In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist Guy Montag creates a new person within himself, showing that people can change and develop into something more than what it expected of them. Montag begins as an ordinary piece of a corrupted society, a citizen of ignorance and blinded eyes, always doing what he is told. However, Guy is curious and the only way to feed his hunger is to save the books he has spent a lifetime burning and he reads and tries to process the material before him but is unable so he looks for help. Montag slowly finds himself drifting away from the ignorance and cutting the ties from his hands in order to create something new. Guy uses his determination to change the hardest thing a person can change- their own self and Bradbury show this fear using indirect characterization. …show more content…
He knows about staying on the ground in ignorance. He enjoys burning books in the beginning. Guy knows how to fly and apply himself. He listens to Clarisse instead of blowing her off because he has an inkling that something is wrong. Montag exists as a dull, unintelligent man but he wants to change. He is determined but currently unable to create that change. By the end of Part 1, he is definitely sure that something is corrupt within society, and he makes an attempt to try to understand his books. This shows that Guy is ready to change his opinion and is slowly preparing to take off. Guy is ready to make a change in his environment like a bird just about to
In every book, characters go through times where they challenge themselves. In Fahrenheit 451, a book written by Ray Bradbury in October 1953 Guy Montag faces several challenges throughout the book, just like any other character, but every event he faces changes him, his way of thinking, how he sees his surroundings, and even starts to doubt if the people closest to him are actually good people. Montag changes a lot, and his experiences and events faced lead to a new person.
...vel FAHRENHEIT 451, the main character is influenced by many different sources. Bradbury writes of a fire fighter that has realized that the society he lives in isn’t right and makes the protagonist want to make a change. Guy Montag is influenced by a teenage girl that makes him realize the beauty’s of the world. Guy is also influenced by a fire that burns a woman alive. Montag steals a book from that fire and that is the beginning of when he begins his mission to find out why his society has become the way it is, and his greater mission of changing society so that everyone in it can think for themselves. Captain Beatty is one of the greatest influences in Guy’s life because of his knowledge, the information of Clarisse’s death and when guy is forced to murder the fire captain. Making Montag’s greatest influences, Clarisse, the fire on Elm Street and Captain Beatty.
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.
Change is inevitable and can sometimes lead to success. In literature, many authors have the characters in their books change because it helps their stories progress from the beginning to the end. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury he has the main character Montag change throughout the novel to show the readers that Montag has learned from his surroundings and his mentor, Faber. Overall, we realize that even though Montag started out as one of the uneducated firefighters burning books, he fought his ignorance and realized that books are really something everyone needs to expand their knowledge and lead a successful career.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag meets a girl who is different from the others in the city. The city is full of people who watch television almost all of the time rather than doing something with their life.While he doesn’t think very much, she thinks and observes often. Over the next few weeks of seeing her daily, his way of thinking completely changes. Being a fireman, the change in the way he thinks is so difficult to fathom so that he steals a book from one of the houses the firemen had to burn. Montag is figured out by his boss and has to burn down his own house. Soon afterwards, Montag must go on the run to avoid being arrested. The government is on guard trying to find him to show people what'd happen if they were to break laws. Getting help from an older man who had learned to handle the knowledge while Montag could not, Montag is able to make it out of the city quickly with little damage done to himself. Ray Bradbury is warning readers of the horrible impacts caused by laziness and how the government can take advantage of weak minded people.
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses a lot of descriptive language and imagery in his work. On page 91, there is a description of how Guy Montag felt on the night when he met up with Faber. He was overcoming a new feeling and he was changing into a new person.
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.
In Ray BradBury’s fiction novel “Fahrenheit 451,” BradBury paints us a dystopian society where every citizen lacks the ability to think critically. Citizens are known to have short term memory, a lack of empathy for others, and an addiction to short term pleasures such as loud music and television. The main character Montag, once a societal norm in the beginning of the book, goes through a series of changes that fundamentally influences him to rebel against this society for their practice of igniting books. Bradbury uses specific events in Montag's transformation throughout the book, such as his conversations with Clarisse and his conversation with his wife’s friends, to help Montag realize that he isn’t
People often question their meaning in life, and one theory that frequently comes out of it is that one is born to complete his life mission. Once he discovers his mission, he will fill its demand. It will fill him with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag is a fireman who believes his duty is to burn every book he discovers so he can keep his society away from the dangerous, fearsome knowledge that they do not want. However, under the influence of Clarisse McClellan and Faber, Montag becomes aware that his true life mission is no longer to start fire on books, but rather, to save those books to prove to his community that knowledge is not to be fear, but to be value. By using white imagery, Bradbury demonstrates that people’s view of life can be influenced by others to show us that people can bring out the true quality within 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.
Guy Montag is a fireman who is greatly influenced in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451. The job of a fireman in this futuristic society is to burn down houses with books in them. Montag has always enjoyed his job, that is until Clarisse McClellan comes along. Clarisse is seventeen and crazy. At least, this is what her uncle, whom she gets many of her ideas about the world from, describes her as. Clarisse and Montag befriend each other quickly, and Clarisse's impact on Montag is enormous. Clarisse comes into Montag's life, and immediately begins to question his relationship with his wife, his career, and his happiness. Also, Clarisse shows Montag how to appreciate the simple things in life. She teaches him to care about other people and their feelings. By the end of the novel, we can see that Montag is forever changed by Clarisse.
In the beginning of the book, Guy Montag never once thought of what his job really entailed or why he was burning houses and books down. Until one night, he met a girl named Clarice; the girl who changed everything. She might not have been in the book long but her character was essential. Clarice was the start of Montag slowly realizing what it exactly is that his job is making him do. “ ‘Do you mind if I ask? How long’ve you worked at being a fireman?’ ‘Since I was twenty, ten years ago.’ ‘Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That’s
...radbury the protagonist Guy Montag had three mentors that helped him along his journey; Clarisse, Faber and Granger. Clarisse is the one who first opens his eyes to the world around him, Faber teaches him how he should approach this new way of thinking, and Granger establishes him as an intellectual who can help society rebuild after the destruction from the war. A line from the Book of Ecclesiastes Montag remembers very well sums up his transformation: “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (158) Now Montag is finally learning who he is and what he should do with his life; through his three mentors he has found his identity.
This realization comes as a shock to him, and Guy begins thinking more and more. He notices other people who aren’t happy such as his Wife Mildred who overdosed on sleeping pills. Even though she says she is happy, Guy knows the truth that it is only society tricking people to believe that. People don’t overdose if they are happy. Anti-heros are also not reliable characters. Guy Montag is a very unreliable character. He is very compulsive and is always changing his opinion. After meeting with Faber, and old English professor, he is talking to his wife and her friends and tries to show them how unhappy they really are. Faber and Guy had already set up a plan, and when meeting with the women, Guy jeopardizes the plan. Faber scorns Guy’s outburst saying, “Montag, Montag, please in the name of God, what’re you up to?” (Bradbury 98) Guy is very caught up in showing everyone how society is evil, but he does not know the right way to do it. He is very bad at following directions and orders, and often does the complete opposite of what is directed. His unreliability is a sign of weakness and is one reason why he is considered an anti-hero rather than a
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality”- Tim Burton. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist Guy Montag learns this as the book progresses. In the beginning of the book, he comes across situations that he finds preposterous, like the suggestion of reading books. In the end of the book, those unhinged ideas become his reality. As the book advances, we get glimpses of how Montag’s thoughts of society change. Guy Montag goes through a special character transformation throughout the book, starting as a loyal fireman and ending up as a book-reading rebel.