the two walk by them, even the children holding on to their mothers for moment, Paul feels a blow on his left leg. Albert is right next to him, and he cries out to Paul. The men scurry to a nearby ditch. They are hurt, but do the best that they can to run to another ditch. Albert is straggling behind, and Paul helps him to continue by holding him up. They reach the dug-out where Paul bandages up Kropp’s injury, a bullet for an ambulance to be taken. The ambulance picks them up, and they are given an anti-tetanus shot in their chests. When the dressing station is reached, Paul and Kropp make sure that they are lying next to each other. The surgeon examines Paul and tells someone to chloroform him. Paul objects to this order, and the doctor does not do it. The surgeon takes out a piece of shell, and puts Paul in a plaster cast. The two are brought on the train, Albert develops a high fever so he needs to be taken off the train at the next stop. In order to stay with his friend, Paul fakes a fever and they reach a Catholic Hospital together. Paul is operated on and recovers faster than Kropp. His leg is amputated, and he later goes to an institute for artificial limbs. Paul is called back to his regiment and returns to the front.  parts, or lost body parts, and they are thankful that it is not them who are in danger of dying. By receiving injuries, Paul and Kropp experience the war from a different perspective.
While trying to escape the city Montag is confronted by multiple dangers. The first one is the hound catches him and injects procaine into his leg. He knows he has to escape but he has to do some things first, such as frame Black by putting books in his kitchen and setting the fire alarm, since he burnt so many houses. The next one is he comes across the boulevard, and the traffic is too fast and too relentless plus his leg is practically limp, and just barely makes it out alive. He reaches Faber’s house and they devise a plan to escape the city, they would have to try the river, and make it down the railroad tracks and out the city. Once he’s out the city he would meet with one of the groups of outsiders who were forced to leave the city,
People ban or challenge books because they don't want other to read them because of their content, even thought we see most of it in our everyday life. To stop book banning and to keep books on the shelves; if a book has inappropriate content and someone wants to buy it or get it from the library or store they have to get the parents consent. This will also keep parents informed on what their child is reading.
Montag is influenced by Clarisse a lot. And, her impact on him is tremendous. She questions his whole life, teaches him to appreciate the simple things, and to care about other people and their feelings. “You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive..”(Bradbury 23) Through all Clarisse's questioning, Montag knows that she is trying to help him. Because of her help and impact on him, Montag is changed forever.
The first of all, Montag loses his control over his own mind. At the beginning of the story, he meets a beautiful girl called Clarisse. She is a peculiar girl who wonders about the society and how people live in there. She tells Montag the beauty of the nature, and also questions him about his job and life. Though he has been proud of being a fireman, Clarisse says, “I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow” (21). Montag feels “his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other” (21) by her words. Everything Clarisse says is something new to him and he gradually gets influenced a lot by this mysterious girl. Actually, the impact of the girl is too significant that his mind is taken over by her when he talks with Beatty, the captain of the firemen. “Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him. He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, ‘Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?’” (31). His mind is not controlled by himself in this part. He takes of Clarisse’s mind and it causes confusion within his mind. It can be said that this happening is an introduction of him losing his entire identity.
Clarisse is Montag’s first mentor in his journey; she is the one who first opens his eyes to the world around him, as well as asking the ultimate question “Are you happy?” (7) To which Montag cried “Am I what?” He never gave whether he was actually, truly happy a real, legitimate thought in his entire life. He just woke up, ate breakfast, went to work, ate lunch, went home, ate dinner, and went to sleep; and all with a big grin fixed on his face. But now, after a bit of consideration he came to the realization that “He was not happy…. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask a...
Through Montag's conversations with Clarisse, I have learned that sometimes the simplest exchange of words and ideas can leave the greatest mark on a person. Clarisse is the light that wipes away the haze and fog from Montag's life. Without knowing it, she influenced him to clearly evaluate his life, beliefs, and choices. Montag simply went about his business during his prominent position as a fireman. Yet after meeting Clarisse, he began to question his thoughts in ways he has never thought to before. He at first laughs at her controversial questions and thoughts from reading books, to practicing the act of "watching people." The turning point for Montag from his past ways was simply a three letter phrase, "Are you happy?" (Pg 10)
What does Montag think of his feelings would be if his wife dies? Montag began to think about how him and Mildred’s marriage started, which both of them don’t remember. His thoughts were, “he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong 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.”(Page 41), which means Montag won’t be sad about the fact Mildred has died but the fact he doesn’t feel anything but empty and how the society made him deprived in emotions.
Montag's identity crisis of being a fireman makes him question who he is. Montag notices that the firemen have the same appearance as himself which has him think about Clarisse's question . "He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McCellen saying, 'Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stroke them up and get them going' (34)?" This isn't his thoughts, instead they are Clarisse's thoughts since she asked it first. This shows an internal conflict because Motang is questioning his identity as a fireman which makes him want to choose a side. He is siding on Clarisse's side thinking she might be right, since he ask the same question as her. He is curious to know even though he is already familiar with the fireman history but thinks he will get a different response. Perhaps Montag is thinking tha...