His job is to burn down the houses of book owners. Instead of putting fires out, he discovers a girl by the name of Clarisse McClellan who makes him think about life and what he’s actually doing in life. This leads him to question his motives and rediscover his feelings about how firemen previously put out fires instead of setting them. The reader then finds out that Montag has been taking books and has quite some interest in them. Montag starts to believe that he may have been told lies for all these years.
In a blatant way, Bradbury ties the entire idea of the firemen and their pursuit of complete censorship of all outside ideas to a historical happening, in which book paper did, in fact, catch on fire and burn. He immediately jumps into the story with this fact, which helps set up one of the conflicts which takes place between the institution of the firemen and their war on books. This conflict can be directly related to a society famous for a never ending war on outside ideas. Perhaps Diane Telgen said
In the novel George says ‘Lennie never done it in meanness. All the time he done bad things, but he never done one of em mean”’. This shows How George feels sympathy for Lennie as he always manages to get other people upset at him and always manages to get himself into trouble but Steinbeck is showing the reader though George that he never means to cause trouble and he often held back and get in trouble due to his simplicity and child like mind. Steinbeck uses characters around Lennie to make the reader feel sorry for Lennie. In the novel apart from George, no one else really cares for Lennie.
This also led to the narrator interviewing the supervisor of the Dr. Hoenikker and then later travelling to an island where the eldest son, Frank Hoenikker, was a general. On his way to the island, the narrator meets Newt(on) Hoenikker and the eldest of all three Hoenikker children, Angela Hoenikker, on the plan as they are going to see their brother. On this island, San Lorenzo, the narrator discovers Bokononism and the unusual history of the island. On this island is also where the narrator writes the book as we read it. Part B: Six Basic Questions about Reading 1.
Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm, and he dies after cursing plagues on the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo then angry after the death of Mercutio lashes out and kills Tybalt . Benvolio tells Romeo to run, because of the Prince's death threat. Benvolio tells the Prince what happened, amd sice both family's lost a member , the Prince banishes Romeo from Verona . The conflict adds to the story by making it interesting to read, and gives the reader the feeling that anything can happen at any time.
I gave some examples on how teenage recklessness plays a role in the book. I’m sure it affected Clarisse’s life when she lost those friends. In the article, the teenager’s actions resulted in him killing his grandmother. In the book, there are many occurrences of death and in every one of those deaths, there is an affect. The first death that really rattles Montag is when the firemen are getting ready to burn a house down, and the woman that lived there started herself and her books on fire.
He then meets Clarisse, and begins falls in love with her after she asks him if he has ever read a book. Montag's curiosity gets the best of him, and he decides to steal and read a book, actions that begin a twisting of how he views his overall life and decisions. As with the society in Fahrenheit 451, the United States government has been turning the table in its direction by trying to make us conform to its ideology, through mandating and censoring certain things out of our lives. As a result of controlling aspects of our lives, such as books and education, our society can end up in Fahrenheit 451 in that the government can make certain agencies, to stop us from sharing other people’s ideas, just as the 451 fire departments were organized to prevent citizens from reading books, and getting ideas. It is obvious that the lives of citizens in Fahrenheit 451 were often times refrained from there free speech and first amendment rights especially when Guy says, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there
Enough to make it know that he, Guy Montag had a book within his possession beneath his own pillow; although he didn’t blatantly state aloud, he did in fact ask Beatty this question, “ Well, then, what if a fireman accidentally, really not intending anything, takes a book home with him? ” (62) Montag. My only question would be, why allow yourself to be found out? It’s simply outrageous if you ask me. Everyone has a breaking point; Montags just so happened to be witnessing a woman commit suicide while he was on the job.
The only way a conflict can be resolved is for the character to face it and deal with it. The outcome of the conflict is based solely on the how the character chooses to handle it. Internal conflict is shown by Montag throughout the entire book. He is constantly debating whether he is doing the right thing by burning books, or the wrong thing. He knows it is against the law to posses books (Gioia), yet he gives into his temptation and steals them.
Faber also shares a love of knowledge and learning, and wants to help Montag with his revolt against the government. Together they create a plot to destroy the plans of the “fire-fighters” who are hired to burn the houses of all those who own books illegally. They decide to plant books in the houses of the fire fighters, a trap so that all of them are framed and will end up killing one another. Also, Faber tries to make copies of the books that Montag has, so that more books still remain in the world and will not become