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Direct Characterization Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451

Have you ever felt almost different from everyone else, but also somehow felt the same? Felt so confused that you become numb? All of these things are felt by Guy Montag. He feels he fits in the society he lives in but he also feels he doesn't. His numbness is a result of not knowing what to do. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a fireman that is far from normal, he burns books for a living in a fireproof community. He was pretty loyal to his job until an unusual girl named Clarisse came around. Clarisse makes Montag start to question his society, why they burn books, and why ever reading a book is bad. He starts to get curious about what is in the books. As Montag transforms he begins to fight and take risks to find out more about books and his society. In the novel, Ray Bradbury uses multiple types of characterization to show how Montag changes from a blank, boring person to a guy who will risk his life for knowledge, finally to a guy who is almost "new" and driven to change the world for the better. …show more content…

On page 2 Bradbury writes, "He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, as long as he remembered." Montag thinks that burning books is okay and being happy to burn peoples work is okay. This quote shows that Montag enjoys the feeling

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