Would you like to burn books ? Well, Montag becomes curious throughout the story. The way he changes makes him think more about the society and how it isn't perfect. At first, Montag enjoyed burning books and he had really no interest In even thinking about reading a book. This society in the book, was supposed to be a dystopian society and Montag was a fireman which means that he was to help make society perfect, he failed at that job.He really started to change when he met Clarisse. She made him feel as if he was a better person and he really liked her. Clarisse asks Montag “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?”And he laughed, then said “That's against the law!” This shows that he wanted to listen to everybody and not go against the rules. Montag loved the feeling of burning books his life was mostly about burning the books, and his …show more content…
Montag did what he was suppose to do as a fireman. Remember when Clarisse tells Montag that she heard firemen used to put things out, not begin the fires. Clarisse was clearly challenging Montag to “think” about things. Clarisse then sparked some curiosity in Montag when she asked was he happy. I believe nobody has ever challenged Montag to think like Clarisse has, and that might be one other reason he likes her. As the story continues, Montag’s curiosity grows and grows. He questions many things such as his life, being a fireman, and the books he has. He also questions his wife, Mildred lifestyle and the connection they had is lost. With all that being said, Montag gets in trouble with Beatty and the government. He begins to find greater significance in life, and starts to recognize a lot more things about life now.At the end of the story, Granger someone that is part of “Book Covers” tells Montag that basically there job is to remember all the mistakes they have made in the past so that hopefully humanity can have a better
Books are outlawed and burned. People are being taken away for owning them. The government has made these laws. THis is the society that Montag lives in. He has figured it out and wants to fix his society, but first he has to eliminate the biggest problem. That problem is the government control.
Books are the enemy, they are evil, they are outlawed, they are burned. At least, that is how Montag feels before meeting Clarisse. The first line of the book reads, “It was a pleasure to burn” continued with, “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). Clearly Montag enjoys his work and seems to have no remorse for what he is doing and the damage he is
In the end of the book we learn that the city Montag once lived in has been destroyed. It’s here where we get the end result of Montag, the man who once took special pleasure in destroying books now takes pleasure in preserving them. If not for Clarisse who opened his eyes to the truth through questioning life, or Faber who revealed the truth and magic in the books, and Granger who taught Montag how to preserve the books Montag could have very well been a victim of his cities destruction. It’s clear that Montag was heavily influenced by these three Individuals changing him from a once law abiding citizen of the futuristic government to a refugee of the law discovering reasons worth fighting for regardless of outcome.
Montag is someone who has rejected his society in order for his own happiness. In the beginning of the book, Montag was a normal civilian living among others exactly like him. Montag starts to realize just how messed up the society that he is living in is. He comes to officially reject society when he's sees that things could be different, even if it's somewhere else. Montag realizes what it means to be a fully functional human.
“It was a pleasure to burn” (1). Montag never thought much of his job, to him, it was merely his duty. Meeting Clarisse starts Montag's revision of life. Her interest and questioning is so unique that Montag is intrigued by her. He had never met someone who asks "why" instead of "how." Soon, Clarisse disappears, and is then presumably dead for the rest of the book. Shortly after his disappearance, Montag to begin smuggling books during work, hoping to learn more by himself. From the old woman’s house, Montag steals a book and hides it. At first thought, Montag believes this act of defiance to the law is wrong, and that he should end such rebellious thoughts. Soon after, however, he thinks that it is possible that taking the book isn’t such a bad thing. The ability for Montag to find the courage to break the law, after 10 years of obedience shows significant development in Montag as a whole. This is because he knows he is doing something wrong, but he does it anyway. By doing this and not burning the book, he inadvertently is changing his opinion on fire. Although he doesn’t know it, he is starting to change his opinion towards fire being destructive rather than cleansing.
Therefore, these three experiences or people help make Montag a dynamic character. These people or events all affect him in a different way. He learns a lot from them. Montag would have said that they made a huge impact on his life, because he feels different emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Don’t forget, Montag went from burning books to preventing books being burned. It takes a lot of courage and inspiration for the Montag from the beginning of the novel, to become the Montag he was at the end of the novel.
Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag went through a series of conflicts mostly involving himself and is beliefs. Since he was born into this society he hasn’t seen what it’s really like and how blind everyone is. The battle he has to take, he has to do it all by himself due to the zombies. Clarisse opening his eyes then he would never had wanted change and that’s all that people need is that nudge. But the plot thickens once he sees that books don’t hurt people and that people hurt people. And seeing all these deprived minds knowing nothing more then what is on the outside. Nothing else matters to them.
During Clarisse and Montag’s first encountering, Clarisse asks, “Are you happy?” (Bradbury 10). The question Clarisse asked Montag motivates him to doubt about the meaning of his life and what he does as a firefighter. Clarisse’s interrogation revealed the absence of love, pleasure, and contentment in his life. Walking home after meeting Clarisse, Montag could not stop the inquiry of what he has done in the last ten years of being a fireman and why he does it. It encourages Montag to start his journey to find explanations of why the government wants their people to conform and the reasons behind burning books. This novel would not be able to function without the motivations of Clarisse towards
Montag was a fireman and he burnt people's houses and books for a living. Having books is a crime and asking questions and thinking isn't normal in the society Montag lives in, but Montag has and does both of those things. “ How would you feel if well I quit my job.” (47) Montag brings up many times that he wants to quit and doesn't want to burn things all his life. This is because he is tired of burning and tearing apart people's lives. All the time with his job he sees sadness and fear and Montag doesn't enjoy seeing and feeling those things. He doesn’t want to hide behind a mask. He wants to ask questions and read books which he cant do with the job he has. Ray Bradbury shows through Montag that you want to do things that interests you.
One of the main reasons that Montag changed so drastically over the course of the book was his curiosity. Montag spent a lot of time thinking about his job and started questioning everything he was doing. He starts wondering why books need to be burned and why things are the way that they are. Montag takes up a special interest in book and why things are this way. “Was-was it always like this? The firehouse, our work?” Montag asks Beatty showing his curiosity. Montag’s curiosity is what drives him to find out everything he can about books, society and the way that things used to be. It is only natural for him to begin to question everything especially because his job involves burning hundreds of books a day yet he was never told why these books need to burned. Imagine destroying an object everyday, and being told how important your job is. Naturally you would want to know why you are destroying these objects. This is what happened to Montag and Beatty tried to explain it to him and tells him he shouldn’t be too curious about it “A natural error, curiosity alone,” Beatty also asks Montag “Listen to me, Montag. Once to each fireman, at least once in his career, he just itches to know what these books are all about. He just aches to know. Isn't that so?” Curiosity is a very natural emotion and even Beatty, who tries to explain things to Montag and discourages books, even admits to looking a few books but says “I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing!” I believe that this would make Montag even more curious.
... story progresses, Montag completely turns his belief system around and becomes an advocate for the salvation of books. He is cast out of his own job and home, but at the last moment his decision saves him from certain destruction by a nuclear bomb. Montag becomes a hero, one of the last few remaining with the power of literature contained in their minds.
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.
In part one, “The Hearth and The Salamander”, Montag hasn’t really taken an interest in the books he’s burning. All he really knows is that he must burn every house
3. The author indicates that Montag has a daring, or rebellious streak in his character by letting the readers know that Montag keeps some of the books at his house, instead of burning them like his job requires him to.
Montag made the choice to kill Beatty rather than risk his own life due to Beatty trying to arrest him. This choice shows that Montag has reached a point where he no longer cares about the world around him, he has even become okay with murdering others. Montag’s use of a flamethrower to kill Beatty and the mechanical hound, show that Montag is also using the very tool that has kept him confined to an empty life, and is now using that tool to liberate himself from everything he was. While Montag is attempting to escape from the city he nearly gets run over, this on top of his rapidly thinking mind, makes Montag really consider the things he has done and the world that he has lived in. Montag hears on his radio that another mechanical hound has been sent after him, so to escape from the hound and to find the intellectuals that Faber mentioned, Montag waded in a river to mask his scent and travel to the countryside.