Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury: Character Analysis

In Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets Faber, a cowardly old man who is trying to change the society’s view on books through Montag. However, Montag realizes that Faber should not be changing the world, and instead should change himself and his cowardly ways. Faber has admitted himself that he is a coward, and requests Montag to carry out his plan for him through a device he created—an earbud, resembling a Seashell earpiece, that receives and sends sound. With this device, Faber planned to “...sit comfortably home, warning my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen’s world, find its weaknesses, without danger” by giving Montag commands through the device—Montag and Faber would become one unit (87). With Faber’s commentary and advice, Montag

Considering the society in Fahrenheit 451 is centered about conformation, Beatty is violently averse to the thought of having conflicting vantage points. Beatty even explains to Montag, a fireman with growing inquiry, about “what traitors books can be” in attempts to deter him from reading. By traitors, Beatty means to express his coming away lost due to authors “all of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.” He argues that rather than challenging people with discovering truth themselves, it is in their best interest to not “give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.” Rather, “Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide rule,

To paraphrase the text, NIghtjohn told Waller he was teaching Sarny how to read and right, not Mammy. This supports the theme because, Nightjohn took the blame for Mammy so she wouldn’t have to get whipped and beaten. My final reason why the theme is one man can change lives is found on page 87. To paraphrase the reading, Sarny had thought John was going to leave and never come back but he did and took her to school. The reason this shows the theme is Sarny had realized how much reading and writing actually meant to John and how he’d risk anything for it.

But you keep wanting me to be more interested in your poems than in you” (Orne). The quote was said by Anne’s therapists. Anne’s therapist was trying express that she is so concerned about what others think of her work. The tapes in this book impact a ‘Confessional Movement.’ Throughout the transcripts of the tapes, Anne Sexton continuously needed her therapist to say she was doing good on her poems. However, her therapist wanted her to see the improvement on herself.

In many of his poems, he gives off a purpose for his writings which is to inform and inspire future readers. He wants to create a sort of relationship with these future readers. One can tell when Whitman wrote in the poem “what have you to confide in me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of a evening”. He tries to make a relationship and agreement with future readers saying that without them, it would just be ink and paper.

Montag hides some books until he finds the courage to read them. He goes from burning books to a book reader, effectively demonstrating his objection towards his society. The society forces people to watch their television instead of going outside or having meaningful conversations. They don’t even have porches“’[…but Clarisse’s] uncle say that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much.

In Fahrenheit 451 the books for the characters were definitely a symbol of feeling in control. The characters being able to read the books, then burn them afterwards made them feel like others didn’t have control over them and their memory and that it’s theirs to keep forever. In WALL-E the plant was a symbol of hope for the characters. Them receiving the boot with the plant in it, let them know it was safe for them to return to Earth where they belong and that they could start a whole new

Poetry and sickness, all that mush”{Bradbury 101}. All that Montag wants is to make the community realize why books are important. How books can help us. Also, how books can make us feel some type of emotion. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 states how Montag read a poem to Mrs. Phelps which she is one of Mildred’s vapid friends.

After Algernon died, Charlie realized that he would start losing intelligence soon. Charlie decided to pick up a book that he used to enjoy, called Paradise Lost, “but when I picked up Paradise Lost I couldn’t understand it at all. I got so angry I threw the book across the room” (Keyes 23). When Charlie throws the book, it demonstrates how frustrated Charlie was because he couldn’t read it. The author also illustrated the level of stressed Charlie had by making Charlie throw the book instead of just being mad at himself.

I wonder if Mark did this because he knew that his books would be all around the world so he wanted to look good. When really he was a very rude person and not enjoyable. If you don 't believe me remember what Mark said about killing the man? This is what he says in a book about himself. "to make my compliments to you, my fellow-teachers of the great public, and likewise to say that I am right glad to see that Doctor Holmes is still in his prime and full of generous life" (Twain 3).