“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time...Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt time, that meant that everything burnt! One of them had to stop burning. The sun wouldn't, certainly”(153). Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future where all books are banned. Montag is a fireman in the story and faces many internal conflicts. The quotation above describes how the whole world will end up burning if the firemen don’t stop burning books. The three settings in this book are Montag’s house which creates suspense, Faber’s house which creates safety and Montag’s work which creates trouble.
To begin with, Montag’s house creates suspense in the story. Hidden in Montag’s house are books. When Beatty comes over and tells him
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he should burn the books within 24 hours, Mildred feels the book under his pillow. This is the first time she encounters the books Montag has hidden. A quote from the novel shows how Montag felt about not telling Mildred right away. “‘I should have told you before but I wasn’t even admitting it myself. I have something I want you to see, something I’ve put away and hid during the past year, now and again, once in awhile, I didn’t know why, but I did it and I never told you’”(69-70). Montag wanted Mildred to know and was scared to tell her. By the end of the day Montag and Mildred try and go through all the books, but they just end up keeping them. This is the rising action in the story. Beatty sends a hound around Montag’s house to try and scare him. Montag had very many situation at his house that created suspense, but he never realize that it would get this bad. Throughout the story Faber’s house creates a safe mood. Montag goes to Faber’s house with the bible. This is incredibly dangerous for the both of them. They had to trust each other, because if they got caught they would have had their houses burnt down. Faber then gives montag the ear piece. Faber wanted to help Montag face his boss and let everyone know what they are missing out with having books banned. When Montag is running from the police one of the first places he goes if Faber’s house. I know Faber made Montag feel safe, because when he left Faber started the sprinklers right away, gives him clothes and does other small things to keep Montag’s scent away. Montag says in the story, “‘My wife is dying. A friend of mine is already dead. Someone who may have been a friends was burnt less than twenty-four hours ago. You’re the only one I knew might help’”(88). This is when Montag is talking to Faber, he tries to beg for help. Though Montag had conflict with himself throughout the story and a few people betrayed him, he always had someone who he could trust. Finally Montag’s work creates trouble.
The first thing that really presents this mood in the story is when Montag and the rest of the firemen go to the old womans house. The woman refused to leave her house so Montag tried to convince her to leave. Montag went home later that night and felt sick. He didn’t believe burning books was a good way of doing things in the society. Another part in the story that causes trouble at the firehall is when the mechanical hound threatens and growls at Montag. Montag is scared someone might have set it to his scent. At the beginning of the story, Montag doesn’t mind his job, but as time goes on he starts to dislike it. Burning books burns peoples lives in Montag’s eyes. “I can’t do it, he thought. How can I go at this new assignment, how can I go on burning things? I can’t go in this place”(119). This quotation is towards the end of the story when Montag arrives at his house that they are going to search. Montag knows that he is going to be in a lot of trouble and doesn’t think it’s fair. Montag doesn’t thinking burning books is fair so they is a lot of trouble at Montag’s
work. To conclude Montag has a lot of internal conflicts in Montag’s house creating suspense, Faber’s house creating safety and Montag’s work creating trouble. Even though Montag knows books are against the law he knows he has to find a way to stop burning them.
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
Someone else who changed Montag's thinking, changed it by their actions not by tell him anything.<YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN MORE SO THE READER KNOWS WHAT YOU MEAN.> One day the firemen got a call with an address of someone who was hiding books. The firemen, doing their job like always, went to the house to find the books and burn them.
Once Montag witnesses the unethical extent that the firemen would go through to destroy the existence of books, he realizes how corrupt and unjust the societal rules were. “He looked with dismay at the floor. ‘We burned an old woman with her books” (47).
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.
Fahrenheit 451 Montag, a fireman who ignites books into glowing embers that fall into ashes as black as night. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a message in which society has opened its doors to mass devastation. Guy Montag, a “fireman”, burns houses that have anything to do with books instead of putting fires out like the job of a real fireman. In Montag’s society, books are considered taboo, and owning books can lead to dire consequences. Ray Bradbury portrays a society in which humans have suffered a loss of self, humanity, and a powerful control from the government resulting in a fraudulent society.
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.
Books are banned by the government in the dystopian society that brings the unstable perspective of not knowing what is good and what is wrong. The people of this society think that books will take away their happiness and ruin their lives. However, the government hides a secret that it uses to gain control over the citizens and change their minds. At the beginning of the book, Montag starts off by revealing his perspective on burning, “It was a pleasure to burn” (1). At this point it wasn’t clear who said this but whoever it was, they seemed to like burning.
Montag is different than others around him. McGiveron said “An insanity of mindlessness” (Mcgiveron 1). This is the world Montag lives in. He is not alike his peers at all. “Montag has a conscience and a curiosity” (McGiveron 1). This shows he has a special set of traits that is rare in this society. Montag moves past things much better than those around him. An example of this is “even when Montag finally kills the taunting beatty he displaces him syntactically from the center of the action.” (McGiveron 2). Here we see the relentlessness of Montag. To include Montag is special compared to the rest of his dystopian
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.
To start, the novel Fahrenheit 451 describes the fictional futuristic world in which our main protagonist, Guy Montag, resides. Montag is a fireman, but not your typical fireman. In fact, the firemen we see in our society are the ones, who risk their lives trying to extinguish fires; however, in the novel firemen are not such individuals, what our society thinks of firemen is unheard of by the citizens of this futuristic American country. Instead, firemen burn books. They erase the knowledge of the world.
Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is based in a futuristic time where technology rules our everyday lives and books are viewed as a bad thing because it brews free thought. Although today’s technological advances haven’t caught up with Bradbury’s F451, there is a very real danger that society might end up relying on technology at the price of intellectual development. Fahrenheit 451 is based in a futuristic time period and takes place in a large American City on the Eastern Coast. The futuristic world in which Bradbury describes is chilling, a future where all known books are burned by so called "firemen." Our main character in Fahrenheit 451 is a fireman known as Guy Montag, he has the visual characteristics of the average fireman, he is tall and dark-haired, but there is one thing which separates him from the rest of his colleagues. He secretly loves books.
The first role that fire plays in Fahrenheit 451 is apparent from the very beginning of Bradbury's novel. "IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (3). In these first two sentences, Bradbury creates a sense of curiosity and irony because in the story, change is something controlled and unwanted by the government and society, so it is very unlikely that anything in Guy Montag's society could be changed. The burning described at this point represents the constructive energy that later leads to catastrophe. A clear picture of firemen is first seen when the narrator says, "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black" (3). Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn and is symbolically written on the firemen’s helmets, tanks, and in the firestation.
First Montag changes from his conversation with Beatty (the fireman captain) and burning books and why they do it when he say the woman willingly have herself burn. The support is ¨You, weren't there, you didn't see¨ he said. here must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there. and you don't stay for nothing.¨ (Bradbury pg51) For example this is how the parts of text from the book because of the impact it creates on Montag into changing his view on literature. The reason behind this conversation is the fact that they burn books for a job and someone sacrificed their life for books willingly and then makes Montag questions books.
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.
“Behind his mask of conformity, Montag gradually undergoes a change of values. Montag realized his life had been meaningless without books” (Liukkonen). In the beginning of the novel, Montag said, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 3). For most of his life, Montag conformed just like the other members of society. He set things on fire because it was his job and did not question whether or not it was the right thing to do. Throughout the story, however, he grew to find and voice his own opinions and resisted the conformity that his society stressed. When Montag had to decide whether or not to burn Beatty to death, he proved himself by not giving in to what was expected. He killed the captain of the police department, which was an entirely defiant act (Bradbury