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
From Jew parades to gas chambers, Hitler was known for his cruel and unusual tactics during his reign. At this time when the community is faced with many hardships, Markus Zusak uses passage through windows in The Book Thief as a way of gaining freedom from his control. On April 20, 1940, Hitler’s birthday along with Germany’s victory over its enemies and the restraints that held them back since the end of World War I was celebrated by all people of Molching. The Fuhrer called for a grand celebration with parades and music, but more importantly, fire. Citizens were required to surrender all literature from the “old Germany” to be burned in the name of Hitler’s glory.
Guy Montag: An ex-fire fighter, but still a good person. Fahrenheit 451. The temperature that paper catches fire and starts to burn. The main character of the book, Guy Montag, burns books for a living. Later on in the book, he realizes there is more to life than just burning books.
Book Report Book title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Genre: Science Fiction Main Setting in the story: In a futuristic non intellectual society Main Characters: A- Guy Montag is the protagonist of the story who is a fireman who’s job is to burn books because in his society books are seen as evil and harmful. B- Clarisse Mcclennan is a dynamic character in the story, who is a free spirited 17 year old, questions everything, and enlightens Montag to then brighter side of life. C- Captain Beatty is Montag’s boss and is a foil to him and anyone else who dares to read literature. He himself was once a reader, but somehow had an enlightening of the evil of books, and now burns
The main character Guy Montag is known as a “firefighter”, but instead of putting out fires he starts them. His job is to burn any and all books that are found and in doing so prevent the people of the world from developing any real ideas for themselves. Montag has three relationships that help in his personal transformation; this includes Clarisse, Mildred and Faber. These three characters aide him in many ways and help him to make a discovery in which he becomes an individual. This novel allows the reader to realize how important interpersonal communication is to society, without it there is no room to develop meaningful relationships or new outlooks on life as we
Montag’s Big Change : Fahrenheit 451 Some may say time changes things, but in reality a person has to change things themselves. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag, a fireman who lives in a futuristic society that does no put out fires but starts them realizes that he is actually interested in the one thing he burns. Being a fireman for this community Guy is to burn all books he comes into contact with making it harder for him to find the answers he seeks. Throughout this book Guy shows a change of heart towards the books and their value in this society. This change makes him aware of what is wrong with this society and wanting to read books rather than being like rest of the society by watching and
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.
Something greater will always come out of a bad situation. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that is based in the future, and the main character Guy Montag, a fireman, is revealed to the result of a nation that has removed literature. Bradbury names the first part of the book “The Hearth and the Salamander”. Bradbury uses the two symbols of a hearth and a salamander to represent our society by juxtaposing a hearth--a warming fireplace in a home-- and a salamander--an animal that destroys itself-- and delineating how they represent the rebirth of a society. Bradbury uses the hearth to show the good, non-destructive side of fire, while the salamander eats its tail, but regrows it.
Andrew Kim Ms. Seemann Eng./Writing July 18, 2012 Life Lessons What can one learn about life lessons in a book? The novel Fahrenheit 451, composed by Ray Bradbury, teaches a variety of life lessons one can learn. The story starts off with Guy Montag, a fireman, who lives feeling compassionate about books and literature, which are illegal due to the government's fear of having citizens to be intelligent. Ironically, a fireman's job is to cause fire. They burn books from orders of the government, but throughout the story, Montag had the desire to change his fate.