Changes In Fahrenheit 451

Montag’s character changed greatly throughout the book. The walks with Clarisse got him thinking that maybe that he is not thinking at all. Clarisse has been a thinker all of her life because of her family reading the books and all of the knowledge her parents have of the older days. Throughout the book Montag starts to get smarter because Clarisse gets him to start thinking for himself. Clarisse lives with her Mother, Father, and Uncle in the same neighborhood as Montag. She is strange individual compared to everyone else in this book because she reads books and can actual think for herself instead of letting the government think for her. Montag and Clarisse take walks when Montag comes home from work. Every time they talk Montag starts to think a little more and he thinks she gets a little stranger every time. Clarisse knew the past and why books were important so she tried to rub that off on Montag without showing that to get him to think by himself.

When Montag and Clarisse where walking, she had a question “Strange, I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames,” (Page 8). This got Montag to think a little bit. When Clarisse said this Montag started to laugh and she wondered why he was laughing because she had said nothing funny. After that Montag said that she was a strange person and then he started to ask Clarisse questions. This was a turning point for Montag because it made him think a little and that was what he needed to