Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without any type of books to read ? If so then reader I strongly believe that you should continue to read on. I want to tell you about a world where reading books is illegal and this very same world exists in a book titled Fahrenheit 451. In the following paragraphs I will tell you about Guy Montag, Mildred Montag, Firefighters, Firetrucks, Mechanical Hound, Library, the importance of books, the book people, and knowledge.
The Season in which this story takes place in is Fall. Guy Montag is first seen at the scene of burning books at a house. Guy Montag is wearing a firefighter uniform that is brandished with a phoenix which is a mythical creature. Guy Montag is 30 years - old and Montag’s Wife is Mildred Montag. Guy Montag has been a fireman for 10 years. After work when Guy Montag is going home, Montag meets Clarisse McClellan. Guy Montag and Clarisse McClellan talk while on the way home. Montag finds out that Clarisse McClellan lives with her Mother & Father & Uncle. Mildred Montag overdoses on sleeping pills before Montag goes in the bedroom. Mildred uses the radio, pills, and television as means of escape. The mechanical hound tracks down its prey by the prey’s chemical complex. Then Montag steals a book from an
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Montag loses the mechanical hound by jumping in the river to disguise his scent. Faber is heading to St. Louis to see a printer he knows. Montag burns down his own house. The reason why someone other than Montag is being hunted is that the authorities don’t want to upset the viewing public. Montag kills Captain Beatty. The “ book covers” are people who memorizes a book. Montag is injured by the mechanical hound managed to partially inject him with poison. Mildred voluntarily leaves Montag. Despite the bomb blasts, the wanderers and Montag return to the city. Montag plants books in the Black’s
When Montag burns Beatty, escapes from the Mechanical Hound and runs away from the police, he goes to Faber’s house for safety. They were both curious about how far the police have come with the search. The TV set said, “ ¬–Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake. ” (126).
Later that evening, Guy’s wife has some friends over, and he reads poetry from a book to them. The freak out and run away. When Montag goes to work that night, the fire chief taunts him by reciting things as well and then takes him to a fire call- Guy’s house. Mildred had called the firemen on her own husband. The fire chief, Beatty, forces Guy to torch his own house.
The novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is a thought-provoking, applicable work that will be analyzed in literature classes until practically the end of time. The story revolves around the protagonist named Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books, as he lives in a oppressed dystopian society where it is against the law to possess books. He realizes he does not want to cater to current ideas such as preventing the distribution of knowledge so he rebels. Unfortunately, Guy realizes that his actions have consequences. At the end of the novel, he is on the outskirts of the city he lives in after narrowly escaping the dreaded “Mechanical Hound”.
The novel begins with Guy Montag, who seems like the typical fireman of the time. Later we find out that he hid an entire library of books inside of his house. “Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why. Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place? (123)”
Guy Montag is the protagonist of the novel. He is a firefighter and takes pride in his work. Montag has the desire to burn any book in his sight without hesitation. The job of a firefighter in the novel isn’t to put out fires, but to create them. Guy Montag loves his job, but doesn’t really fit in with the other firemen.
Clever and gutsy, Montag outmaneuvers the Mechanical Hound, however debilitated by a desensitized leg, he is almost keep running over by an auto loaded with deadly high school joyriders. With Faber's help, he grasps his maturing optimism and trusts in getting away to a superior life, one in which difference and exchange recover mankind from its miserable dim age. Purified through water to another life by his dive into the stream and wearing Faber's garments,
The novel's main characters are victims of the violent nature of society. Although he has read many books, Chief Beatty remains a true believe in the benefits of controlled society. Montag is confused, attempting to do the right thing as a firefighter, but soon discovers the benefits of books and knowledge and danger of censorship and an oppressive, violent society. When Montag discovers that his wife, Millie, has turned him in as a criminal, and he is ordered to burn down his own house, the critical, violent confrontation between Montag and Beatty, in which Beatty is killed and his body burned. This is followed by a violent confrontation with the mechanical hound, in which Montag fights for his life and with a leg that feels like "a chunk
Beatty compares Montag to the story of Icarus to show Montag’s character Development. “Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why. Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place?” (p. 113)
Part 1 Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451’s protagonist, Guy Montag, is what can be best described as a reverse-fireman. In his reality, Montag starts fires rather than preventing them. It’s all he knows, in fact, he takes great personal pleasure in starting the fires, and describes those pleasures in depth.
Montag believes that the mechanical hounds or the other firemen will possibly catch him. Montag could of got away with having books until Mildred turns him into the fire station and come to his house in search for the books. Mildred brings out her shallow side in the relationship and does not believe Montag should have books what so ever in the house. Mildred kicked at a book, “ Books aren’t people. You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody” (Bradbury20).
Montag, now frustrated, begins to question his career, his marriage, and the inculcated society he is living in. When Montag begins to take a serious interest in books, he confides in Faber, a former professor who acts as a mentor to Montag. Faber encourages Montag’s change from a respected fireman to an insurgent maverick, as Faber is also different from the population around them. The two men bond over being social outcasts and plot a way to sabotage other firemen by planting books in their homes. After escaping the broken society, Montag meets Granger, a man with the same peculiarity as Montag.
Montag lives with his wife, Mildred, and works as a fireman who burns books along with the houses that they belong to. For Montag, burning books was a pleasure and he convinces himself that he loves his job. But Montag’s character developed more as the story continued on. Events that caused a change in Montag’s personality was when he first talked with Clarisse, when he saw Mildred attempting suicide, when he stole a book while burning a house, when Montag goes to see Faber, and when Montag sees a woman kill herself along with her books.
The plot of the book revolves around the idea of fireman burning books. When Montag goes against this rule, it creates a controversial story. Books
The book follows Guy Montag, a fireman who sets things on fire instead of put out fires. He enjoys his job until on one job an old woman decides to burn with her books rather than evacuate. Haunted by her death, Montag becomes confused on why books would mean so much to anyone. He then decides to find out for himself by reading books from a personal stash of stolen books. Montag has a personal revolution; he realizes the dangers of restricting information and intellectual thought.
Firemen were storming into Montag 's house because they found out he had books. Montag is censoring what he has from the rest of the world by hiding the books. Bradbury also states, ¨We’re book