Fahrenheit 451 Movie And Book Comparison Essay

One of the changes was in the characters. Look at Clarisse for example. In the book she was a 16 year old girl who didn’t go to school because people thought that she was “antisocial” and she didn’t fit in. In the movie she is much older she looks to be in her mid 30s and is not a student instead she’s a teacher. But a bigger difference is the fact that she’s alive! In the movie Clarisse survives through the whole thing while in the book Clarisse actually died. Not only this but in the movie they didn’t include Faber. In the book, Faber was a major character. He was one of the only people Montag could talk to and it stated this saying, “Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife;

For example, in the movie Montag was an instructor who was teaching students how to be fireman and he didn’t do this in the book. A lot of things were changed in the movie to fit some of the arrangements they did to the characters. This is proven when Clarisse calls in Montag sick for work instead of Beatty coming to Montag’s house and asking why he wasn’t at work. Though there were many scenes that were added to the movie that were not included in the book, there were also scenes in the book that they didn’t include in the movie. One scene that they left out of the movie was the bombing. At the end of the book, there was a bombing on the city because of the war that was going on. The text said,”Montag held the bombs in the sky for a single moment, with his mind and his hands reaching helplessly up at them. "Run!" he cried to Faber. To Clarisse, "Run!" To Mildred, "Get out, get out of there! " But Clarisse, he remembered, was dead. And Faber was out; there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a.m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another”. In the movie there was no bombing. There wasn’t any mention of a war at